red skin in some of my photos at my vacation. help plz!

Wait, I'll upload it to my homepage. or my old homepage so to speak

The really odd thing is, that pic I posted came out very red, but I picture my girl shoot with another camera, maybe 20 min later, it did not came out looking all red.

http://www.geocities.com/condor123456/1.JPG

Can you get anyone out of my picture? Or am I hopeless ;)

hehe while my advice remains good for general things to do before correcting other problems, as you may have noticed it is not much good for this problem.

What you need to do is make a selective colour adjustment layer.

draw a very rough lasso around the worse affected areas (I have only done your face and not your hands) and then commit that selection to a new layer (Ctrl+J).

Add a the selective colour adjustment layer (you will see that it commits it to a channel)

I decreased both the yellow and the magenta in the reds to give a slightly more accurate skin colour. Obviously you can really make your skin any colour you want at this stage.

The areas that you have missed or want included can be easily touched up using the brush on the mask (black and white thumbnail in layers pallatte)

I only did a quick and dirty version, but with a bit of patience you could get a far better result

http://www.thehermit.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/images/lighter.jpg

Sorry to the moderators, I can see now that you don't like pictures directly on the forum (I presume for space reasons etc)

Sorry will try to provide links in future

Well I'll try to see what I can do. The pic you did looks terrible if you ask me, worse than before. ;) but thanx anyhow.

lol theres gratitude for ya! ;)

Just looked back at mine and it does look worse, probably a lil too light and a lil noisy. I used the high pass filter on a copy of the underlying layer which only hightened the noise etc.

The Principal for the selective colour adj layer holds true though.

*tries desperately not to mention the blurry photo* ;)

You can do a simple color adjustement too. Press CTRL B and you can play with the RGB channels. It's much less complicated and the results can be awesome..

later