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Understanding the white-balance correction options

Understanding the white-balance correction options - Photoshop Tutorial

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Understanding the white-balance correction options

- Earlier, you saw me correct the white balance in this RAW image. I have made a JPEG copy of the original image, and that's what this is right here, and I've done that because I want you to see the difference between correcting white balance in a RAW file and a JPEG file. Lightroom, Camera RAW, Aperture, iPhoto, they all give you the same white balance interface, whether you're working with RAWs or JPEGs. So, I can use the same controls here when I'm working with a non-RAW image. That doesn't have to be JPEG, that could be a TIFF file, a PSD, anything like that. But, though the tools look the same, they behave pretty differently. Again, I've got my "As Shot" pop-up menu here, but I have far fewer options in it. I don't have all of those presets, and one reason I don't have those presets is that my temperature slider is no longer a Kelvin slider. So if we go back to the RAW image, you can see I'm at 7100 here, let me switch back to "As Shot". You can see that I'm at 4850. When I come…

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