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Originally Posted by Buster Narum
Anyway, if any of the other people who like to re-touch these photos are interested, a separate thread on techniques would be very helpful.
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One problem, as you discovered with Oliver and Dr. Strangeglove is that no one thing works equally on all photos.
If I'm doing a quickie fix, I go through iPhoto and just juice up the blue as far as I need to. Sometimes I run it through twice...just juicing up the blue (iPhoto has a simplistic color balance with just Blue/Yellow and Red/Green; I don't touch the red at all). Now...that's just for a quickie fix. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.
But, if I
really want to "fix" the images, I find the only way to go is to work on each piece individually (down, even, to doing the whites of the eyes separately). I do that in GIMP, where you can lasso the elements you want to work on. And GIMP has numerous tools for color balance, hue, saturation, brightness, et. al. Even then, flesh tones are problematic. And, sometimes, you put in all that effort and still end up with a mess.