My neighbor took 35mm photos during trips to Bermuda, Europe, and Spain. We scanned the photos, and they looked great on a laptop. But when we created a slide show on DVD and viewed the DVD on TV, the faces were too red. I tried to adjust the skin tone and color--but when the faces were acceptable, the photo's colors looked washed out. Any suggestions?--Edward Spence, Las Vegas, Nevada

There are a few things to consider. First, I would caution you not to adjust the skin tone in your photos based on how the photos look on a particular TV. If the photos look good on your PC and bad on the TV, then my first theory would be that the TV's color balance is out of whack. If the photos look uniformly bad on more than one TV, though, you might want to do some photo surgery.

If you've corrected the white balance (in Adobe Photoshop Elements select Enhance, Adjust Color, Remove Color Cast), then try tweaking the hue (Enhance, Adjust Color, Adjust Hue/Saturation). For trickier lighting and color problems, you might want to try your hand at some regional corrections. By that I mean you can select all of the exposed skin with a tool like the Magnetic Lasso and make specific color corrections there, which will leave the rest of the photo untouched. Finally, you can take the edge off red faces by reducing the saturation (Enhance, Adjust Color, Adjust Hue/Saturation).

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