You are lucky to have low-resolution scans of these same photos with good color balance. But imagine if you didn't. Then you would have to color correct without knowing what the other same photo with

I used to wonder how to color correct people's old Polaroids and Instamatic color photos before personal computers were invented. Now it's iPhone photos. The answer is new tools, new processes, and ne

There is a demonstration here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IujZ_RJ61w Hector Davila

#file-notice

I think it's a pretty good program for artist who want to convert a pencil sketch into vector. There are lots of artist who would like to see their drawings on a computer screen. Most of these artist

You need to make the clouds look ...more realistic. Hector Davila

I see I need to learn 'color correction by the numbers'. So, I will try and gather all info I can find and maybe.. make my own 'color correction by the numbers for Dummies'. https://documents.sessions

Mines is number 1016. Since there was a lot of Red in the photo...my focus was all the other colors, blue, green, yellow. The girl has a light Blue collar on her left. I tried to increase the Blue col

"Auto Tone", not Auto Levels. Dan Margulis said "Auto Tone". Hector Davila

I understand that it looks like a sunset photo, but since it is a sunrise photo (and it appears the sun is trying to burst through the cloudy day clouds) it appears to me that the sun is above the hor

Yes, I noticed the Yamaha synthesizer was the wrong color, and that would require me to work the entire foreground and read chapter 3 of Modern Photoshop Color Workflow. I simply stop working on the p

Mines is #711. It appears most of the light is coming from behind the choir. (most of these church type photos have dark, not too light interiors. Dim like.) So, I hesitated to make the choir brighter

Dan's comments are like the Leonard Bernstein of Color Correction. I don't know if yous have seen Leonard Bernstein conducts West Side Story, but when the music stops... everyone waits to see what the

The smartphone is a photo album. Everybody is walking around with a photo album in their pocket. (thousand of photos) I never seen so many people just looking at photos every minute, hour, every day o

Mines is #401. The majority of pictures I get with people in beach backgrounds is people who want to be able to see...themselves, in the picture. So, I make the person as bright as possible because...

#case-study-results

If by "Group Exercise" you mean Case Studies...it reads "E-mail it to me, dmargulis (at) aol.com" . Just change the (at) to @ *When finished, save in JPEG form, quality level 9. E-mail it to me, dmarg

Mines is 336. My goal was to sell this concert by giving it a bright sunny day. (nobody will attend a concert if the photo looks grey with a chance of rain.) So I did a Curves White point on the kid s

Mines is 336. I didn't see any color problems, just brightness problems. So I did a Curves White point on the kid staring at the camera, on his t-shirt arm. Moving down his shoulder arm t-shirt until

Well of course you can make the dress Blue or Black (but I have no idea what Color Dan would pick.) But, I see a lot of color photographs prints where people with black hair it comes out blue. Are all

Mines is number 232. Of course Colors is what is most important to bring out first. (since the colors appear to be washed out on the three women) So, I focused on the little boy and the woman behind h

Mines is # 115 Product and landscape is not my forte. So, I just want to make it pop. The client might exclaim, "What the hell happen! Why did you make the marble Blue?? Can you make the marble grey?"