Set the PERFECT WHITE BALANCE with this LIGHTROOM TRICK 

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This was actually a useful tip, and it wasn't buried in 10 min intros and shilling useless crap. Thanks mate - I mean that!

You explained white balance in a way that a beginner can understand. Thank you!

This is probably the best video that I have seen on setting white balance! Well done!!

Thank you ❤❤ always a pleasure to watch your rest videos!

Short, sweet, and to the point. Nice explanation.

Love seeing new ideas as to how to edit a photo. this one opens up a whole new perspective for me. Thank you.

Thank you for nice useful tips. I have one tip for you. When you want darkened sky by linear gradient but don't want affect trees, you can intersect gradient mask with sky selection ;)

Very useful suggestions. I mostly do B&W film photography, and I scan the negatives and convert these using Negative Lab Pro. Through this I am very used to adjusting the contrast, brightness and tones in NLP. Now you show me these techniques for digital colour photos, in combination with the temp and tint sliders, I recognise a lot and it gives me inspiration to try such things for digital colour photos as well 🙂

great tips, I learned to adjust white balance on my snow photos with lots of blue into more white tones using the histogram as you did.

Another excellent video. I always learn something new. Thanks for sharing.

What a perfect timing! Thank you Christian❤❤ was struggling with that a few hours ago

Christian, Thank you for your wonderful presentation of white balance in snowy view! Your white balance approaches the beautiful effect on the trees and sky, in which you help me a lot to understand how a white winter can be seen in a different way!

So many great tips in sucha short video. Amazing. Thank you!

This is great. Never considered using the histogram in LR or PS to help with WB. Thank you for sharing this awesome video!

Wow, that is a gorgeous photo Christan! One I wish I had taken myself. Another very informative and very educational video. I have been watching your videos for a good while, and I have learned a lot from you. Keep up the good work, I always look forward to your new videos coming out.

겨울 풍경의 화이트 밸런스 조정을 색다른 관점으로 배운거 같습니다. 좋은 교육 영상 감사 드립니다.

thanks again for this new video and especially for the tip about temperature correction.

Creativity IS Learning and you make this easy! I so admire your work. With love from Atlanta.

Great work! Thank you for the presentation.

Thanks Christian. It's amazing how well you can explain this! I have learned so much in such a short time.

Awesome guide thanks 😊

Wow, phenomenonal information! Thank you!

Excellent video on Editing White Balance!!! Thanks Christian.

Klasse Christian. Den WB Trick kannte ich noch nicht. Vielen Dank für dieses Video👍

Thanks man, I learned something new

That’s very good and very simple. Thank you

Amaizing editing technique !

Thank you my friend, very very helpful, and even more clear. Great power of a simple explication, excellent tutorial indeed

Great tip. Thank you for sharing 💪🏽

Histogram in LR is a very helpful tool. Thanks for the demonstration.

Excellent tutorial, thank you

That was fantastic! Thank you…. Subscribed on that alone!

Beautiful, I love the easy-to-use approach of your style when playing with colors. Tyvm, I have been learning a lot with your tutorials.

Excellent tutorial. Thanks.

Amazing image, beautiful scene. The end result of your editing is superb. Your method of instruction is perfect. Always learn a lot from you. Thanks for posting.

Well done Christian! Another fantastic video. Very interesting use of histogram to define the white balance. Excellent shot.

Exactly just my workflow, except the white balance part! Thank you for educating me! I was hope you take the contrast down a little bit..and yes, you just did it! My anxiety calmed down :D

Thank you very much! I saw a lot of useful nuances.

Gorgeous image!

Perfect work done !!!

Great video as always Christian and some very useful tips

Great result!!!

thank you! I ll try to implement this ❤👍👍

Amazing, thanks for this 🙏🙏

What an excellent technique!! Very informative❤

Very informative. Thank you

Maravilloso !!!!! Perfect !!!!! Many thanks !!!

Good job Christian!!

Great video, plus beautiful photo.

Great video, I like your style of edit and showing us. Do make more of theses :)

Very helpful, thank you

Thanks, very informative

Another great tutorial!

I’ve been using this white balance technique for a couple of year now but have not seen anyone else demonstrate it. Except video.

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Thank you Christian for useful video and file that I could test it. It really worked perfectly in LR and also in ACDSee. By the way I found 4 small points in the photo, probably there is some dust on your lens.

Great Video!

beautiful beautiful beautiful and beautiful!! Christian than you so much!!!!!!

Danke Shoen. Sehr Gut tutorial !!!!!!

Thank you!

Amazing!

Thank you, I really learned a lot from this, it's a different way of thinking to mine :) What surprised me, and what I must question, is why you didn't simply just use the White Balance Tool (W) to white balance an area of the snow - which is most of the foreground. I tried that, and it gave me a colour Temp of 11,250 and Tint -2. Perhaps a little too much warm adjustment added, with a slight yellow bias. Interestingly, it also moved the colours in the Histogram closer together, similarly to the corrections you applied. I then applied your other adjustments step-by-step to my 'W' white balanced image but didn't quite get exactly the same results. TBH I didn't spend enough time on it to find where the big difference was, but it would be interesting to read what you would have done differently if you had started with the White Balance Tool. I guess it just boils down to just different ways of doing the same thing :)

Gracias

Very useful

Brilliant results! I have been struggling post-processing this exact kind of scene, wondering why the "belt of Venus" is not coming through. Off to revisit some recent edits, thank you!

This is such a freaking nice photo though

I think You made a nice job of that image

Geiler Tipp!

Tack!

Thanks for your easy to understand approach to setting white balance. Would you also use this approach for a photo where the subject has white elements in a colored background? Also, how do you determine how much color grading to do?

From my observation, aligning the RGB peaks doesn’t always work, if one colour is very dominant in one of the either shadows, mid-tones or highlights. I was editing an image taken whilst hiking, and the image had a lot the sky showing. The sky was predominantly blue as it was decently clear day. So blues will dominated the highlights on the histogram - and trying to align the peaks created a massively yellow hue across the image (too warm). So I instead focused on making sure the Red and Green peaks were within 1% of each other, and ignored the blue peak. So how would you better apply this rule/suggestion when trying to get the prefect WB? Seems like in the end, it comes down to using your own visual judgment. One thing that someone told me, is to place your mouse on something that is meant to be white, and then make the histogram adjustments that way. By placing your mouse on that white item, you will then see the histogram values for that area - and then simply try and make sure the values are within 1% of each other.

Wonderful edit....and I learned techniques i did not know 👍👍👍

I follow your editing religiously as I am big fan of CR . Excellent capture Christian, where abouts is the scene?

Thanks, this is very helpful for landscapes, as I shoot mostly people and am usually focused on skin tones. I have 1 question though: why did you use the calibration slider at the end - ie, what does this provide that the individual colors section doesn’t?

Hi, Thank you very much for your video. In your opinion, can you use this technique for all photo taken in every hours of the day? (sunrise, sunset, etc), Tx

Hey Christian: I am very proficient with LR but I learned a few new things from you, so thanks!. Question though: I don't understand your rationale for the sharpening step you always do in the end. It creates images that are too punchy. I think of the sharpening in LR as an "input sharpening", and the output sharpening can go on top of this depending of whether the outpout is online or print.

Hi Chris... Let me take this opportunity to say that you are doing an excellent job.. And have improved HUMONGOUSLY in your presentation with no dipp in your Knowledge in this field. Have downloaded many videos for future references. OK here my query is that while setting up the WB as per your video, I fail to wonder what happens when there are two peaks in the RGB. which one do have to manoeuvre or just eye ball it accordingly.. TIA.. Appreciate

A little constructive criticism, While I liked this tutorial, I felt like it was a follow along and not teaching the WHY. For example, why not click the eye dropper instead of manually matching the RGB in the histogram? Is it bad, or incorrect. Why lower the exposure only to bring up the whites instead the other way around. I've been doing this many years and know why myself, but I also remember how frustrating it used to be following tutorials that didn't teach the why. I'd end up learning something but finding out there was a much better way of doing things by playing around or from other sources. I'm only taking the time to comment now because I feel you have great potential as a teacher. All the best my friend.

I see where your histogram displays only the three color channels. Mine had a white or light gray overlay over the three channels, making it difficult to see how the colors are aligning. Is there a setting in Lightroom to remove that overlay? Thanks!

Thanks! How would you apply this technique to an image that has very little white or mid-grey?

It´s a fantasy!!!

Interesting approach, but this only works if the scene is predominantly white (or a neutral grey), and often snow reflects the sky so it should be blueish. Of course, it all depends upon if you want the colour to be "accurate" or an artistic interpretation.

Hi Christian, wie hast Du im Histogram den Luminance Wert ausgeblendet bekommen? Der überlagert ansonsten die Farben. Dank Dir

you can use scroll wheel to adjust sliders - just click on them and scroll up/down - no need to drag the sliders :)

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Would using the WB eyedropper also work in this scenario?

Is there any rule around "sharpness radius". Is there any universal rule on why would I want to bring it back to zero?

Do you always do the sharpening like that? Full detail, minimise radius?

What do you do if there are several peaks and if you aligne one the other one separates?

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So what comes to your mind when you are decreasing the exposure and increasing the whites? Wouldn’t it be the same just to decrease the blacks ? I sometimes don’t get the reason for tweaking around some sliders …:(

With a white scene like this why wouldn’t you use the sample white balance tool to start and then do manual adjustments?

How many photos could you edit/day in this way?

Next time show me how to do it in automatic mode

I really like your videos, but the blip sound whenever you highlight something is incredibly annoying. I cannot remember it in your other videos - please don’t do it!