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Photo Correction
This is not really a Vegas Q per se. I have some photos from an Easter Egg party hosted by a friend. My pics (Nikon dig SLR) look correct. Another set (also Nikon) look correct. A third (Panasonic) look “off”. When you examine them with a histogram, the Blue is … off. I don’t really do any work in Photoshop or the like. Is there a quick way to “fix” these pics via some combination of Brightness, Contrast, Gamma, Saturation, and RGB balance … or is this pretty much a lost cause?
Thanks in advance.
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This may even easier to fix than you imagine. Put the photo(s) on a Vegas timeline and add the Color Corrector FX. In the FX’s dialog, click the Complimentary Color picker beneath the “High” color wheel. Then click an area of the preview window where the image should be white. Your image should look a little better. Now click the Complimentary Color picker beneath the “Low” color wheel, and then click an area of the preview window where the image should be black.
In all liklihood, that will do it. If not, also try the “Mid” Complimentary Color picker and choose an area that should be gray-ish.
Rob
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Thanks, that works. I had to use Mid adjustment. Is there a way to have the original image modified as well? I.e., if I wanted to use it outside of Vegas, I can use the corrected one.
And along the same topic, is there a way to simulate the use of a circular polarizer as a Vegas FX?
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Also, if you are using Photoshop or a comparable still image editor (GIMP or PaintShop Pro, for instance) instead of Vegas, they also contain a number of color correction filters, adjustment layers and so on that work very much as the color curves, color corrector and related FX work in Vegas.
If you get comfortable with one set of filters, the other set tends to be fairly similar, and will allow as much fine control or quick and dirty adjustment as suits your needs and available time.
Once you have a preset that seems to work, you should be able to save it and batch process a whole stack of similarly “off-color” (sorry, couldn’t resist that line) pics without too much pain and suffering.
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