Change highlight colour tones

[Rose NW]

I'd be interested in ideas for the most effective way of tweaking the colour/tone of the highlights down the centre of the chair (see attached image) caused by yellowish light above?  Any other critique (with solutions) also welcome!

[Just Shoot Me]

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Thanks.

[Just Shoot Me]

Are you looking to get ride of the shadows from the pillows?

I suspect that tripod is holding some kind of lighting?

IMHO you need better lighting, maybe not better but more lighting. Something to place light on the front of the chair.

You could try using the Camera RAW filter in PS and do a Auto adjustment. And then use the Adjustment brush. Here is what I did in just a few minute in LR Classic. Which has the same feature set as the Camera RAW filter in PS and or in the ACR plugin called by Bridge.

This is after I used the Auto option in the Basic panel and used 2 control point for the adjustment brush but before I went back to the Basic panel and did an Over all Exposure raise.

This is after the over all exposure raise.

All of that is Quick and Dirty so with more time and a better, larger, image size, in both File Size and Pixel dimension, it could be better.

But in the end more/better lighting would solve 99% of the problems.

[Lumigraphics]

With this example, I woulde just reduce the yellow saturation to zero. See if that helps.

[Chuck Uebele]

You could add a layer above it and set the blend mode to color, then paint the color you want, sampled from the chair.

Or you could use frequency separation to separate out the texture of the chair, then use the mixer brush to blend in the color of the rest of the chair.

Or you could use color range and select the offending pixels that are yellow and use curves to bring them inline with the blues. Lots of ways to do this.

[NB, colourmanagement]

The Hue/Saturation dalog is where I'd start

I'd actually make a hue/ saturation adjustment layer  [layer / new adjustment layer / hue saturation]

select any colour from the pulldown list to get a "selective colour" operation, say blue

now if you alter hue wildly [temporarily!] you can see what are is being selected and, therefore, adjusted 

set the sliders back to a zero.

now use the eyedropper with the + to select the problem area 

change the hue slider to reduce yellow

this is one easy way of using a smooth edged selection (based on the original colour) to localise adjustment 

if too great an area is being adjusted after your + click, a - click in an unwanted area of adjustment will reduce the selected area (based on the original colour).

I usually try the wild hue adjustment again. just so I definitely see all the areas where adjustment is happening

The adjustment layer is better than a simple adjustment for may reasons, you can mask areas you want to exclude from the adjustment, 

you can alter the overall layer effect to reduce the correction if you'd like to

if you save a file with the layers intact you can go back later an readjust without damaging the image

and yeah, better lighting would help too

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

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[Rose NW]

Thank you very much - lots of useful suggestions to experiment with!