My Grandson Oliver

[Karenp]

I'm not actually a 'baby' person but I have to say that I'm smitten. 

[kev7d]

He is a real cute one. Nice catch.

[ChrisLumix]

Very cute baby! 

 

(You might want to reduce the green/yellow cast on the left hand side?)

[Karenp]

Very cute baby! 

 

(You might want to reduce the green/yellow cast on the left hand side?)

I can see that it would be better to lose it a bit and I would do it if I knew how!

I don't have photoshop 

[ChrisLumix]

I can see that it would be better to lose it a bit and I would do it if I knew how!

I don't have photoshop 

 

Best left then - if you used a simple graphics program (like iPhoto or Picasa) to adjust the colour, you'd lose the left hand cast at the expense of making the right hand side too magenta. It really needs a layer based program, or at the least, one that lets you make local adjustments using brushes, such as ACR.

[PaulT]

What a pair of eyes! 

[Cathy]

Awh! What a beautiful little bundle of love he is! :)

[Karenp]

Hi Karen

 

Lovely little boy

 

Hope you don't mind - I've just taken the yellow down a bit as Chris suggests.  On laptop so it's quite small and not sure of colour balance.

 

I've got a large version, if you'd like it.

 

Judy

 

PS - I think The Gimp has layers and is free. I've not used it but ome people really like it.

Thank You Judy that's very kind of you. Yes please!

[Craftysnapper]

A real cutie Karen, I still think the colour balance  is not right even on the edits so here is mine plus a few other tweeks done in Elements 12.

 

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[Craftysnapper]

paul - our edited version looks a lot better on my other monitor - did you change it after posting 

Nope just re-uploaded it I use a batch resize which puts my copyright on and forgot to disable that part it it would never do to have my copyright on someone elses image.

 

By the way my monitor is calibrated with a Spyder but have not run it for month so it may be a little off but I don't think so, I'm seeing a green cast in your edit..

[Craftysnapper]

I'd think about a new laptop for editing then..the numbers don't lie regardless of what you see on screen.

 

Your image

[Craftysnapper]

I don't edit in colour very often on the this laptop - but the calibration I've used seemed to be fine last time I did it. I certainly see the strong yellow/green cast in Karen's original.

 

Could you put up three samplers, please - from Karen's original, from my first edit and from yours. I'm just interested to see what I'm seeing on the laptop.

 

What Spyder do you recommend?  I see Amazon have one for £39

 

Sure no prob,I just use the basic Datacolour Spyder4 for what I do.

[ChrisLumix]

A real cutie Karen, I still think the colour balance  is not right even on the edits so here is mine plus a few other tweeks done in Elements 12.

 

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I think the colour is absolutely right there - but it's a little 'blown'? The Levels could do with taking back just a little.

[Karenp]

Thank you for helping me get him just right everyone. I only with that I had the knowledge to do it myself. But I so appreciate the input