[unrestored photograph appears on the screen]

V.O.: This is going to sound strange, but I find color correcting photographs really soothing, so I thought I’d just walk you through the process on this picture. After cleaning it up a bit, the first thing I do is go in and add a photo filter to balance the red.

[photoshop window is open on screen with filter layer turned on]

V.O.: To do this, I use a blue. I’m using cooling filter 82 here because it best offsets the red. The other two featured cooling features have a little too much red in them to fully offset the reddish tint in the original image.

[focus in on the filter option box]

V.O.: Once the filter is on, I adjust it as necessary. This is good, but the photograph still needs a little color adjustment. So here I want to make her face sharper but balance out some of the undertones.

[go wide to photoshop window with the exposure layer turned on]

V.O.: First, I add an exposure layer, which sharpened the facial features but made her look orange. Next, I add a second layer of the cooling filter to counteract the exposure layer color while maintaining the added sharpness.

[turn on second cooling filter]

V.O.: This cooling layer is clipped specifically to her face, so only the face changes tone (as opposed to the whole image). Then I refined the full image exposure elements, which again heightened the red undertone. To counteract this, I pulled out some of the red using a levels layer.

[turn on levels layer]

V.O.: And this is the final product!

[show before image, hold 3 seconds, then show after image for 3 seconds]

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