my own, that is. Someday, I'm gonna conquer this whole color correction thing. In the meantime, want to see some of my journey?
Here's a recent picture of Littlest Dude at the pool on the "island." :-) SOOC:
![IMG_2739](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_s3luoIY65OGq0Jtc90kkygrqKs4Q8FBS8n-hlhqZilbbOOAVbPzk8Ri8gA1K6TaTi8pnbLBnHMPJBnC9o7MhoqSWWsoIKfU3TrMcR7Gkzs3oodrr3qvRD3CzYubV15LAhLCA=s0-d)
Here's what the same picture looks like after I used the white balance dropper in Lightroom to pick a "neutral" spot. In this instance I clicked on that little gray section at the bottom of the scoreboard. My target neutral doesn't HAVE to be gray; any neutral (where all three RGB numbers are closely the same) will do. Pros: This is a super simple, fast fix. Cons: It's not always an accurate fix. This time it was pretty good, albeit not perfect - I think the clouds are too pink, but the skin is better.
![IMG_2739-2](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_uKSxFOqt6BsYzow3GAXkUZLvdPWYAJ3-K0YeH5Oi_TWfNvZULqMn4C85l9G0b-e-vSRUZH-ajEOGybalfe-STJOUyyfqLN5r9iNvfndGgJhT1MS8eZhrBBjZw_zO3IHdnI=s0-d)
I've been immersing myself in
this book, trying to wrap my brain around correct color and how to achieve it. This book is a huge proponent of Curves. So here is my meager attempt to fix the above photo using just Curves in Photoshop. Instead of using mere seconds (like the LR fix), I whittled away
hours ... a little longer in Photoshop to achieve this fix:
![IMG_2739-Edit](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_uSZd5qftB6vQY6ApL3zGKoWHCNKcj6EDYtz2HC9BPOeuLgimWZmTTWZJp2q80tVYaP3WB9AsUOhJk-2lcl9Bw4_rrrqo1BD0sOI25C_VfFYh3YAd1OY9pbh36GhJzC8EE-SQ=s0-d)
And then I went right back to Lightroom, slapped the quickie preset that I had always pictured for this image on the original and declared it my favorite.
![IMG_2739-3](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_ub0csJQQImCyFQBHD-1q1o7UFmah0jr6SfuZbHpZVOPk0nKf8XsHK062wk_cDTtlSWtFvhQW2fZae2f0KkkcbEQc-XP_bIdzXH1_NLOrJiySJNsX0shlZI08G-BHOnMjvSUw=s0-d)
Moral of the story? There isn't one. I just hope all this time I'm
wasting investing will some day pay off. ;-)