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Step Five:
So now that you've chosen a preset
that's kind of “in the ballpark,” you can
use the Temp and Tint sliders to dial in a
better looking final White Balance setting.
I zoomed in here on the Basic panel so you
can get a nice close-up of the Temp and
Tint sliders, because Adobe did something
really great to help you out here—they
colorized the slider bars, so you can see
what will happen if you drag in a particular
direction. See how the left side of the Temp
slider is blue, and the right side graduates
over to yellow? That tells you exactly what
the slider does. So, without any further
explanation, which way would you drag
the Temp slider to make the photo more
blue? To the left, of course. Which way
would you drag the Tint slider to make
the image more magenta? See, it's a little
thing, but it's a big help.
Here's the White Balance temperature
settings when you choose the Flash preset
To make the g ray backg round look less
brown (warm), I dragged the Temp slider
away from yellow toward blue (see Step Six)
Step Six:
Again, after choosing the Flash preset, the
background looks a little brownish (too
warm), so click-and-drag the Temp slider
slowly to the left (toward blue), until the
brown is removed from the background
and it looks gray (of course, don't drag too
far to the left, or it will turn blue again).
In the example you see here, I dragged
to the left until it looked right (I started
with the temperature at 5500. When I was
done, the Temp reading was 5023, as seen
in Step Five). That's all there is to it—use a
White Balance preset as your starting place,
then use the Temp slider to tweak it until
it looks right. Now, if you feel the image is
too magenta, then try dragging the Tint
slider away from magenta, toward green
(again, drag slowly and don't go too far).
The Flash preset's temperature
setting of 5500 makes the
background look brownish
After dragging a little bit toward blue,
to a temperature setting of 5023, the
brown background turns gray
 
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