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Color balance for creative effect

Color balance for creative effect - Photoshop Tutorial

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Color balance for creative effect

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- [Instructor] White balance adjustments are most commonly used to remove a color cast and create a more neutral color balance for an image. The white balance controls, however, as well as some other tools in Adobe Camera Raw or Lightroom can also be used as a creative effect to yield a more interpretive result, where an obvious shift in the color balance of a scene may help to suggest a mood or add to the story of a particular image. So I already have the unionhall.dng file open in Camera Raw, and I want to explore what I can do with some white balance presets and then some other adjustments to create a different result. I want to create a result that looks a lot colder and kind of more moody and more lonely. So I'm going to come over to the white balance preset menu and I'll choose auto, and that makes a fairly slight change. Here's the before and here's the after, and I'm doing that just by tapping the letter P on…

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