Photo post / audio analogy - de-yellow night shot

Hi Mark,

In my city we have quite dark and really strong orangy-yellow street lights. My camera with auto WB gives me results like this:


Which is actually quite close to the actual look (because everything is really dark and yellow).

However, it’s quite easy to make this photo look like this (I use ART for editing, exclusively):

Basically, I shifted WB to very cold temp (1800) and then desaturated blue color, because everything outside of this yellow light becomes really blueish at 1800.

Here is how it looks like without blue color desaturation:

Obviously, if you have some actual blue color on the subject, you will need to use some local editing, but in this particular image I was able to just desaturate blue globally on the whole picture. And of course it gets a bit more difficult if you have people on your picture because of skin tones, but still manageable.

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