Help color-correcting a photo

Joined: 17 Mar 2006 Posts: 68 Location: Pasadena, CA

Hi, I'm a beginning digital photographer (currently own D70) and I'd like help color correcting an image, if possible. I took the following image of my pet rat Nodin by bouncing a flash (by the way this was with a point-and-shoot, not the Nikon) and it happened to bounce off a piece of Ikea furniture with a yellowish fake wood finish.

Nodin's fur is a color called Russian Blue. Here's in sunlight:

My software is PSE 5.0. I made an attempt to correct the color with "remove color cast" and clicked on his fur at random until it looked better. Some of his fur is close to gray, so that worked reasonably well:

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However, there's still a noticeable cast, and the "color dynamic range" is low.. I'm not sure what I mean by that, but I'm trying to describe how it all looks kinda the same color.

Can someone help? Preferably if you could give me a procedure I could do on the full sized image with PSE 5.0. If it requires channels or curves, I could probably do it with GIMP.

Thanks,
Mike

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Joined: 17 Mar 2006 Posts: 68 Location: Pasadena, CA

Here's my first attempt to color-correct, using "remove color cast" and clicking at random on his fur: