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The Second Point:
Adjust the White Balance
I think the white balance actually looks
pretty good (after all, it's a sunset shot),
but just for fun, go up to the Basic panel
and try out some of the other White
Balance presets—not to get an accu-
rate white balance, but instead to try a
creative white balance. For example, try
Tung sten and you get the blue image you
see here, which I have to tell ya, looks
pretty good to me, but for the sake of our
project, we'll keep it set at the As Shot
white balance and not change it at all.
The Third Point:
Adjust the Overall Exposure
Now that the white balance is reset to the
original As Shot setting, we can work on
the exposure. There are two things I wish
were different in this photo (well, in the
photo shown in the First Point anyway):
(1) I'd like the beach area to be much
lighter, which I did here by increasing the
Exposure to +2.10, and (2) I'd like the sky
to be much darker (there are a couple of
different ways to get there, and we'll cover
those in a moment, but for now, just drag
the Exposure slider to the right to +2.10
to brighten the entire image, so now you
can see the beach clearly).
Continued
