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This Simple Editing Trick Helps Correct White Balance in ANY Photo

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White balance is one of the most important settings to adjust when editing your photography. Using the correct white balance is crucial if you want your photos to appear natural and realistic. For many, it can take years of practice to train your eye to fix the white balance perfectly, but with this trick, most beginner or intermediate photographers will easily be able to perfect their white balance setting in post-processing.
This tutorial is done in Lightroom Classic, but the steps taken in this video can easily be applied to just about any other photo editing software on the market today.

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28 авг 2024

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@pablojarkovich 12 дней назад

You just changed the game for me. In some cases it is just extremely hard to eye ball white balance. But this trick elevated the quality of my work. Thanks a lot for that!

@AustinJamesJackson 11 дней назад

Glad to hear!! Good luck!

@ryanreynolds3884 2 месяца назад

Super helpful! Thank you!

@AustinJamesJackson 2 месяца назад

Glad it was helpful!

@brucekraft744 2 месяца назад

WB has always been my biggest bugaboo. This is a technique that I will try next time I open LR. Thanks for posting.

@AustinJamesJackson 2 месяца назад

Glad to help!

@reefhugger100 2 месяца назад

Interesting! This demystified white balance for me and gives a clear process. Thanks.

@AustinJamesJackson 2 месяца назад

You're very welcome!

@DA-lp4rh 2 месяца назад

Nice technique. I about real estate and often get weird WB issues - I find that using the RGB histogram and using the WB sliders to line up the mid and highlight areas RGB peaks works really well. It’s easy to see what correction are needed without even looking a the photo, where your tent and temp are and how the RGB histogram colors line up when you move the sliders. This also works if you want to just move the WB with the RGB curve channels

@AustinJamesJackson 2 месяца назад

Awesome! I’ll have to give that a try.

@stevec1256xp 2 месяца назад

For me, white balance for a stunning well composed and exposed landscape is rather subjective to begin with. The strength of a landscape is the lighting; balancing the highlights, midtones and shadows to tell a story. What I would like to see is an approach to white balance for portraits and street photography.

@AustinJamesJackson 2 месяца назад

I agree that much of photography is subjective, but I definitely think there is a small range of “neutral” white balance that looks realistic.

@ericpecquerie4868 4 дня назад

Interesting, no doubt.

@AustinJamesJackson 3 дня назад

Thanks!

@JeffStudley 2 месяца назад

Totally subjective but totally works. You can really tailor your image to how you like it, as opposed to the Eye Dropper tool. Good info, sir!

@AustinJamesJackson 2 месяца назад

Thanks!

@lesladbrook4508 2 месяца назад

A great video, I have seen something like this before, but this was a very clear and useful presentation Austin, thank you. I will be using this a lot now. I just tried it on a very difficult Aurora image and it has worked well, I was struggling with it before then. 🙂

@AustinJamesJackson 2 месяца назад

Glad it was helpful!

@jonlindsay1050 2 месяца назад

Thanks for showing this technique but it's very subjective. I've been a pro photographer for 20 years and I've learnt to always take the actual colour temperature while taking a shoot. Either via a white card or phone app. Makes life 100% easier when your editing.

@AustinJamesJackson 2 месяца назад

If you have the time to do it in the field, you can. But light always changes and setting it and the field and assuming it’s correct is a lot more work, so in my opinion it’s best to adjust afterward.

@fathampeak 2 месяца назад

Excellent, will try this, but how does the dropper tool work, thank you?

@AustinJamesJackson 2 месяца назад

The eye dropper tool never works well for me to be honest. I never use it.

@edgar21xd81 2 месяца назад

Im not used to commenting on YT, but MAN, I feel like this was a total good investment of my time. I have been struggling with color cast for years, and this technique seems to be promising. Thanks for sharing this info.

@AustinJamesJackson 2 месяца назад

Thank you so much! I really appreciate that and glad it helps.

@robertspicer2947 2 месяца назад

I take it that the simple trick is to screw with it any way you want until it looks good to you ?

@AustinJamesJackson 2 месяца назад

For sure!

@robertleeimages 2 месяца назад

I rarely shoot in AWB because i read a couple of years ago that AWB removes color casts you wanted to keep, and AWB can give you different results even when photographing the same scene and also when doing a panorama. Your camera can lock onto an area of the shot that’s not meant to be neutral (e.g., a yellow wall), and then try to balance it. When this happens, instead of neutralizing the color casts, your camera will create some of its own.

@AustinJamesJackson 2 месяца назад

If you're shooting in RAW, it doesn't really matter what white balance you use in the field. You can change it in post with no consequence.

@robertleeimages 2 месяца назад

@@AustinJamesJackson yes i shoot raw but anything during the daytime i take my first image set on the sunny wb then set that as a custom wb in camera, i also have a custom profile because most ie: landscape, auto and standard over saturate the scene and either have too much contrast or not enough and then if there is something white in the image i use the eye dropper and click on the white object to adjust wb and its almost always very close to or the same as before using the eye dropper.

@fathampeak 2 месяца назад

@@robertleeimages I found the same, now I set the WB in K in the field, usually 5200 for sunny day (Canon 5DIV). There are no color casts and in LR I can adjust as necessary, way better than AWB, I do many panos as well.