Remove colour casts

Counteract a colour cast in a raw file using White Balance presets or the one-click White Balance tool

To a camera, daylight is blue and indoor light is orange. When shooting in various lighting conditions a camera's Auto White balance (AWB) setting attempts to get white details in the scene looking white. If the camera balances the whites correctly then the resulting photograph will be tint-free and display the true colours of the scene. However, sometimes a photo will still look too cold or too warm (as is the case in the starting file for this tutorial). In chapter 4 we demonstrated how to correct colour casts in compressed JPEG files. This can involve using an eyedropper to sample areas that should be a neutral white. If the sampled white is tinted blue then the eyedropper will warm it up to make the white look white. This will…

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