Heather Arnold - My best friend and I have just started a photography business and I would definitely have to say our problem is skin tones! Most of our pictures come out WAY too warm! How do you correct for skin tone without correcting the entire picture? When I bring the temp down the whole pictures turns blue :-(. Thank you SO much for all of your wonderful tips!
Heather Corporan - Wow, I'm sooo enjoying my afternoon of going backwards through your FAQ posts. (way more productive than my time wasted at B&N and photography magazines) : ] I think I'ma start me a MJ binder to keep for reference! I can hardly retain all this great info!
Leslie - Wow Melissa Thx this really helped my eyes to be more open to the skin tones being more yellow. Great Tut.
Corie in Indy - Thanks so much, Melissa! This is very helpful!
Anabella - Hi Melissa,
Happy New Year! I've been reading your blog for a few months, and totally love it. Thanks for sharing yor work and your knowledge.
I am getting ready to invest in some color calibration equipment and thought I'd look through your f.a.q.s to see what you use. I re-read through your color-correction post, but haven't found anything about actually calibrating the monitor or the printer for color accuracy when printing. Is this something you do, or do you let the lab do the color correction for print? Thanks for any wisdom you can shed on this subject!
Calvin Hill - These F.A.Q are great. Thanks so much for sharing.
sarah - When you shoot the reception, do you always shoot the whole thing in raw???
Lisette Price - New blog reader here! Thank you for these awesome tips. I had actually just started playing around with the temperature and tint sliders yesterday while editing. What a difference they make! :)
Maria - Thank you for the tutorial Melissa! You are one of my very favorite "lovecats", yes I did read the book based on your recommendation. Your work and your blog continually inspire me. :)
Amanda Mays - Great tutorial! I know I struggle with this and have been trying to learn how to tweak correctly so this is a BIG help!
Matt - Stop yelling a me about my skin tones. [grin]. Okay, okay... I get it - back off on the action juice.
Good post.
Matt Dexter - Melissa I can tell you put a lot of work into this. Super job!
Tanner - You're wicked awesome! Now all you have to do is add F.A.Q to your catagories up there. :-) Great info Melissa! Thanks.
Armin - This is probably one of my favorite posts! Clients want to look good so skin tones are so important. Improving skin tones is on my to-do list this year AND getting it almost right in-camera in the first place using the Kelvin ("K") WB or the WB shift settings. In "K" mode, the temperature number is exactly the same as that slider :) Of course this requires fumbling with the menu and knowing how warm or how cool your image will turn out later, not to mention a lot of practice. I'm still tweaking just a bit in post, but not as much as before. Great advice here Melissa!
CINDY - I LOVE these FAQ/Tutorials! Thanks so much!
Ed K - Great little tutorial...and I like how you stay inside the lines when you color......uuh, you did ask for "snide" didn't you? (c: btw, nice work.
Tanya Mills - Thanks, Melissa! I just recently started shooting RAW, and this information is really helpful! I'll try setting my camera to Auto White Balance now.
Chris Harvey - Melissa,
Do you think monitor calibration could play a part in this? I know we got bitten by that earlier on where our images looked fine on our monitor, but looked to warm on others.
Chris Enzaldo - Thanks for the refresher. I do the same thing in Lightroom (temp./tint adjustments). I've always switched between temp settings on my camera; but you're right, I might as well just use Auto the whole time, and batch-change in post. Sometimes I get REALLY finicky on the smallest changes in temp., and I can't decide. Then I realize the bride is probably gonna say 'O my God that's amazing!' on either one. Sometimes I wish I could actually hide the numbers and just go by visual instinct.
Sara - I agree with Tira, I just learned so much. Thanks you Melissa! I love your simple approach and I LOVE your images. Please teach more!!!!
Sara
Tira J - Wow! I just learned so much and for that, I am eternally grateful. Thank you so much Melissa. I had just done a shoot in JPEG and recently edited it and now regret not shooting it raw. Do you use any actions at all?
amy - you're awesome ... I love learning how you work.
thanks!
xo
-A