Partial Filter

[okyou]

Hello Everyone,

Can anyone give me some recommendation how to filter out the blueish color in center of the following photo ?

Thanks

[TimW]

I tried this:

Hue/Sat/Lightness
Blue -100
Cyan -35

Highlight/Midtone/Shadow
Highlight -39

Hue/Sat/Lightness
Reset previous settings
Saturation +19

[Jean-Luc]

Promote Background Layer.
Create a raster layer under the Background layer. Fill it with color R160 G85 B50. You may choice a less reddish color.
Duplicate the raster layer with the image. Place it under the layer with filled color.
In the Layers Palette, you have now 3 layers:
1. Original image (on top)
2. Raster layer with color
3. Duplicated original image
Activate the top layer and change its Blend Mode to Soft Light. The image is now brownish.
Right-click on this layer and Merge Down.
Set the Blend Mode of the Merged Down layer to Hard Light and Opacity 50.
Layer Merge Down.
Local Tone Mapping / Strength 2 to 4.
Hue/Saturation/Lightness -> Edit: Master -> Saturation -30.
You get this:

[okyou]

Such a good idea ! Really thanks

[okyou]

Hello Jean-Luc,

Thanks for helping me out. I have one more request hope you can give me some pointer how to resolve the following problem.

How can I remove the shadow on the upper part of the monument so the whole piece look uniform ?

Thanks again

[Jean-Luc]

Not easy...

Follow those steps.
Some tools react differently when the image is bigger (when applying on your original file). You may adjust the settings.
My steps are indicative and may be modified.

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[Jean-Luc]

I am painting the yellowwish cast with grey (stone color):

Lighten the dark area (don't drag the cursor but apply only with single clicks):

I get this after removing the white spot:

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[okyou]

Your solution really reduce the shadow to an acceptable level. Thanks a lot. Also are you the author of the PSP cookbook ?

[Jean-Luc]

Also are you the author of the PSP cookbook ?

Yes.

[okyou]

Too bad it is not in ebook.

[okyou]

Hello Jean-Luc,

Your method of filtering the sun reflection works excellent for me. However, sometimes when the reflection is too strong, your method filtered out about 70% of the reflection, which is very good. I wonder you have any trick to removed more ? For example:
Original

After applying your method.

Is there anyway to reduce the reflection further ?
Thanks for your help.

[Jean-Luc]

It seems you have dust on the frontal lens of your camera (circular blurry spots on your photo). The central flare is a sun reflection inside the optical.

To avoid that defect: place a sun visor on your camera. If not possible, make a sun visor with your hand to prevent direct sunlight to touch the lens. Or stay under an umbrella or in the shadow of a building when you shot a subject in backlight situation.

I made the correction manually with a single tool: Burn Brush set to Opacity: 22, Hardness: 0, Continuous: Unchecked, Limit: Shadow and Smart Edge: unchecked.

[okyou]

Thanks a LOT ! I never realized the burn tool can be used in this way. Excellent.

[okyou]

Hello Jean-luc

In the second example, in the last step you say you use stone white to paint over, did you just use paint brush ? what blend mode did you use so only change the color and nothing else ? Did use the same paint brush to paint over the white spot too ?
Thanks

[Jean-Luc]

Hello Jean-luc
In the second example, in the last step you say you use stone white to paint over, did you just use paint brush ? what blend mode did you use so only change the color and nothing else ? Did use the same paint brush to paint over the white spot too ?
Thanks

I use the Dropper tool to get the grey color of the stone (approx in the left area, third of height).
The name of the paint tool is visible on top of the screen capture.

The white spot is removed by cloning.