Otter's Rock

Disclaimer: I have never, in my life, tried to photoshop an image. However, as the child of two excellent portrait photographers, I've absorbed a great deal of general photographic knowledge.

Here's a tip for anybody out there who's thinking of trying to use photoshop. If you're putting together two images with vastly different color balances, you're going to have problems. Color balance means the kinds of tones most prevalent in an image. Some images are "warm" and some are "cool." Warm=lots of reds, yellows, and oranges; cool=lots of blues, greens, grays. It can be adjusted, both in old-fashioned printing from a negative, and in photoshop.

Why does this matter, you ask? IF YOU PUT TOGETHER A PIC OF SOMEONE WITH A COOL COLOR BALANCE AND A PIC OF SOMEONE WITH A WARM COLOR BALANCE, THE "COOL" PERSON IS GOING TO LOOK LIKE A VAMPIRE, AND THE "WARM" PERSON IS GOING TO LOOK LIKE THEY'RE BLUSHING. If that's not the effect you're going for, please please please either pick photos to combine with a closer original color balance, or learn to adjust it in photoshop.

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