I am a wedding photographer based in Miami. I shoot a lot of beach weddings. The fact is that the sand is not white here. It is yellowish off white depending where you are. Some of my brides want me to make the sand white. How do you achieve this so it looks great?
I have tried to desaturate the sand however I just don't like how it looks. It looks muddy and not real. How do you achieve the white sand look without traveling to Micronesia....?
Thanks so much!
Living up in the Panhandle of Florida, I have all the white sand in the world and on many occasions because it tends to go blue-ish in the morning light, I have to over compensate and make mine a bit more toward the yellow-orange side. Since I had one of these finished, I've simply used it for an example at to one way you can make brown sand white. I used PS CS6 in my screen shots. This is a three minute edit at tops.
First, make a loose selection of the area you want to make white, second, make a vibrance adj layer and reduce vibrance significantly, next, feather the mask significantly. Last, make a curves adj layer, copy the vibrance layer mask, change the blend mode to screen, and now you have white sand.
