> I have a couple of digital pictures with really brittle water > reflections. These show noticable magenta & green highlights.
Hi I've come across this on occasions where the sparkles have saturated the sensor. Normally I'd try to prevent this at the time by underexposing a bit more than usual. However I've just been working on a print that exhibits just this problem (I'd wanted to get some detail out of the shadows and there was a bright bit of sunlight on water) Using CS RAW (or your converter of choice ;-) I reduced the exposure a bit to lower the intensity of the colours. Changing other options did not seem to help any more so I converted the image. After working on the rest of the picture I created a H/S layer with ~70% desaturation. With a fine brush I applied this adjustment to the sparkles (just the brightly coloured bits) At 100% size you can hardly see them any more and on a print there is just brilliant sparkling water. In fact I'm just working on a short article for my new web site including just this :-) It's got screenshots of the problem. Subject to testing the 'all new' site will be up later on Friday. bye for now Keith Cooper Northlight Images http://northlight-images.co.uk Photography - Digital Imaging - Apple Mac Consultancy Tel +44 (0)116 291 9092 Mobile +44 (0)780 162 9397 =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
