Washed out flash photography

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Pam_Sandyck
Jan 24, 2004
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I’m scanning in photos that I shot indoors with a flash unit – and the problem is that the colors are looking quite washed out. I’m not satisfied with the results that I’m getting trying various things in PE2.

Does anyone have a favorite technique for this that they would like share?
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Nancy_S
Jan 24, 2004
Pam,

You could try duplicating the layer in the Layers Palette and setting the mode to Multiply and adjusting the opacity of that layer is needed. You could try adding a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer and experimenting with the sliders. You could also try duplicating the layer and setting it to color burn and adjusting the opacity.

If what you’re seeing instead is "blown out hightlights" (white areas from the flash) that is a problem. The totally white areas contain no data to work with.

Let us know your results.

Nancy

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