Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
Step Two:
There are three ways to change the white
balance in your photo, and the first is to
simply choose one of the built-in White
Balance presets. Fairly often, that's all you
need to do to color correct your image.
Just click on the White Balance pop-up
menu, and you'll see a list of white bal-
ance settings you could have chosen in
the camera. Just choose the preset that
most closely matches what the lighting
situation was when you originally took
the photo (for example, if you took the
shot in the shade of a tree, you'd choose
the Shade preset). Here I tried each pre-
set and Flash seemed to look best—
it removed the bluish tint and made the
background gray again. (
Note:
This is
the one main area where the processing
of RAW and JPEG or TIFF images differs.
You'll only get this full list of white balance
presets with RAW images. With JPEGs or
TIFFs, your only choice is As Shot or Auto
white balance.)
Step Three:
The second method is to use the
Temperature and Tint sliders (found right
below the White Balance preset menu).
The bars behind the sliders are color
coded so you can see which way to drag
to get which kind of color tint. What I
like to do is use the built-in presets to
get close (as a starting point), and then
if my color is just a little too blue or too
yellow, I drag in the opposite direction.
So, in this example, the Flash preset was
close, but made it a little too yellow, so I
dragged the Temperature slider a little
bit toward blue and the Tint slider
a tiny bit toward magenta.
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