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Correcting the white balance
A. Moving the Temperature slider to the right corrects a photo taken with a higher color temperature of light B. Moving the Temperature slider
to the left corrects a photo taken with a lower color temperature of light C. Photo after color temperature adjustment
Sets the white balance to compensate for a green or magenta tint. Decrease Tint to add green to the image;
Tint
increase Tint to add magenta.
To adjust the white balance quickly, select the White Balance tool
that should be a neutral gray or white. The Temperature and Tint properties adjust to make the selected color exactly
neutral (if possible). If you're clicking whites, choose a highlight area that contains significant white detail rather than a
specular highlight. You can double-click the White Balance button to reset White Balance to As Shot.
Adjust tone in Camera Raw
You adjust the image tonal scale using the tone controls in the Basic tab.
When you click Auto at the top of the tone controls section of the Basic tab, Camera Raw analyzes the camera raw
image and makes automatic adjustments to the tone controls (Exposure, Recovery, Fill Light, Blacks, Brightness, and
Contrast).
When you adjust tone automatically, Camera Raw ignores any adjustments previously made in other tabs (such as
fine-tuning of tone in the Curves tab). For this reason, you should usually apply automatic tone adjustments first—
if at all—to get an initial approximation of the best settings for your image. If you are very careful during shooting
and have deliberately shot with different exposures, you probably don't want to undo that work by applying
automatic tone adjustments. On the other hand, you can always try clicking Auto and then undo the adjustments if
you don't like them.
Previews in 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 prefer-
ences.
, and then click an area in the preview image
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