Colour correction

[Twilkes]

We've got a photo of water taken at Lake Geneva that we want to print onto acrylic, as it matches the colours in our lounge. But someone pointed out the slightly grey/blue areas in the lower left corner ("are those fish?") and now it's starting to bug me.

How would I go about colour correcting the photo to reduce the blue/grey but leave the turquoise alone - is it even possible, or are the tones too close to work on them in isolation?

[Morbid]

Might be easier to clone out, rather than colour correct. Do you have PS?

[Simpo Two]

Try making it black and white, then adding the colour you like back in artificially (Photoshop).

I think the grey bits are reflections of sky.

[Twilkes]

I don't have PS so would be looking to use freeware. Actually, I do have Sony Vegas 9.0 which has plenty of colour balancing/filtering plug-ins and even colour frequency scopes and stuff like that - will see if that does what I need it to.

I may just live with it, like I said I hadn't even noticed it until someone pointed it out.

Edited by Twilkes on Saturday 15th August 18:30

[Beggarall]

Looking at this I think you will find there are quite a lot of grey lights in there. A b&w conversion and recolour will work but it may not look as nice. Show us what you you come up with. Gimp (free) is an alternative to Photoshop for this sort of thing but there are lots of other free editors available.

[Pixel Pusher]

PS has a colour range mask tool. Selected the offending tint, adjusted the neutrals and finally used the healing tool on the odd surface reflections.