How would you PP this ?

[sashbar]

I like this portrait of my daughter, snapped in a cafe, but the green tilt is killing me. I tried to get rid of it but it only makes the whole picture worse. Just shifting the color balance does not really work. What instruments would you use ?

 

[The_Traveler]

I think the most annoying green is on her neck and then her right arm.
on a dup layer I used quickmask mode to paint out the areas that didn't seem affected with a large soft brush then made a layer mask revealing the affected areas.
Then I used a color balance layer and a saturation layer for greens only both set as with clipping mask.
It came out decently well, she looked good and the other green areas weren't so obnoxious.

 

[Designer]

I like this portrait of my daughter, snapped in a cafe, but the green tilt is killing me.

I see the greenish areas, but if that is the only thing that bothers you, what about her pose/expression?

That doesn't bother you?

Just a little bit?

 

[Derrel]

The most-annoying things are the pale tangerine-colored painted objects and the white rope on the very left side of the frame--those are horribly distracting. He body positioning is VERY wide, spanning most of the frame, which is....the way it actually was, at that second. But whatever that stuff on the left is, it NEEDS to be cropped away, since it is just killing the shot.

Lew's right: that green-tinged arm and neck skin is awful, especially with the tangerine colored stuff in the background. The table is also severely green-tinged on the left side. This entire shot is a color nightmare.

I say, crop off the left side, and then convert to B&W. No matter how this shot is cropped, due to the unusual positioning she was in, this shot is not going to be an A-list shot. it's a nice memory for you I would guess, but the shot has some fundamentals issues that cannot be overcome, only minimized.

 

[sashbar]

I like this portrait of my daughter, snapped in a cafe, but the green tilt is killing me.

I see the greenish areas, but if that is the only thing that bothers you, what about her pose/expression?

That doesn't bother you?

Just a little bit?

I think the most annoying green is on her neck and then her right arm.
on a dup layer I used quickmask mode to paint out the areas that didn't seem affected with a large soft brush then made a layer mask revealing the affected areas.
Then I used a color balance layer and a saturation layer for greens only both set as with clipping mask.
It came out decently well, she looked good and the other green areas weren't so obnoxious.
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Thanks Lew, I will try it. I am not really good with levels though, to be honest.

 

[sashbar]

I like this portrait of my daughter, snapped in a cafe, but the green tilt is killing me.

I see the greenish areas, but if that is the only thing that bothers you, what about her pose/expression?

That doesn't bother you?

Just a little bit?

I know what you mean, bit kids have hundreds of faces, I already have dozens of smiley-smiley, happy-happy etc etc, this is a different one. Kind of "Gawd, him again". As I said I like it.

 

[Gary A.]

Go B&W. Then crop to the top of the chair/bench/seat. And what Derrel said.

 

[bribrius]

lol!!!'


I get that look from my kids too!!!!!

 

[e.rose]

You would *have* to mask that. You can't do a global edit to that. There is something in that environment casting that green light, so you've got a lot of color mixing going on there.

Or, like Gary said, you could go B&W.

 

[Borad]

Unfortunately you have the "my photos are NOT OK to edit" option selected so I can't show you what I did but I used all global edits and I think I improved it. I lowered the green, lowered the red just slightly, lowered the saturation, and increased the contrast. I'm sure a mask would work better but I did it quickly. I don't have Photoshop.

 

[sashbar]

Unfortunately you have the "my photos are NOT OK to edit" option selected so I can't show you what I did but I used all global edits and I think I improved it. I lowered the green, lowered the red just slightly, lowered the saturation, and increased the contrast. I'm sure a mask would work better but I did it quickly. I don't have Photoshop.

OK, go ahead. You can edit this one, no problemo. Thank you.

 

[Borad]

I'm not sure whether this is good enough, but here's what I can do with global edits using Irfanview. Original on top. green: -16, red: -6, saturation: -40, contrast: 5, then I resized and sharpened because resizing blurs it, then I decided to make the color temperature slightly warmer.

 

[e.rose]

I'm not sure whether this is good enough, but here's what I can do with global edits using Irfanview. Original on top. green: -16, red: -6, saturation: -40, contrast: 5, then I resized and sharpened because resizing blurs it, then I decided to make the color temperature slightly warmer.

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There's still a green cast on her arms, side of her nose and neck. It's just not as *strong* now... and now you also have an overall magenta cast to the whole photo.

You really can't fix this with global editing.

Globally some green needs to be brought out to balance the overall photo, but the seriously green parts of her arm, neck, and nose need to be taken care of locally, using masks and what not.

One quick global editing that would fix this, would be simply killing the color... as previously mentioned.

 

[Borad]

Photoshop the cover of the book to say "The History of Magenta." Then people will think the pages are reflecting the color to her skin.

 

[sashbar]

OK, as Derrel says "cropped the living sh1t" out of it. Got rid of tints but B&W highlights the poor lighting and actually robbs the image of something that nakes me want to keep it. But this is the daughter-dad-family thing, nothing to do with portraiture as such.

So I am going to end up with this one. Elbow is too pronounced with this crop, and color is dodgy but I can live with it:

Thanks for your input guys, you are awesome, as always.