Color Correction

I understand that color correction is a method that people use in Photoshop to make the image easier to crop out the subject or the background. It is also used to differentiate multiple subjects within the image, and makes them stand out more. The assignment was extremely difficult to cope with, specially the images like the bird and the rooster (one had too much shadow and the other had so many different colors). I fixed the rooster by using the black/white adjuster and then fixing the hues from there (using green, a little blue, and red saturation). Then I selected the bird and made it lighter that the background. I tried using curves for the bird, but I didn’t come across a significant change in the image other than an inverse/negative color layout.

The money was also done the same way, but I didn’t select anything and I had to focus more on the shadows of the image. I tinted the shadows of the image yellow to make them easier to manipulate (since the shadows didn’t have a common color to begin with). The Quirigua monument was very hard to handle since the image had a monochromatic style to it already. If I change one aspect (saturation, hue, brightness), the entire image changed dramatically. To work around that, I used the curves, color balance, shadow/highlights, and hue/saturation (in this order). I ended up finishing, but had a little trouble with the hue/saturation because the image was really sensitive at that point.