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Adjusting white balance

Adjusting white balance - Photoshop Tutorial

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Adjusting white balance

Over the course of this exercise and the next I am going to show you a couple of tasks that are handled much better by Camera RAW than they are by Photoshop itself, starting with White Balance. White Balance is a feature that is accommodated extremely well by Camera RAW and extremely badly by Photoshop. There is the Color Balance command. You may recall from our early color discussions back in the fundamental portion of the series. We've got the Color Balance adjustment layer, and we also have variations but that doesn't even work on the Mac these days. It just works on the PC. Then you've got the Lab mode and that's basically it, whereas inside Camera RAW White Balance is handled beautifully as we are about to see. Also, Camera RAW allows you to modify multiple images all at once. So, as long as the images were shot under similar lighting conditions and using similar exposure values and so on, then you can apply the very same settings to a bunch of images in one fell swoop. You may…

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