First edit with RAW

[Irene K]

This is the first time I have shot and edited a picture in RAW. I was mostly wondering how the color looks. This photo has only been through the RAW editor in PSE9 and no other tweaking.



NIkon D90
Manual Mode
1/800
f/5.6
ISO 1000
Flash did not fire

[perfectoarts]

That of course is a difficult question as we all seem to have our monitors calibrated differently. In the perfect world of course, we would all be the same.
On mine, the face looks too flushed and reddish, but the remainder looks fine. In RAW ACR you can actually go to HSL/Grayscale. There you can change individual Hue, Saturation and Luminance of individual colours. Have a play there and see what comes up.

[BigFuzzy]

Seems a bit reddish to me as well.
Could also be a WB thing.

[TBrown00]

Seems reddish/pinkish to me also. I would agree with Fuzzy and try changing the WB towards blue and green first. Then I would go into the HSL sliders and adjust the saturation slider for red and maybe magenta if necessary. I'm not sure if PSE RAW has the feature where you can click on an area of the photo and drag to adjust the sliders in the HSL box based on what colors are there. If it does, there should be a small circle in the upper left of the HSL box. You click this circle, click on the area of the photo you want to change, and then drag down to move the sliders to the left and up to move them to the right.