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White balance for mood or color correction

White balance for mood or color correction - Lightroom Tutorial

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White balance for mood or color correction

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- [Instructor] Adjusting the white balance of an image shifts all of the colors contained with in it. White balance determines how overall warm or cool a photo looks and it can be used to fix color tone, or change the mood of an image. White balance adjustments are found in the color panel within edit, we can open the edit panel with the e key and we could jump to the color panel with the command 2 or the control 2. I'll collapse the light panel here so that we can see the color panel. Lightroom measures white balance with these two sliders, the temperature slider for ranges between blue and yellow and the tint slider for ranges between green and red. You'll find that you most often move the temp slider. Let's just slide this around and see how quickly the mood or the color of this image changes. If I make it cold, it looks like a completely different photo. The challenge with an image like this one is, how do you know…

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