Removing a Color Cast creates a Color Cast

BuckSkin
I took a quick run at this earlier, and was not so pleased.
I have no magic answer and will try again later tonight or in the morning before mowing the lawns.  
Clive

In my Opinion, saying these have a colorcast is putting very mildly. An image with a color cast would have the same color cast across the entire image - these do not. To me they look oversaturated to the point that gray barb wire turned blue and the brown bird(?) went magenta.

Other than selecting parts of the image and desaturating or changing the color I am not sure what else you could do. How where these images taken and processed?

Some of your earlier photos do display some CA. The is thrasher series was exaggerated. 

Question: (Maybe I missed this.) Do you shoot jpeg and if so what are the camera settings? Is it possible you have one of the special features (scenes, HDR, etc) turned on? 
If you are shooting jpegs, without changing any settings, can you shoot something as it is now set and also shoot it the same thing in RAW? And then post unedited samples of each? 

You might shoot something simple. A bowl of apples, tennis balls or flowers on a table in the sun and in the shade.  

Thanks 

Clive

BuckSkin,

As fotofrank expertly pointed out, this is not a case of color cast. Color cast is when ALL tonal values in an image are shifted. For example, the image will look too blue, or too orange, or too green, etc.  According to Adobe Help, . . .


Source: Color Cast

What we are seeing here is a case of oversaturation, caused by a Hue/Saturation adjustment in which the sliders were drastically moved to the right.

For us to better help you with this problem, would you please post two screen shots?

One screen shot showing the image as you bring it from the Raw Converter into the Editor. No color cast correction, no saturation adjustments.

Another screen shot showing the results of applying a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer, including a screen shot of the Hue/Saturation dialog showing how you adjusted those sliders.

Hi Buckskin.

I totally agree with the other members who said this is not a colour cast issue but a processing issue for the reasons already explained.  You mentioned you shoot raw.  This is good because one of its benefits is that the white balance setting in the camera is not actually baked into the raw data and so you actually set the WB in whatever raw converter you are using.   Setting the correct WB in the raw converter goes a long way to ending up with accurate, good looking colours in the final image. It's not exactly clear to me how you got the final "unusual" colours in the bird, wire and tree stump but things like this are not too difficult to fix.

In this situation I opened up your posted image in ACR and used the WB Tool to reset the WB and colours. I clicked on the, I assume, grey wire and the colours for the bird, wire and tree stump immediately looked much more realistic.  I am assuming that since the bird is a Brown Thrasher, that its feathers on top should be a brownish colour.  I then used a layer mask masking in just the bird with a Hue/Saturation Adjustment layer and a Selective Colour Adjustment Layer that's in Elements+ and PS.

In the Hue/Saturation adjustment layer I bumped up the hue slider on the Master channel and lowered the saturation in the red channel.  In the Selective Color adjustment layer I adjusted the Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black sliders for the reds to fine tune the brown coloured feathers.  On my monitor I now have nice looking brown colours in the feathers.