Although I do use the histogram it's obviously not enough. This is
certainly not the first time you've pointed out problems due to a
clipped color channel. I don't even think to look for it in someone
else's image.
Chuck Norcutt
On 8/28/2011 6:29 PM, Moose wrote:
> On 8/28/2011 1:52 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>> I like both of them. But, like a previous one on the orange
>> Cosmos flower, busy bee seems to have a color balance problem with
>> the orange dominating everything. I worked a couple minutes on the
>> previous one to see if I could make it look better but couldn't.
>> Never did figure out what's wrong with it other than my eyes.
>
> The major problem is considerable clipping in the red channel. The
> image doesn't look all that bright, so clipping may not immediately
> come to mind, but it's sure there.
>
> Our eyes know when something like that is off, even if our brains
> don't know why. The colors in the flower are flattened, with little
> natural variation in brightness. It can be largely recovered with the
> Highlight tool in PS. Color looks much more natural, although
> probably not quite what an unclipped image would show.
> <http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/Others/Nichols/Busy_Bee_001.htm>
>
> Just correcting the blocked red channel brought the bee to much more
> natural colors, but I also adjusted it individually to help it stand
> out and look 'bee' color.
>
> Bee Moose
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