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holidays, light, natural, outdoor, peace, skies, copy, space, summer,
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color, red, orange, steel, iron, decay, old, grunge, grungy, background,
corrode, corrosion, oxide, hydroxide, oxidation, ferro, backdrop,

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symbol, sign, copyright, corporate, business, tag, mark, trade, brand,
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caution, danger, department, emergency, firefighter, fireman, firestation,
firetruck, flame, heat, hot, rescue, smoke, warn, warning, security, copy,
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corrode, corrosion, oxide, hydroxide, oxidation, ferro, machine, background,
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Don't you
just hate it when you've taken an image, and it turns out there's some sort
of yellowish or blueish shade on it? I do, and I found a way to fix it.
Here's
an image I took the other day on my way home from work.

I know, it looks like Granny's cellar wall with a 40W bulb. It happens all the
time. Now, there's a number of ways to get rid of this, but one very common
way (CTRL+L etc.) sometimes gives unwanted noise. So then I thought: "There's
got to be a way to avoid this. Avoid, avoid, avoid.... dodge! Photoshop
has got all these dodge this and dodge that effects. Let's see if we can dodge
this yellow tone" So, I figured that if I selected the lightest colour on the
picture, made a new layer and dodged it upon the original photo, then it might
work. No, it didn't. But when I inverted the new layer, so that the
slightly yellowish colour I had selected became dark blueish - then it worked!
See
the procedure here:
1.
Take the eyedropper and select the lightest spot on the picture.
2.
Make a new layer, and colour it with that colour.
3.
Invert.

4. Colour dodge! Notice that you can reduce the percentage of the upper layer
from 100% to, like, whatever, so that you have better control over the dodging.
Often I use 70% to avoid a washed out result, but this time 100% worked fine.
5.
Yay! Now, let's see the closeups before:

....and after:

Not bad, eh? No noise and no washed out crap. This method also works fine if
there's a blueish tone on a picture or pretty much anything.
The
end:

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