Chapter 9. Color Correction

Color Correction

Digital Artist: Robert Bowen; Photographer: Steve Bronstein

 

The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.

 
 --Oscar Wilde in Lillie

In the previous chapter, “Color Management,” we learned how to make colors consistent among our various devices (monitor, scanner, printer, camera, and so on). In this chapter, we're dealing with color correction, which is an entirely separate matter. This chapter is all about controlling the colors in your image and getting rid of colorcasts that might be having an adverse effect on the final result.

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