Red looks Pink

[dtmpower]

I took several pictures at today's Breakfast Club.

Here is a slight problem I have. The red in my pictures has come out in a pinky shade. I have Gimp or Picasa to touch them up. Any suggestions on the best way to fix it ?

[d1d215]

what camera is that ?

[JSS 911]

had a quick play in cs4 , but no expert as you can see if you have selection in gimp select the car and play with adjustments

[andy-xr]

Move the hue and up the saturation if you have those as options

[dtmpower]

d1d215 said:

what camera is that ?

Fuji S2000HD - it's only RED it seems to have a problem with

[dtmpower]

JSS 911 said:

had a quick play in cs4 , but no expert as you can see if you have selection in gimp select the car and play with adjustments

looks much better - how did you remove my shadows?

[rlw]

dtmpower said:

I took several pictures at today's Breakfast Club.

Here is a slight problem I have. The red in my pictures has come out in a pinky shade. I have Gimp or Picasa to touch them up. Any suggestions on the best way to fix it ?

Theres no problem with the photo - that car has been out in the sun too long

[d1d215]

seems expensive enough camera to produce good colors, but the whole pic look ridiculous. You should really check your settings, overexposure for example.

[JimNotJon]

I'd say it isn't helping with the sun directly behind you. Some cameras' are better than others picking up on reds.

[GetCarter]

dtmpower said:

Here is a slight problem I have.

A tad more than slight methinks!

[AndyKH]

Several ways of doing this, for this pic i did Image>Adjustment>Selective colour then tweaked the red channel.

[AndyKH]

Several ways of doing this, for this pic i did Image>Adjustment>Selective colour then tweaked the red channel.

[Zad]

I think what has happened is that the red channel on the sensor has saturated, but the green and blue are still picking up reflected light from the blue sky. This has the effect that the red is a relatively low value. Unfortunately on phones and cheap compacts when you set it to underexpose all it does is dim the digital value after it has been read out of the sensor, making the pink look even muddier. Experiment to find out

[Simpo Two]

Zad said:

I think what has happened is that the red channel on the sensor has saturated

That defines nicely what I was thinking. It seems that reds are always the first thing to go wrong!

[St. Anger]

Sorry for the thread ressurection, but this was the first link on google believe it or not!

I've been messing about with my wee Fujifilm S1730 for a few months now and am quite comfortable with the basics, but when looking back through some photos of the MX5 it has been pointed out to me that it has taken on a lovely pink shade in some of the photos;


DSCF3142 by St_Anger1, on Flickr

Obviously, the paint isn't as good as the day it rolled out the factory, but it's not really noticably faded in real life and the red is a much deeper colour than the photos make out. I know that this can be edited using photoshop and stuff, but is there any way of changing a setting on the camera (like the white balance or something) to make it take them properly?

[andy-xr]

Underexpose it slightly is about as much as you can do really before you start editing it