From the course: Photography Foundations: Night and Low Light
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Correcting white balance of JPEG images
From the course: Photography Foundations: Night and Low Light
Correcting white balance of JPEG images
If you were shooting JPEG images, you'll still need to correct your white balance most likely, if you've been shooting in low light, unless you were able to get an accurate white balance while you were shooting. Unfortunately, you don't have as much latitude for white balance correction when you're working with a JPEG file, but in Photoshop, correcting white balance in a JPEG image is much easier than it used to be, because you can now actually do that in Camera Raw. Now that may sound little strange, but take a look at this. I have a JPEG of one of these images here in Bridge, and you can see that the white balance is definitely off. It's way too red. If I go up to the File menu in Bridge, there's an option to Open in Camera Raw-- or I can hit Command+R or Ctrl+R--and when I do that, this JPEG images is actually opened in the Camera Raw dialog box just as if there was a RAW file. However, some of these sliders don't work the same way as they would if I was working with a RAW file…
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Correcting white balance8m 49s
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Correcting white balance with a gray card3m 50s
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Correcting white balance of JPEG images2m
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Blending exposures with different white balances7m 13s
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Brightening shadows9m 8s
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Reducing noise7m 44s
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Sharpening9m 14s
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Correcting depth-of-field issues9m 32s
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Correcting night skies6m 39s
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