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Setting proper white balance

Setting proper white balance - Lightroom Tutorial

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Setting proper white balance

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- [Instructor] White balance is one of the most important adjustments you can set. You'll find it down here in the Color section. However, I believe that white balance should be set before you work with the light adjustments. Let's click here and choose from some of the different options. As Shot is what was captured by the camera. Auto is Lightroom's best attempt. And those two may not see as much variation. But you'll see with other choices here, we will definitely get variety. Now, the difference here between As Shot and Auto is subtle but I do like the color of the clouds better. Looking at some of the presets, you can see how it changes things. In this case, if I go with cloudy, that's also pretty accurate. I like this a little bit better than Auto because you see that the clouds aren't quite as washed out. I think that the Cloudy preset is nice and close but if it's not going to work, I can always manually adjust…

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