Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC - Manual (Page 163)

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Processing and developing photos
Last updated 4/20/2015
Set the white balance
You can adjust the white balance of a photo to reflect the lighting conditions under which it was taken—daylight,
tungsten, flash, and so on.
You can either choose a white balance preset option or click a photo area that you want to specify as a neutral color.
Lightroom adjusts the white balance setting, and then you can fine-tune it using the sliders provided.
Note: White balance preset options are available only for raw and DNG photos. White balance for all photos can be edited
using the sliders.
Choose a white balance preset option
❖ In the Basic panel of the Develop module, choose an option from the WB pop-up menu. As Shot uses the camera’s
white balance settings, if they are available. Auto calculates the white balance based on the image data.
Lightroom applies the white balance setting and moves the Temp and Tint sliders in the Basic panel accordingly. Use
these sliders to fine-tune the color balance. See
Fine-tune the white balance using the Temp and Tint controls .
Note: If the camera’s white balance settings are not available, then the Auto option is the default.
Specify a neutral area in the photo
1 In the Basic panel of the Develop module, click the White Balance Selector tool to select it, or press the W key.
2 Move the White Balance Selector into an area of the photo that should be a neutral light gray. Avoid spectral
highlights or areas that are 100% white.
3 Set options in the toolbar as needed.
Auto Dismiss Sets the White Balance Selector tool to dismiss automatically after clicking only once in the photo.
Show Loupe Displays a close-up view and the RGB values of a sampling of pixels under the White Balance Selector.
Scale Slider Zooms the close-up view in the Loupe.
Done Dismisses the White Balance Selector tool, and the pointer changes to the Hand or Zoom-in tool by default.
The Navigator displays a preview of the color balance as you move the White Balance Selector over different pixels.
4 When you find an appropriate area, click it.
The Temp and Tint sliders in the Basic panel adjust to make the selected color neutral, if possible.
Fine-tune the white balance using the Temp and Tint controls
❖ In the Basic panel of the Develop module, adjust the Temp and Tint sliders.
Temp Fine-tunes the white balance using the Kelvin color temperature scale. Move the slider to the left to make the
photo appear cooler, and right to warm the photo colors.
You can also set a specific Kelvin value in the Temp text box to match the color of the ambient light. Click the current
value to select the text box and enter a new value. For example, photographic tungsten lights are often balanced at
3200 Kelvin. If you shoot under photo tungsten lights and set the image temperature to 3200, your photos should
appear color balanced.
One of the benefits of working with raw files is that you can adjust the color temperature as if you were changing a
setting in a camera during capture, allowing a broad range of settings. When working with JPEG, TIFF, and PSD
files, you work in a scale of -100 to 100 rather than the Kelvin scale. Non-raw files such as JPEG or TIFF include the
temperate setting in the file, so the temperate scale is more limited.