I always shoot my images in RAW format. I love the quality and the control it gives me. For a perfectionist (or control freak) like me, RAW rocks... :-)
But looking through my old files, I found many pictures that were shot in JPEG format and many of them were taken not with a good white balance (sigh...). In a self defense mode (smile...), I did not know how to control or correct the white balance back then. Throughout my experience, getting a correct white balance is extremely important as it can be the one thing that makes or brakes your photograph.
Perhaps you have tried to photograph indoor with artificial lighting from a lamp and you noticed that your picture turned out kind of yellow? Well luckily it´s pretty easy to correct it. All you need is Photoshop.
In my workshops I cover a lot about white balance as it is such an important subject. My own images truly became much better when I learn to control the white balance. Do you have JPEG images with white balance that looks wonky? Don't press the delete button yet! Today, I am sharing a free video tutorial with you so you can rescue those JPEG images in a few easy steps.
In this tutorial I use Photoshop CS5. If you are using Photoshop Elements, come back tomorrow and I´ll post another a video for you as well. :-)
Thank you so much for that demo, I have forget to adjust my whit balance when in doors and end up with that yellow tinge to my photos, so this is a great tip to correct it. :)
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry I've never been here before so may be doing something wrong but i cant se where to view the video (and I NEED wb help!!). Can someone tell me where it is thanks xx
ReplyDeleteHi Claire
ReplyDeleteThe video is just above in the post. If you can´t see it try to update your Adobe Flash Player program - maybe that will help.
If this does not help you properly need to install Active-x + java plugins.
To see if you have Java on your computer, click here to test; http://www.java.com/en/download/testjava.jsp
If you don´t have it you need to download it, you can read more here http://www.ehow.com/how_5125387_install-java-plugins.html
Before you download java your need to install Active-x, read more here; http://www.ehow.com/how_5112825_install-activex.html
Thx, great tutorial! Thank you for sharing, your are lovely.
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Wow...this will allow me to go back and play with some of my favorite old photos of my girls before I really paid attention to technical details when taking pictures. This is great...thank you!!
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