White Balance

Stop Guessing White Balance in Post — Use a Color Chart Like a Pro
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Stop Guessing White Balance in Post — Use a Color Chart Like a Pro

There’s a specific kind of misery that comes from getting back to your desk after a shoot, opening your RAW files, and realizing every single image has a different color cast. You shot under mixed light, you didn’t account for it, and now you’re staring down a folder of 300 photos that all need individual attention. I’ve been there more times than I’d like to admit. The fix isn’t always in Photoshop’s sliders.

Stop Guessing Your White Balance — Here's How to Fix It in Photoshop (Even on JPEGs)
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Stop Guessing Your White Balance — Here's How to Fix It in Photoshop (Even on JPEGs)

Color is the thing that separates a photo that looks off from one that stops the scroll. I’ve handed clients deliverables that were technically sharp, technically exposed, and technically terrible because the white balance was just slightly too cold and it made everyone look like they were photographed inside a hospital. Not great. White balance is one of those adjustments that sounds fussy and technical until you realize it’s basically the difference between “warm afternoon in Mexico” and “fluorescent break room at a DMV.

How to Fix White Balance After the Fact
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How to Fix White Balance After the Fact

You shot an entire session under tungsten light with your camera set to daylight white balance. Everything looks like it was photographed inside a toaster. Don’t panic. Photoshop can fix this, and if you shot RAW, it’s trivially easy. The RAW Advantage If you shot in RAW format, white balance correction is lossless. RAW files store the raw sensor data without baking in any color temperature, so you can change it after the fact with zero quality loss.