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Jeremy Payne on underwater color correction

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Wetpixel member Jeremy Payne posts a link to his technique for color correcting underwater images exposed with too little strobe light.

Here’s a method that can often return significant natural-looking color to your underwater images that have that blue/green cast. This technique works best with images without a lot of water column and lots of colorful stuff. I’m using Photoshop CS3 for this tutorial, but most of the effects are easy to replicate in other editors.