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Are any of these any good to you R Knepper Desk Image. R Knepper Beer Image. R Knepper Talk Image. No problem, just keep tweeking!

Oh Dear, I am a lousy instructor, but the best way to explain would be to use GIMP as its free to download and easy to use,. Right, if you don't have gimp google it asnd download it, its free for life, so always worth having, Run Gimp, in thre GNU Box click, File, Click open, and select the photo you want to work with You should now have the photo you want to edit open in an image box, go to colours on the top menu bar select levels, and a new box will open, if you click the Auto Tab (Lower centre of the levels box 9 times out of 10 it will correct it about right automatically) You can fine tune the image further using the manual controls in there, but most of the time the auto setting will clear most of the colour cast. Click OK to lock the changes, If you want to improve the skin tones a bit more you can then go to the colour bar again and select Colour Balance, Leave on midtones and slide the Yellow Blue Slider a few points to blue, also on the shadows, its all a bit trail and error, but once you get one right the same settings should work on all other images taken in the same lighting. Hope that helps some, and as I said sorry I am a lousy instructor, (The above was based on a JPG image by the way)

Just starting to go through the Talk Session Sets, and process some of each Guest, Here is the first full Head & Shoulders Set, Karen Gillan

Lighting and Removing the Yellow Colour Casts, So many of the photos here are suffering with a yellow colour cast caused by the low Burn temperature of the lighting used in the halls at Earls Court, The average Lighting Temperature at the event was 2300k, which is way below what the camera can automatically correct for, and even the flash on many small camera's will not overpower the lighting in the hall to correct for the colour cast, But it's very easy to remove in a lot of photo editing program's even the Free ones like GIMP, just open your photo and adjust the lighting controls to 2300 Kelvin, and you should see an improvement in the skin tones of the images. EG: Straight Out Of The Camera, Adjusted to 2300k AND HERE IS A LINK TO OTHER PHOTOS FROM THE SHOW (Sorry its a link, but to many to add all as individuals) LFCC Images - (Updated 11th July)

Here are a few from Saturday, (Roughs only no final edits done yet) STAGESHOOT - LFCC Saturday Images Out For Press Publication