Blue tint on digital photos

Florence Henderson Had A Mullet wrote:

Get yourself a skylight filter. It's cheap and will also protect your lens.

Blue tint can be caused by having the cameras white balance set for indoor lighting while taking outdoor photos. My canon camera never needs color tweaks on the photos -except for when I set the white balance wrong. This usually happens when I move from shooting volleyball to shooting a foootball game in bright sunlight without remmebering to reset the white balance. Then I get blue tinted photos.

"Florence Henderson Had A Mullet" < message ...

That's strange.
I have to add blue tint to about half of my photos when I scan them in.

Sandor G
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"I'ma low pay daddy singin' th' high price blues."
--Corey Harris singing Woody Guthrie

I almost always adjust the curves and levels when editing my photos. To
remove a blue tint generally one can just tweak the blue curve a bit to get
rid of the hue. Additionally tweaking the brightness/contrast settings can
help counteract the darkening that functions such as autolevels produce. For
the most part unless I am outside looking away from the sun, all photos I
take with my Canon Powershot require some editing.

- Alex

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I had an HP Photosmart 320. Note the word "had" because it shitted out on me
and I replaced it with a Canon. I also got the occasional blue tints. For
any existing photos, try editing them in Adobe or whatever photo editing
software you have, by changing the colors. It may help.

At the risk of sounding pushy, you can get a much better camera than that
for the same price. My Canon which is FAR better than the HP ever was cost
about $50 less.

Jason
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The digitals from my Sony DSC-P1 almost always require substantial color
processing. That includes removing casts (usually blue), and also adjusting
the color curves to use more of the spectrum. A typical process involves
removing casts, adjusting curves (often the aggregate RGB is sufficient),
resizing, and then carefully sharpening.

Have you ever noticed that most images on highway web sites are very poor
quality? Most people are not taking the time to process their photos
properly.

In fact, it is extremely rare to have an image which does not need to be
"photoshopped". Only film scans from my $1400 Nikon have a chance of being
good since I can adjust the parameters on the scan.

As the other poster mentioned, most software can perform this task. No need
to spend $700 on Photoshop, since $50 to $100 software (like PaintShop Pro)
does just fine.

"Florence Henderson Had A Mullet" < message ...

I had the same problem with an HP 215...except in direct sunlight there
was usually a tint. Photoshop cleans it up nice, as do any number of
lower-cost image editing programs.