I just figured out an accurate way to correct color casts in your photos in 4 easy steps with Photoshop without having to use Curves or advanced color management.

Here’s a picture of some penguins with a yellow/greenish cast:

And here they are after the technique, in their black and bright white glory:

How to do it:

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While perusing the Technique group on Flickr the other day I found a post about creating “Amazing Circles”. The name sounded so cheesy I couldn’t resist checking it out. And now it’s my latest addiction. I spent the better part of a weekend going through my old pictures looking for good candidates to try out this technique on and in the process learned a few things about how to make a good Amazing Circle.

I learned how to do it from a tutorial that one of my fellow Flickrers wrote up, but I made a few changes to the process to suit my needs. This is a description of how I make mine.

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