Professional Color Correction Services
Color correction is the process of fixing and resolving any kinds of color issues with the photo. It also brings the image to a deeper dimension, playing on moods and tones based on the hues that are selected. Colors can change the story completely, so let us help you on that journey of visual story telling.
Add depth, clarity and drama to your photos with our professional photo color correction services. You may opt to adjust brightness, white balance, filters, contrast, tone, saturation, highlights and the shadows of a photo to achieve a striking and refreshing finish.
High-quality color correction injects life into an image. It elevates photo quality: from good to great and from great to outstanding.
Color Variants
Save time and resources by producing different color variants of one product or fashion catalog image. Our color correction service eliminates the need to extend a photo shoot or hold a new one whenever a new color variant becomes available.
Color Palette Adjustment
Shift from one color palette to another to meet unique editorial standards. We can isolate elements on a photo and apply color correction on each of them to produce a beautiful and harmonious palette.
Temperature Adjustment
Make photos look alive and realistic through temperature adjustment. We also use this technique to manipulate images and create specific moods. Pictures taken under the heat of the sun, for example, can appear cool on screen, and vice versa.
Brightness And Contrast
Improve photos through our tonal range adjustments. We brighten dark areas to reveal hidden details and adjust the contrast to make colors pop and separate the foreground from the background, giving you vibrant images with dimension.
White Balance Correction
Ideally, objects that appear white in person are also rendered as white on photos. Sometimes, however, the pure white that we see in person appears bluish or yellowish on photos. We can correct flaws like this to preserve color integrity and achieve accuracy.
Shadows And Highlights
Create depth in photos to make them appear more realistic. Paper Boat Creative’s digital illustrators are masters at using shadows to emphasize distances and size differences. We also use highlights to best effect, giving photos a dramatic touch.
The service we provide is advanced color correction, so we listen to the story you want to tell with your image, and we bring it to life.
Paper Boat Creative offers color correction services that are personalized to your needs. We relentlessly strive to understand your desired outcome and deliver the end result you imagined.
These are the tools we normally use in Color Correction:
- Color Balance
- Curves and Levels
- Channel Mixer
- Gradient Map
- Contrast and Gamma Levels
- Replace Color Tool
- Advanced Color Mixing in RAW format
- Color Overlay
- Digital Painting of New Color
- Dodge and Burn
PUsing photo enhancement software and tools, we provide a wide range of color correction processes:
- White balancing of images
- Photo density and color correction
- Tonal value adjustments
- Skin color correcting
- Color enhancement or refinement
- Black and white adjustments
Why do we need to color correct?
In photography, it can be rare to get an image that is absolutely balanced where the whites of an image are truly white, and the blacks of an image are truly black. This is because there are so many varying light sources as well as objects reflecting off of each other, mixing up colors in space.
Color distortions normally occur from one of the following reasons:
- Source of light
- Objects around the subject
- Camera settings
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Distortions from Light Sources
Despite your careful preparations, things outside of your control could derail your photoshoot plans. The weather, for example, could change in an instant and replace your perfect outdoor lighting with too-bright sunlight or a dark, overcast sky. You might also be forced to work in an indoor location with the wrong type of lighting (e.g., getting a cool tone from fluorescent lights when you need warm tones from incandescent lamps and vice versa).
Rather than waste time and resources postponing the shoot for more favorable conditions, you might decide to push through — and that is perfectly fine! You have Paper Boat Creative and our photo color correction services to fall back on, after all.
Our photo editing and retouching artists have an eye for colors to suit the mood and tone you were going for. With your direction, we can enhance, change, or amplify the different shades in your photo until the resulting image matches what you saw in person. We can also adjust the colors to achieve the level of saturation or contrast that you wanted.
We exist to help photographers and clients bring to life their artistic concepts. If lousy lighting is the problem, you can count on our expertise in fixing color distortions.
Distortions from Additive and Subtractive Color Mixing
Obscure colors in photos make for interesting conversation (‘What color do you think this dress is?”), but they aren’t ideal when you’re selling things off an online or print catalog. Customers look for accurate information; showing a product photo that’s several shades darker or lighter could backfire on your credibility.
But when the objects that surround your photo is the culprit for the color distortion (by virtue of additive and subtractive color mixing), you can’t keep postponing your shoot to wait for more favorable conditions. Delays in shoot schedules can cost more time and resources than you or your clients are willing to provide.
Fortunately, there’s a better way to resolve your dilemma: do the corrections in post-production instead of changing the set design or finding colored lights that will reduce discoloration. Stick to your schedule as planned and hand over the color correction work to the photography post-production professionals at Paper Boat Creative.
With our color correction services, you can make your deadlines and keep your photoshoot expenses within the allocated budget. More importantly, you can produce the color-accurate photos your clients need for their website product pages, e-commerce sites, and catalogs.
Avoid confusing your audience by preserving the truth about the people or objects you photographed. Hire the Paper Boat Creative team to perform photo color correction; we will ensure the accuracy of your photos whenever necessary.
Distortion from Camera Settings
Automatic settings on cameras often saturate the colors on images because they tend to look attractive; but to the practiced eye, such photos could have issues with white balance, exposure, and color distortion.
A landscape photo could perfectly capture the deep blue of the sky but fail to show the details of the trees in the distance, for instance. Or it could be the other way around: the photo will illuminate and focus on the distant background at the expense of having a too-bright sky.
This isn’t just a problem for amateur photographers; even the more seasoned ones sometimes need to sacrifice one element in favor of another. Does this have to be your problem? Of course not. Given enough time, we can later produce a perfect image for them through photo compositing (you can read more about photo compositing here).
If your camera’s features are very limited, and you don’t have enough images to come up with a satisfying composite image, Paper Boat Creative’s photo color correction service can be helpful.
Our experienced team can recognize color distortions due to limited camera settings. More importantly, we know how to correct them such that the result will be an evenly lit image with natural-looking colors.
Get in touch with Paper Boat Creative and inquire about our photo color correction services today.
Different Methods of Color Correcting on Photoshop
Here are some of our most common tools used, however for more advanced conversations we can look at color correction in even more detail. Remember that fixing pixels is almost like trying pick out a grain of sand. Sand has so many tiny particles of dark, medium and light bits, so one adjustment can affect the rest!
Levels
Using the Levels tool on Photoshop, we can drop down on the tab from RGB (Red – Green – Blue combo) to the isolated colors of Red, Green or Blue separately. Then we can adjust the toggle to enhance or reduce one color over the other.
Curves
Using the Curve tool on Photoshop, which is great for lighting adjustments, you can also use the drop down toggle to adjust highlights and contrasts of colors too. If you want all the shadows to look very blue for example, curves would be a great method for doing that.
Color Balance
It does what it says. We find this tool great but sometimes also too generalized, so if we move the arrows to any one color direction, it affects quite a lot of the image. Sometimes it can be great, sometimes it can be a little harsh.
Replace Color
It does what it says. We find this tool great but sometimes also too generalized, so if we move the arrows to any one color direction, it affects quite a lot of the image. Sometimes it can be great, sometimes it can be a little harsh.
Hue / Saturation
We probably know this term quite well by now because we see this same option in phone cameras and simple applications. Hue changes the overall color tone but in one fell swoop, while saturation gives you the option to have more intense, or more dull color tones for your image.
