Software for color balance of JPEG's?

[kshapero]

What are folks favorite software to regain color balance when shooting color film indoors with artificial light? Don't always have time to use a filter. So need good software to correct color with JPEG scans.

[mabelsound]

Lightroom 2!

[Mcary]

Here a link to a Photoshop tutorial by Scott Kelby that may do what you need http://www.layersmagazine.com/photographytester_color_correctingphp.html
To save time on multiple shot taken in the same condition just record an action.

[payasam]

GIMP, both Linux and Windows.

[kshapero]

Here a link to a Photoshop tutorial by Scott Kelby that may do what you need http://www.layersmagazine.com/photographytester_color_correctingphp.html
To save time on multiple shot taken in the same condition just record an action.
I would need Photoshop to do this.

[mabelsound]

Here a link to a Photoshop tutorial by Scott Kelby that may do what you need http://www.layersmagazine.com/photographytester_color_correctingphp.html
To save time on multiple shot taken in the same condition just record an action.

Thanks for that link!

[Mcary]

I would need Photoshop to do this.

True, Maybe some one can chime in as to whither you can do the same thing or close to it using GIMP.

[Sparrow]

Here a link to a Photoshop tutorial by Scott Kelby that may do what you need http://www.layersmagazine.com/photographytester_color_correctingphp.html
To save time on multiple shot taken in the same condition just record an action.

Now there’s someone that needs to use “auto-colour” and get on with life

:)

[rxmd]

What are folks favorite software to regain color balance when shooting color film indoors with artificial light? Don't always have time to use a filter. So need good software to correct color with JPEG scans.

Photoshop.

GIMP would do the job, too, and on Windows so would Paint.NET (http://www.paint.net/).

[mabelsound]

Photoshop.

GIMP would do the job, too, and on Windows so would Paint.NET (http://www.paint.net/).

I just discovered Paint.NET the other day...wow, I love it. It does indeed have a good RGB curve section, and is very, VERY fast.

[alexz]

Here a link to a Photoshop tutorial by Scott Kelby that may do what you need http://www.layersmagazine.com/photographytester_color_correctingphp.html
To save time on multiple shot taken in the same condition just record an action.

Scanning my recent negs I noticed quite evident purple cast on them, so searched the forum for a remedy hints in PS. Noticed your post and tried Scott's approach - I figure it doesn't really fixes the color casts but rather sets white and black points.
Do I get it wrong ?
Visually, while setting white point, the image just gets adjusted in perms of brightness but the cast almost entirely remains...

[lorenzo1910]

@alexz
try this: http://tricks.onigo.net/guides/2005/08/remove-color-cast-step-by-step.html

[batterytypehah!]

Really? I'm not very skilled in post-processing but that looks very convoluted to me. Get the white eyedropper, click in the picture, type values into two fields, now click again, hit Return, all without moving your mouse...

Don't you get the same result if you use the gray eyedropper and simply click in the picture on a spot that should be gray?

Also, I find that the text is poorly written. It conflates "the sock is white" with "the sock should appear white." A white sock in the shade appears gray, not white.

[Dwig]

What are folks favorite software to regain color balance when shooting color film indoors with artificial light? Don't always have time to use a filter. So need good software to correct color with JPEG scans.

Personally, I avoid JPEGs like the plague.

I do my own scans, scanning directly into PS as 16bit images via my scanner's Twain interface and making the bulk of the corrections in the scanning software. That leaves only minor final tweaking to be done in PS and its done with 16bit files and not 8bit.

I generally shoot RAW, but when I'm forced to work with JPEGs (faster camera operation, someone else's images, ...) I correct problem files by opening them in PS through Adobe Camera RAW and do the bulk of the corrections there before passing the image into PS itself.