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Every month, Jim will answer a question from his online students, from people who participate in his tours and workshops, or from subscribers to this magazine. If you have a question you’d like Jim to answer, please drop him a note at photos@jimzuckerman.com.

Q: Jim . . . I photographed this female moose in Banff National Park in Canada several years ago with film, and it turned out too greenish. I’m not sure if it was the film that was the problem or perhaps a bad scan. Is there any way to address this color issue and make the picture look more correct? Tomasz Wojcik, San Diego, California A: The easiest and fastest way to make the color more normal is to use the pulldown menu command Image > adjustments > color balance in Photoshop. There are three sliders in the dialog box. Move the green/ magenta slider to the left, toward magenta, and that will solve the problem. Don’t move it too far, but just enough so the green color bias disappears. Green and magenta are complementary colors, and they counteract each other. §

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