Neutralizing Color Casts With The Photo Filter
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Written By Steve Patterson
In this Photoshop photo editing tutorial, we're going to look at how to quickly neutralize a color cast in a photo using Photoshop's Photo Filter adjustment.
Here's the image I'll be using for this tutorial, which has quite an obvious orange color cast:
Here's how it will look after removing the color cast with the Photo Filter:
Let's get started.
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Step 1: Add A Photo Filter Adjustment Layer
With the image open in Photoshop, the first thing we need to do is add a Photo Filter adjustment layer. To do that, click on the New Adjustment Layer icon at the bottom of the Layers palette:
Then select Photo Filter from the list:
This will bring up the Photo Filter dialog box:
Step 2: Sample The Color You Want To Remove From The Image
Click on the color swatch to the right of the word "Color" in the Photo Filter dialog box:
This will bring up Photoshop's Color Picker:
Rather than choosing a color from inside the Color Picker, move your mouse over the image, and you'll see your mouse cursor change into the Eyedropper icon. We're going to sample the color that's giving us our problem. To do that, click on an area inside the image where the problem color is most noticeable. I'm going to click on the horse's mane to sample the orange color:
Don't exit out of the Color Picker yet. We're going to use it to invert the sampled color next.
