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Adjusting white balance - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
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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Welcome to the digital darkroom1m 44s
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Introducing Camera Raw7m 40s
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Adjusting white balance7m
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Selecting and synchronizing images6m 9s
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Making automatic adjustments and saving changes7m 19s
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Creating and managing snapshots8m 23s
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Adjusting the Exposure value6m 24s
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Working with clipping warnings5m 4s
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Adjusting Brightness and Contrast7m 35s
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Vibrance, Saturation, and Clarity9m 25s
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Recovery and Fill Light6m 57s
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Using the Graduated Filter tool7m 2s
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Painting edits with the Adjustment Brush9m 43s
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Straighten, crop, and geometric distortions7m 49s
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Applying manual lens corrections7m 19s
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Vignette and chromatic aberrations6m 21s
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Introducing the Tone Curves6m 9s
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Parametric curves and targeted adjustments6m 26s
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Correcting a low-noise photograph7m 35s
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Sharpening and high-noise photos8m 25s
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Selective Hue/Saturation adjustments5m 34s
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Selective Luminance adjustments5m 39s
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Adding grain and vignetting effects5m 22s
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Mixing a subjective black-and-white image7m 53s
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Colorizing with the Split Toning options4m 29s
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Opening a raw image as a Smart Object5m 39s
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Camera Raw wrap-up8m 38s
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