welcome guys this is the second time i've tried to record this because I
had some technological issues but never mind we're going to make the white
balance look okay because pictures don't look good if the white balance is not
right and it's something that people are struggling with so we're going to cover
it in this video right now
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you we're going to be looking at this picture which was taken in I think 2015
of this adorable dog who you probably will have seen before if you've seen any
of my work and this is the white balance kind of similar ish to something that
came out the camera I've extrapolated on that because I need to make sure that
this is super clear this is the kind of thing that is coming out of a lot of
cameras weirdly they all seem to kind of be Nikon entry level but that's not
really the point the point is how do we fix it how do we make it look good do
you need to fix it how do you know and all of those questions are gonna be
answered we're gonna start now so we're in Lightroom classic not the
mobile one because I don't use that what we're going to be using is two little
tools let's get into those right now so let me close my other tabs we have got
HSL/color and we have got basic open do not touch the basic just yet
unless you are an expert at setting white balance in which case you might not
probably really be watching this video but this is what we're gonna
do we're going to click on the little eyedropper thing and what that
does is if you look at the sliders over here when we hover over areas of the
picture sliders light up to tell us what the most prominent color is behind that
and what we want to do is find a mid-tone or a gray in the dog's coat so
we've got multiple areas of grey on the dog we've got the ears we've got the
face we've got the white we've got all sorts so we're gonna go ahead and hover
over a few of them and see what comes up so we've got greens we've got aquas we
have got greens we've got a aquas we've got blue we've got aqua we've got blue
and aqua so we know that we're more on the blue side off the yellow-blue scale
and more on the green side of the red-green scale so we can put that back there we
don't need you anymore and go up here to our white balance sliders the first
one that I'm going to grab is the tint slider because I like starting on the
green and the pink you can choose whatever you want to do
and I'm gonna just zoom in a little bit and look really closely with my eyes to
find some green now I found green I found green in the fringing on this
patch on the dog's head and I've also found green up here so I'm gonna focus
really really seriously on this area and ignore I'm gonna completely ignore
everything else so really zoning on that grab hold of
your slider and then start to move it and you want to move just until that
particular area that you're looking at looks neutral so that's kind of about
there I think I would say yep I'm gonna stop that so my area that I was looking
at now looks neutral in terms of green and pink then the next thing that I'm
gonna do is grab my blue-yellow Kelvin slider and go ahead and start to look at
the blue areas and make sure that they go neutral everybody knows I like a warm
image so don't judge me because I'm gonna make this warmer than it needs to
be essentially you want to stop just past where you think you should stop
but I'm probably gonna go a little bit further than that about there and just
like that this picture went from looking pretty damn crap to pretty damn hot so
let's look at this is where we were if you can see here and this is where we
are wowsers so that was fun wasn't it because that's quite a marked change
we're gonna go ahead and just do some little teeny weeny fine-tuning I've just
gone ahead and done some extra little things nothing particularly
dramatic and then I just want to come back around to you with the greens
because if you wanted to you could change the color of the green by using
the hue slider over here and that will change the color of the greens then what
you can also do is change the luminance so that's kind of like the brightness
and the darkness of the greens and before and after of
our little green tweak there so it looks a little bit more like an autumn scene
and to be fair I'd kind of stop that because I think that's absolutely fine
changed my mind I don't like that green I just don't like it I'm gonna make it
more vibrant because I don't like things to be boring I'm just not that kind of
person in fact I think I've probably gone too far in the hue I don't mind
green I don't people don't like green I don't mind green Green is fine so this
is where we started and this is where we are that's kind of it guys not really
gonna go much further play with the sliders in the HSL/color section
and play with your white balance sliders don't overdo it but overdo it a little
bit because I prefer that personally everybody's different and that's
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