Photo help......

[ttora4runner]

I was playing around with my new camera (Panasonic Lumix FH20) yesterday while out on a run with Wasatch Cruisers and one of the preset settings is called 'snow mode'. So all the photo's I took came out with a blue tint to them.

Is there any way to remove or lessen the blue tint? I've played around with some of the settings in the one photo program I have but it seems to lessen some of the details.


Example of the blue tint from 'snow mode' -

 

[Ludedude]

That's being caused by the white balance setting. See if your photo software has the ability to adjust that and you should be able to recover some warmth.

I'm guessing that the "snow" mode is intended for use in bright sunshine with snow and not overcast or dusk conditions.

 

[FJR Colorado]

Simple hue clocking won't help much but if you play around with the full PhotoShop tool box you can get a semi-acceptable result...

Generally speaking, the pre-sets that cameras come with cause more harm than good. Mostly they are sales tools for point of purchase... "ooh, snow mode.... that sounds great for my upcoming ski trip!" NOT so much...

 

[ywen]

you are lucky that the blue cast should be uniform for all the photos.. Which means once you have the adequate software correction dialed it, it should correct all of them in a batch fashion.

This done in Photoshop, just to give you some idea that it's possible to fix the White Balance. Not sure what batch soln exist out there.

 

[ttora4runner]

Generally speaking, the pre-sets that cameras come with cause more harm than good. Mostly they are sales tools for point of purchase... "ooh, snow mode.... that sounds great for my upcoming ski trip!" NOT so much...

Thanks guys.

Ya, I don't know how much I'll use the preset settings after this. I'm going to fiddle around with some of the manaul controls.

 

[nwoods]

you are lucky that the blue cast should be uniform for all the photos.. Which means once you have the adequate software correction dialed it, it should correct all of them in a batch fashion.

This done in Photoshop, just to give you some idea that it's possible to fix the White Balance. Not sure what batch soln exist out there.

In any copy of Photoshop CS2 or newer, it comes with Bridge, which is very good for batch proccessing. Select a bunch of images in Bridge, right click and open them in Adobe Camera Raw (even jpgs), and then adjust the white balance (and whatever else you want, like non destructive sharpening), all at once. Works really well.