hey guys welcome or welcome back thanks so much
for joining me today we're going to look at white balance using curves
so if what I just said basically made you go what an earth is she talking about don't
panic essentially there is a method for doing white balance that I tend to use a little bit
of the time especially if I've got a black white or grey dog and it's something that I've not
covered before on YouTube channel so I thought you know what I'm gonna give you guys this tip
so this technique is super straightforward I've just gone ahead and opened this a photograph of
Bryt from when she was eight weeks old up into photoshop I'm just gonna quickly clean up the
extra little bits that are hanging about all over the place it's not been de-noised yet
but the image is absolutely fine so I just want to take out the main bulk of it now I'm not gonna
run my whole workflow on but I'm thinking you know this is a little bit cool and I can't work out the
white balance now you could of course go ahead and work up into camera raw filter and use the
white balance dropper tool or if you wanted to you could go ahead and go for a colour balance
and basically manually do it by eye but that's not the method that we're going to use today in fact
one of the easiest methods that I found and it allows you to use your masks super easily to
alter specific tones and colours in different things easy to actually go ahead and use curves
so as always we go down into the adjustment layers section down here we grab a curves adjustment
layer so up here you've got your curves adjustment layer and you can see all of the different
settings that live within curves as well as the curve itself let's go ahead and bring this up to
fit the screen a little bit better and then the process for doing this is so easy it's unreal
so on the left hand side you have your little hand tool where you can click and pick stuff that
is there there is also the blacks mid tones and highlights so what that does is essentially that
balances the exposure nicely but the middle one you can actually use for white balance
so if you click on the middle eyedropper there that gives you an eyedropper on your mouse and
then all you have to do is click on something that should be neutral grey now on little Bryt
here she's got a black coat on her head so I'm just going to pick something from the bluer side
the side and the shade I'm going to click one of that side and that technically has a reset
the white balance now that doesn't mean that you have to stop there like you do in camera raw you
can keep drippy droppy picking all over the place to find a white balance that you feel really suits
the image for me I think I want it to be a little bit warmer anyway so I think that I will probably
go for there I think so the before and after of that that's before and that's after let's go ahead
and grab another photo and run another example with a different subject so here we have a another
image this time it's of a grey horse so a white horse and this particular horse was shot in kind
of like after golden hour almost it already kind of gone into the shade so it's quite blue light
instead of going ahead and into camera raw filter we go adjustment layer we go curves and with the
curves open we just click the middle eyedropper there find an area that should be middle grey
and give it a click that will immediately set the grey point for us and correct
the white balance and so that is how to alter your white balance using curves super straightforward
little technique and hopefully it will add another option to your editing repertoire
let's go ahead and see what this image looked like when it was all finished my cute little
adorable Bryt thanks so much for watching and I will see you all again really really soon