From the course: Exploring Photography: Shooting in Raw Mode
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Exploring white balance and highlight recovery
From the course: Exploring Photography: Shooting in Raw Mode
Exploring white balance and highlight recovery
- Here in Camera Raw, white balance is at the top of our controls because it's a fairly critical edit to make. The white balance controls in your raw converter might be actually all that you need to get the color in your image where you want it. The temperature slider alters the color in your image from cool to warm, while the tint slider makes very subtle adjustments from green to purple. Temperature is the far more critical adjustment. The tint slider is used simply to reverse any unwanted green or purple shift that the temperature slider might introduce. If you've ever tried to correct bad white balance using your normal image editor, you've probably found this very difficult. The color shift that appears when white balance is wrong isn't uniform through the entire color range of an image, so you might be able to correct one part of an image at the cost of another part. What's more, the odds that you'll ever get the color looking exactly right anywhere in the image are pretty…
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