{"id":38294,"date":"2025-11-19T14:44:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T19:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=38294"},"modified":"2025-11-19T15:15:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T20:15:21","slug":"all-of-your-best-most-important-photos-deserve-to-be-optimized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=38294","title":{"rendered":"All of Your Most Important Photos Deserve to be Optimized"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kaylyn<\/p><\/div>\n

Kaylyn is a regional director for Growing Hope Globally (see the third link below) and I was taking pictures of her addressing a local church group.<\/p>\n

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Kaylyn, Bloomington Community of Christ.<\/p><\/div>\n

This is the original photo, right out of the camera and resized for the web. I color corrected the image due to the color cast of the light in the room. <\/span><\/p>\n

Most artificial lights have a yellow, green, or yellow\/green color cast of some sort. Your eyes\/brain automatically compensates for the color cast (color temperature) of the lights in a room so things look normal. But your camera does not compensate, so for optimum colors you need to (1) change the white balance settings on your camera, or (2) set a custom white balance (see the second link below), or if that is not convenient, (3) do a color correction of the photos after the fact. I went with option 3. <\/span><\/p>\n

Incidentally, smart phones try to auto-compensate for the light, with varying results, sometimes good, sometimes not so good. So smart phone photos may also need some color correction.<\/span><\/p>\n

I opened this image in Adobe Bridge and used the Camera Raw Filter (Adobe Camera Raw) in Adobe Photoshop to color correct this photo.<\/p>\n

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Kaylyn, Bloomington Community of Christ.<\/p><\/div>\n

This is the result. This was a simple fix that took less than 60 seconds dragging a few sliders in ACR. I also cropped the image for a more pleasing composition without the distracting corner of a painting on the wall behind her.<\/p>\n

For a tutorial in using ACR to color correct a photo, see the first link below.<\/p>\n

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Kaylyn receives a check for Growing Hope Globally.<\/p><\/div>\n

This is another right out of the camera photo.<\/p>\n

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Kaylyn receives a check for Growing Hope Globally.<\/p><\/div>\n

This is the cropped and color corrected version.<\/p>\n

Links<\/strong><\/p>\n

How To Optimize A Photo With Adobe Camera Raw<\/a><\/p>\n

A Custom White Balance is the Key to Better, More Accurate Colors<\/a><\/p>\n

Growing Hope Globally<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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