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The older a photographic image is, the more likely it's going to be damaged in
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some way by the elements. In this particular example, this image
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was taken from a print, the original negative had been lost, and that print
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had been displayed in a photo album. That was a little bit damaging to the
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photo, more than likely the adhesive was a little bit acidic, but whatever the
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cause there was a significant color shift in the photo.
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When you have a very strong color shift there is a quick technique that can help
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to dramatically alter that color very very easily.
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Let's take a look at how it's done. I'm going to start off by creating a Copy
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of my Background Image Layer. So I'll Drag the Thumbnail for the
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Background Image Layer down to the Create New Layer button, the Blank Sheet of
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Paper icon at the bottom of the Layers panel.
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I then want to find the average color for this layer, because when we have a very
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strong color cast, that average color will basically equate to the actual color
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of that cast. To accomplish that, I'll go to the Filter
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menu and then choose Blur, followed by Average.
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And this will apply such a strong blur that the result is the average color of
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all pixels within the image. Obviously in this case the color cast was
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something of a magenta, to a sort of pinkish tone, an so now we can see that
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actual color. Of course, we don't want this color, we
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want its opposite, because we want to compensate for this color.
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So the next step is to go to the Image menu, an then choose Adjustments,
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followed by Invert. That will invert this color to its
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opposite, which happens to be a shade of green of sorts.
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And now, I want to apply this color, the opposite of the color cast, as a color
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shift in the underlying image. And so I'm going to change the Blend mode
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for this layer to Color. And that will cause this layer to only
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affect the color in the underlying photo. Of course the effect is very, very strong.
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We've completely replaced all colors in the image with some shade of green.
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I didn't want to have quite that strong of an effect.
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And so now, I want to tone it down. And I can do that by reducing the opacity
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for my background copy layer. I'll go ahead and reduce the opacity.
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If I take the opacity down all the way, we'll see the original image with that
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pinkish tint. If I take it up all the way, we'll see
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the green version of the image. But if I dial that opacity back to a more
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moderate value, I'll be able to compensate for that strong color cast.
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Of course, once I've applied this adjustment you can see that I've lost
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some of the saturation in the colors, as well as some of the contrast in the
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image, but those can very easily be compensated for with some basic tonal
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adjustments, and perhaps increasing saturation with a hue saturation adjustment.
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But by using the average blur filter on a copy of our background image layer, and
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then using the Color blend mode, and reducing the opacity for the layer we're
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able to compensate for a very strong Color Cast very, very easily.