Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Douglas That's what I assumed as well. I fiddled with the flag/candle shot and it looked much better. Still, there are some serious issues to be concerned about. I just read Leica's press release and was not encouraged. It could easily have come from the Bush White House and that's not an exaggeration. Walt Douglas Sharp wrote: > Tina, Walt, > Photoshop can! Well very nearly. > Try Hue/Saturation - select red and shift the hue to around +30, then > go to magenta and shift it to the same value, play about with the > magenta saturation until it looks right (about + 8) . It gets close to > the "true" Canon colours (with the exception of the yellow fringe on > the flag). There is a slight residual yellowish cast that shouldn't be > too hard to get rid of. > This does however imply that something is VERY much off track in the > colour spectrum. > To those more expert out there - how do you convert these values to a > custom PS Filter? > Douglas > > > Walt Johnson wrote: > >> Tina >> >> I though Photoshop could correct just about any color shift? I was >> trying with the Underwater filter and it seemed to help. >> >> >> Walt >> >> Tina Manley wrote: >> >>> At 08:26 AM 12/21/2006, you wrote: >>> >>>> Please note that changing WB after the fact cannot fix the IR >>>> problems--the IR contamination shifts the colors of objects >>>> differently, depending on how much they reflect IR. Synthetic black >>>> goes to magenta. Synthetic green goes to gray, and so forth. >>>> >>>> Mark Davison >>> >>> >>> >>> Right, Mark! I've discovered that no amount of color balancing in >>> photoshop can correct the strange colors. Capture One seems to do >>> the best job with the Leica DNG files but it's still way off. I >>> hope the IR filters will correct this and am encouraged to find out >>> that they don't cut the light any. >>> >>> Tina >>> >>> Tina Manley, ASMP, NPPA >>> http://www.tinamanley.com >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >