Acr white balance tool

Either way, it's very frustrating. I left Bridge open the last time it happened after hitting cancel in ACR , and when I tried opening the files again in ACR 10 minutes later it was working normally again. See Adjust color rendering for your camera in Camera Raw. The White Balance drop-down menu in the Basic panel has three main controls for correcting a color cast:.

White Balance. Camera Raw applies the white balance setting and changes the Temperature and Tint properties in the Basic tab accordingly. Use these controls to fine-tune the color balance. Sets the white balance to a custom color temperature.

Decrease Temperature to correct a photo taken with a lower color temperature of light; the Camera Raw plug-in makes the image colors bluer to compensate for the lower color temperature yellowish of the ambient light.

Conversely, increase Temperature to correct a photo taken with a higher color temperature of light; the image colors become warmer yellowish to compensate for the higher color temperature bluish of the ambient light. For example, Camera Raw provides a true-temperature adjustment slider for raw files from 2, Kelvin to 50, Kelvin.

Because the original value was already used to alter the pixel data in the file, Camera Raw does not provide the true Kelvin temperature scale. In these instances, an approximate scale of to is used in place of the temperature scale. Sets the white balance to compensate for a green or magenta tint.

Decrease Tint to add green to the image; increase Tint to add magenta. To adjust the white balance quickly, select the White Balance tool and then click an area in the image that you want to be a neutral gray. The Temperature and Tint properties adjust to make the selected color exactly neutral if possible. When you click Auto in the top of the Edit panel, Camera Raw analyzes the image and makes automatic adjustments to the tone controls.

You can also apply automatic settings separately for individual tone controls. To apply an automatic adjustment to an individual slider in the Basic panel, such as Exposure or Contrast, press Shift and double-click the slider. To return an individual tone control to its original value, double-click the slider.

When you adjust tone automatically, Camera Raw ignores any adjustments previously made in other tabs such as fine-tuning of tone in the Tone Curves tab.

For this reason, apply automatic tone adjustments first—if at all—to get an initial approximation of the best settings for your image. Previews in Adobe Bridge use the default image settings. If you want the default image settings to include automatic tone adjustments, select Apply Auto Tone Adjustments in the Default Image settings section of the Camera Raw preferences.

If you are comparing images based on their previews in Adobe Bridge, leave the Apply Auto Tone Adjustments preference deselected, which is the default. As you make adjustments, keep an eye on the end points of the histogram, or use the shadow and highlight clipping previews. While moving the tone controls sliders, hold down Alt Windows or Option Mac OS to preview where highlights or shadows are clipped.

Move the slider until clipping begins, and then reverse the adjustment slightly. For more information, see Preview highlight and shadow clipping.

PV referred to in the brackets below is Process Version. For details, see Process Versions. Exposure All. Adjusts the overall image brightness. Adjust the slider until the photo looks good and the image is the desired brightness. Contrast All. Increases or decreases image contrast, mainly affecting midtones. When you increase contrast, the middle-to-dark image areas become darker, and the middle-to-light image areas become lighter. The image tones are inversely affected as you decrease contrast.

Highlights PV Adjusts bright image areas. Drag to the right to brighten highlights while minimizing clipping. Shadows PV Adjusts dark image areas. Drag to the left to darken shadows while minimizing clipping.

Drag to the right to brighten shadows and recover shadow details. Even better than the functionality you've referenced here. You need to be a member in order to leave a comment. Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy! Already have an account? Sign in here. Search Damien's resources ; or. Search In. The inherent advantage of ACR is that you can select one point and be done with WB, but it seems that if you want accurate WB, you'll need to go into PS and work with adjustment layers.

What about color casts? Can that be handled in ACR? There is a color sampling tool, but there isn't any curves adjustment menu for color, only the Tone Curve. Speaking of which, is it logical to liken the Tone Curve menu to a curves adjustment layer as the Basic menu is to a levels adjustment layer in that the former gives more control over the latter? What exactly is the difference between the two tabs in ACR?

In summation, how many of my needs can be addressed in ACR when post-processing versus working straight in Photoshop and what is the proper, if not, scientific method?

I know this topic sounds like a jumble of thoughts, but if anyone could directly address my questions, I'd be very grateful. I'd like to really play with some of my shots most of which are hammy or lacking in composition , but up until now, I've merely been doing levels adjustments R, G, B separately after "guesstimating" the white balance in ACR, and making a few slider adjustments in the Basic menu.

Thanks a ton. You guys sound like experts and seem to know how to make Photoshop work for you, and not obfuscate you. White Balance should always be set first, except in cases when exposure is adjusted by more than one-half stop. In those cases, adjust exposure first then set White Balance. Gear List. Fedka, could you further explain your white balance procedure? Do you always perform it in Photoshop? Do you ever use ACR to do it?