Correcting a photo whose subject is a colored light.

Hello, I followed Dag's detective work.

Here is a quick and dirty work (selecting with the pen tool might be cleaner):

\In the channels, I quick-selected the entire speaker on the green channel, pasted it on the red one, to recover the blown-out edge on the red channel.

I inverted the selection, copied the blue channel, therefore besides the speaker, into the green channel.

Ah, the magic of chops...

Here it is:

 IMG_8498quick.jpg

Still, you would be better shooting it again, making sure not to blow the highlights, (maybe meter on the highlighs, or use some negative EV...) Then, if needed, using maybe the highlight and white sliders in ACR. (I was about to type the long gone recovery slider.)

One more thought

is that yellow area a reflection perhaps,

if its not matte already, maybe a very matte surface would help 

neil

I think you're perhaps going to have to correct this anomaly with a 'hue and saturation' adjustment layer, targeting the bright orange and making it red

(first choose any colour in the pulldown list, then using the + & - eyedroppers - then check the selected area by temporarily applying a crazy adjustment - I guess you already knew all that?).

Camera sensors often "see" quite differently to the human eye in many cases. It's just one of those frustrating things with technology being imperfect. You MIGHT, though, get all red by significantly underexposing? then combine 2 images. Or try a different camera?

I hope this helps

if so, please "like" my reply and if you're OK now, please mark it as "correct", so that others who have similar issues can see the solution

thanks

neil barstow, colourmanagement.net :: adobe forum volunteer

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So you are just trying to change yellow to red?