In this video we are going to learn how
to fix white balance in Lightroom
sometimes in your images you might have
observed color cast or maybe they are a
little bit bluish or yellowish or greenish
or a little bit magenta in this video
I'm going to share with you two simple
tricks, two simple methods that can easily
get your color casts out of the way and
bring back true colors to your images
fixing your white balance is one of the
first steps that you do before going
further into editing your image so
without any further ado let's get
started
hey there! this is Unmesh and finally we are in the
develop module remember in previous
videos we were working in library module
organizing images that can be boring but
this is the most interesting part we are
going to edit our images in develop module
let's go back to the film days let me
explain what development you is back in
the film days you had your negatives and
you used to give your negatives to get it
developed right that's the same with
digital imaging today when you click an
image in raw format it's a raw image you
need to develop it
you cannot just directly give it to your
client unless they require it in raw or
you cannot directly post it in social
media you need to process it and the
processing can be done by developing and
the developing can be done in Lightroom
or any other software that you might be
using so the develop module is all about
developing your digital negative images
yes RAW images are also called digital
negatives the first step into editing
your images is to fix the white balance
set the white balance correctly now what
is white balance if you want to know
what exactly white balance is in
scientific terms
Tony Northrop has an amazing video
explaining the science behind white
balance and color temperatures and all
of that but in this video I'm going to
simply teach you how to set the white
balance right now what is fixing white
balance
well fixing the white balance is nothing
but telling the camera or lightroom or
any other soft feather using which color
to consider white for example I'm
wearing a white shirt black ship but
let's take for an example and wearing a
white shirt and now when i click a
picture from a camera
it gives it a bluish tint now I tell my
computer or the software to consider
this color is white and accordingly it
gives color to everything else in the
room simply setting white balance is
telling the camera the computer what
they should consider
white it's essential to note that why
exactly doesn't mean it has to be
completely bright white it can be great
it just has to be a neutral color so
let's get back into Lightroom in the
development or so here i am in Lightroom
in library module and I have some
examples for you to set the white
balance to go to the develop module you
can just click and go to the develop
module or what you can do you can press
deep deep develop develop module so
president you're in the development you
so the basic panel is the panel in which
we will do ninety percent of editing so
this is the basic panel which has the
white balance the tone and the presence
it is the place where every editor
images ninety percent and then we finish
it off in other panels so this is the
basic panel and adjustments that you
make in this panel is global you cannot
selectively suppose you want to make the
face a little bit brighter
you cannot do that in basic panel basic
panel is for global adjustments whatever
you change in the basic battle changes
throughout the image for this editing
what I want you to do done this right in
why I'm going to tell you why now the
first way to set the white balance is
the eyedropper to so select the
eyedropper tool and click on a place
where you think it must have been great
as you can see in this image it's a blue
gasps due to the blue light that we had
in the stage we shouldn't have that
light that's giving it a blue cast now
what if i want to remove this blue cast
so pick the eyedropper tool which have
already picked click on a place which
should have been gray according to you
now this area should have been great
click it boom you have the original
color that's as simple as ABC now
sometimes when you're picking in this
thing this kind of box that you have can
be distracting so you can just unlock
this and it's it will be gone now
let's go back let's go undo now why did
I ask you to talk this out why did I ask
you to get this out and see the
navigation menu select the eyedropper
tool and when you move the eyedropper
tool around you just look here look at
the navigator look at what happens to
the image when I move around the
eyedropper tool it changes right
it changes so suppose you want to click
here but before clicking you have a
preview that if you click here your
image it will look like this if you
click here your image will look like
this if you click here your images will
look like the one which is a navigator
if you click it look like that so you
get a preview of if you click there what
will happen so as this is a steel stand
it had to be great
and when you move the mouse around it
gives you the perfect colors in the
preview in the navigator
just click here and you have the
original colors let's look at another
example so i have another image here and
also in this image we can go to the
develop module and click around here and
we have the original color and just one
click
but what if you don't have an area that
should have been great now let's check
it in and let's open this image now as
you can see this has a bluish tint and
suppose there is no area which should
have been great what do you do then
let's go to the develop module to do
that remember President we end the
develop module now let's tuck it in and
if you want to make it look more
yellowish drag it to the right if you
want to make it look a bluish drag it to
the left
it's that simple don't worry about color
temperatures don't worry about all that
science if you wanted to look yellow to
the right if you wanted to look blue to
the left now i think for this image this
is the right area to be now if you
wanted to look more greenish to the left
if you wanted to look more magenta ish
to the round now this is the tenth and
the above one is the temperature just
don't worry about what it says
left green right agenda so this seems to
be perfect for me
now I think this images a little bit
darker so let's make it a little bit
brighter and y la it's ready
also i'm going to tell you a bonus way
to set your white balance so let's do it
in this image now first to reset my
balance this is very essential to reset
any setting any slider you just have to
double click on the slider and it's
reset to it resets to its original
position now let's click on the other
slider too and it's reset now to reset
suppose you have gone haywire and you
don't have the time to reset on one
slider one at a time all you can do is
double-click on the WB and it's already
set now let's try a new way of setting
the white balance so as you click here
you have a lot of presets that you can
use to set the white bands you can try
one by one
what works for you what doesn't work for
you
there are a lot of three sets that you
can use for me I think for cloudy works
best
now there's a catch here you can use the
presets extremely easy to use but if
you're importing a JPEG image a jpg
image instead of a wrong image then you
won't have these options you won't have
these presets plus in jpeg your white
balance will be centered in both
temperature and didn't unlike in draw
where we have the white balance set to
the value in which the camera actually
took the picture but still in jpeg you
can move the sliders to the right or to
the left and adjust the white balance
accordingly so that's how you fix white
balance in Lightroom that's all for
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