Flight Museum

I took a little of the green out of it.  Flourescents make the ugliest color cast, I think.  If you shot this in RAW, just use your white balance eye-dropper tool (I) and click on some neutral areas of the image until it looks right to you.  One nice thing about this shot is that there are a lot of neutrals to work with.  It might take a few clicks in the same general area, but eventually the dropper will pick up on a pixel that sets your color very close.  You'll know it when you see it.

For this one, I did basically the same thing, but from the layers palette and the grey dropper.  One nice thing about this method is that, if you so desired, you could do it with an adjustment layer and paint back areas where you liked the original color cast (like if you had used a flash for instance).

Hope you don't mind:

Thanks, Travis. Everytime I used the eyedropper, it made it really blue for some reason.

I bet that plane is from Japan... [grin] Doesn't it say what it is on that piece of paper taped to the floor?

When I shoot something like that I try to find (and remember) something that's close to grey or white. Those beams might be might not. that piece of paper is probably white..
etc etc etc. Set white balance to taht then I warm it up (usually too much) and call it done.. [grin]

A trick I use is to make a threshold adjustment layer and run the slider to each end to find the darkest and lightest parst of the image. If you use the color sample tool (the second one on the eyedropper menu) you can use it to mark those spots on the photo, discard the threashold layer, and use your curves eyedropper to sample from the two points that you have marked. I also have my sample size set at 3x3 average. If you pull your info palette out to keep it open you will also see the RGB values of those two samples marked. Then with curves you can go in to each channel and adjust the ends of the curves box so tht the values on your sample are even, giving you good color contrast. I usually keep my black point values between 5 and 15, and the white point between 245-255. This way I'll always have a little detail left in the shadows and my highlights aren't blown out unless I want some specular highlights.

Confused yet?

Me, too!