Several years ago my wife and I went to Seattle and got into BC a bit. Great Trip! Great pictures from the Nikon film camera we thought.  Yes, good shots but apparently airport x-ray did what it was not supposed to do...added a color cast to all the shots.

Everything has a blue cast.   I haven't rescanned the images since first trying to correct in PSP, before I had  Photoshop™.

If you have images with a color cast how do you go about correcting the color?  I have simple ways but have not yet tried the very blue ones.              TomD'Art

Didn't we just discuss this subject in the other thread?

post an image please, that will help (both-us)

Once again: ColorWasher, or DIY

ColorWasher ( some $45 ) is cheaper at

http://www.pluginz.com/product/11278

and Harald Heim, its developer, is a photographer himself. The algorithms are really better. It's one of the only plugins I have installed ( out of many I have on backup cd's )because its quality outperformed me in invested time and several times even in quality.

Gradient, yes, this thread is quite similar to the other but I see it as different.  I refer here to an entire image with a color cast such as the blue I mentioned.  With a film image, and scanned at that, there is no raw file to work with.

Maybe I should have called the thread " Recovering Photos Miscolored in Process" or something similar.     Then again, if not worth posting about, responses will not be here. I can live with that, too.     Thanks.        TomDart.

Not sure if it helps Tom, but, my Canon MP960 has some slide holders for scanning negatives with. I've tried it a few times and was really impressed with the results, but, alas, the images were taken by my mother using a disposable camera, really crappy work. I imagine it would be much better with quality work like yours.

Sorry folks..I posted before going to get the photos to scan one and post. Those photos and negatives are packed away and cannot be found for now.    Essentially, it is like a transparent bluish layer was over the images.  Thanks anyway.    Tom.

Please bear with me for one more thought.  I actually feel a bit silly for starting this thread instead of digressing a bit and including it in the other one on Sodium Lights.

This is my concern:  Likely my lack of deeper techinical knowledge of what really happens in image color correction is behind all of this.  For instance, with prints or color negatives of prints which show a global color cast, is the real color still there? Does it exist in any degree?  Is the true color masked by an "overlay" of color cast or is the process to take the opposing color and replace the cast?

I do not know if  "restortation of color" is what is happening or "replacement of color" is the event in digital editing of these images. I suspect replacement is the answer. The accuracy of doing this is variable.  All of this got me a bit confused and that is the reason for starting a thread not really needed.

Please reply to this thread or by IM.  Any responses will greatly help me understand what is actually happening.

Tanchelyn,* * ColorWasher has a trial download and I am getting it.

Cryptojoe, thanks for the imput on the Canon scanner. My HP has a facility but it is not well designed for easy use in scanning negatives.

See all around the site.  Thanks for the input.      Tom.