Color Balance - Nikon D300 Complete Manual

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The modified version of your image will appear with a special

icon (paintbrush):

Color Balance

One of the most interesting of the RETOUCH menu options,

Color balance allows you to use the CIE two-dimensional

color space to change the colors in your image. The range of

change is very high here and fully under your control. If you

know what you're doing with two-dimensional color

representations, you can change colors in your image to

match just about any style you'd like.

On some earlier Nikon DSLRs, this function lived in the

Filter effects menu.

To use Color balance, you must first take a picture. That

picture needs to be color (i.e. you can't apply this to black

and white images shot with the D300), and can be NEF or

1. Press the MENU button to show the menu system.

2. Use the Direction pad to navigate to the RETOUCH

menu (paintbrush icon tab) and press the > key on the

Direction pad to enter the menu.

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