Help! My Old Colour Photo has turned Pink - 5 Minute Digital Fix

Almost all of us will have seen this particular photographic problem, namely, your old colour photographs appear to have taken on an overall pink or blue tint. This is primarily due to the chemicals within the various layers of the photographic paper starting to breakdown, often due to age, and the way that the photographs have been stored. In many cases it is due to reactants in the environment (remember acid rain?) causing a chemical reaction which results in the fading of certain colour pigments in the photo. Pink and blue colour shifts are commonplace. Luckily, these colour shifts can be easily corrected, using your favourite image manipulation software, in such a way as to be able to produce an acceptable corrected image. In the example image on our web-site the "before" image of the house clearly shows a colour shift to pink. Before we start using any of the image manipulation software tools we first need to access the photograph in question and determine the steps we need to take. What do you know about the photograph in question? Well ... it's a house with a front lawn of grass, a few bushes and flowers, what appears to be a blue rubbish or compost bin, and some (right now) pink edged clouds. What else ... ? If you know the actual house, as I do (it is my sister's), I can tell you the window frames are painted white/cream and the front lawn is always in good condition, lush and a deep green. The bricks are a sandstone colour and because this house is in the North of England it is fair to say that the colour of the sky when the photo was taken would most probably have been a bit grey/white and overcast. The point of this exercise is to use "your mind's eye" to try establish what the original photograph would have looked like and the end result you want to match as closely as possible. Basic Correction Method The Basic Correction method described here can restore colour faded or tinted photos and eliminate almost all of a particular colour cast. The simplicity of the Basic correction method is that it only uses one command from Adobe Photoshop CS, namely the Levels command. The "After" image on our web-site does still have a slight pink edge to the clouds, but the final image is more than acceptable for printing. The source of the your problematic image may have come from a scanned negative, scanned print or digital camera image all converted to an image format (most probably .JPG pronounced