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Correcting color and white balance

Correcting color and white balance - Photoshop Tutorial

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Correcting color and white balance

Let's take a look at how we can correct and customize color using Adobe Camera Raw. Before we get to Camera Raw, I want to highlight a few things in regards to color temperature. So I have this JPEG file here in Adobe Bridge. And I want to take this file to full screen. Or there's a handy little shortcut that you can use to do that in Bridge, it's the Spacebar key. Press the Spacebar key and you can view one of your photographs in Full screen mode as I've done here. Or again I wanted to highlight this slide just to reiterate this whole idea that there are different color temperatures. And you know what? We already know this intuitively. There's color temperature, which is cool like with this photograph that was captured early in the morning. There's also color temperature, which is warm like with this picture, which was captured at the end of a day. And often when we're working in Camera, we're working to either cool an image off or warm it up or perhaps to find that neutral point…

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