Help with color cast

[hmreyna]

I shot a session last night and this little boy had on a shirt that really put a color cast on his face. Most of them aren't this bad, but I love this picture. You can really see it strongly in this picture << right on his neck. Does anyone know how I could remove this other than cloning? I tried taking out the red but it seemed to actually make it a stronger color cast.

 

[tirediron]

Select the effect area and dial down the red channel. Convert to monochrome.

 

[hmreyna]

Okay, dialed down the red channel a bit but how to I convert to monochrome? I checked the box below but it turned it some weird off color.

 

[hmreyna]

Such cute pictures but the color casts on all of them are driving me crazy.

 

[waday]

If you allow editing of your photos, people may be able to play with them to help you better.

Are you in Lightroom or Photoshop?

 

[hmreyna]

Okay, I can allow people to edit, I don't mind. I use both but prefer to edit in Photoshop. I adjust in Lightroom the exposure, color, etc then move to Photoshop.

 

[waday]

Okay, I can allow people to edit, I don't mind. I use both but prefer to edit in Photoshop. I adjust in Lightroom the exposure, color, etc then move to Photoshop.

You still have your settings listed as "Photos NOT OK to edit", but based on your statement, here's a quick edit from Lightroom. PS would probably be better...

This is what I did in LR:

• Go to Color
  • Red
    • Hue: +35
    • Saturation: -23
  • Magenta (to get rid of some of the fringing around the flowers in front of him)
    • Saturation: -65
• Create adjustment brush around his lips
  • Saturation: +38

ETA: In PS, you could easily select the area and try something similar, but, IMO, that still might leave his shirt a little too saturated.

 

[hmreyna]

WOW!! Thank you so much for this!! Going to try it now!!! WOO hoo!!

 

[hmreyna]

Worked amazing!!! Thank you for your help!!

 

[waday]

Glad I could help!