[Jewelry making - Article 00708] - Re: [Orchid] Photographing Jewelry 101

[Rita M]

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Hi Chris,

    I just discovered the trick recently from a tutorial on the
    internet... it was so easy, I could have kicked myself at all time I
    wasted before I knew it. 

    - click on ctrl-L so the levels dialog box pops up. 

    - There are 3 eye-droppers on the right hand side... click on the
    right eye dropper 

    - now click on something that's white 

    Photoshop will now set what you clicked to white, and alter the rest
    of the colours to match. 

    I haven't experimented much with it... but it's been working pretty
    well. I assume the left eye-dropper is black, and the middle eye
    dropper grey... what level of grey, i'm not sure. 

    Dave Arens had a suggestion below that he got from Wayne Emery...
    put a little piece of 18% grey in the corner, and use that as the
    'colour' reference. I expect that would work better, since any
    "white" would have a shade of it's own anyway. (And I noticed that my
    photos do still have some odd purple-blue colour casts... but then
    who knows if it's the photo or the monitor!) 

    Now to figure out how to make photoshop use that '18% gray' as a
    reference... I'll have to check back with google on that. 

rita.

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