Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 01:47:44 -0000 From: "Paul Lawrence"
Two friends of mine who are shooting a number of schools (usual
individual pictures and class groups). They have worked successfully
with the D30s on graduations shooting JPEGS on the camera's flash colour
balance setting. This is the first time the schools job has been shot
digitally and they are troubled with a strong yellow colour cast to the
skin tones. Bowens and Elinchrom flash units and three D30 bodies are
giving the same results. They have to shoot RAW and individually process
every shot through Photoshop's new plug in to get acceptable skin tones
and that is taking far too long.
Are they making use of the batch features in Photoshop? In their situation I would open an image and check the 'Only open this dialog when the Option/Alt key is held down' and click OK. That will set Camera Raw with the capability to operate in Batch mode. Now open one of the images to be processed. Record as an action a typical portrait using the standard lighting and make any colour temperature, tint and saturation adjustments. Save the final image as a Tiff or PSD, whatever.
This recorded action can be used to batch convert all the raw files, so when your friends come back to the computer after the processing is complete, they should have a folder of say, Tiff images, identically processed and ready to work on in Photoshop. If camera raw controls are not adjusting the colour OK, then try adding an extra step - go to Hue/Saturation, choose the 'Yellows' colour selection and adjust the hue slider 5% to shift the yellows more towards magenta. Or whatever looks right. But remember that to get back to automatically seeing the Camera Raw dialog, the Option key now has to be held down, or reset back to the way it was before.
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