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White balance workflow

White balance workflow

- [Eran] Hey, this is Eran Stern and welcome to another episode of A E Weekly. In this tip I'll share with you my favorite way to white balance a clip using Camera Raw in Photoshop and After Effects. So I have this clip here of Neuschwanstein Castle in southwest Bavaria, Germany. I probably mispronounced it, but for what it's worth this castle was served as the inspiration for Disneyland's Sleeping Beauty castle, but as we can see in this shot we have a very pronounced blue color cast that I wish to remove and neutralize it as best as possible. So first let's pause the playback and take a look at the tools that After Effects has to offer us. I'm going to select this layer, go to the effect controls, and here I've already applied the Lumetri Color and the CC Color Neutralizer, which is currently turned off. So let's start with the Lumetri Color and we're going to twiddle down the basic correction. And here we have a white…

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