Is there a one-click white balance available?

I'd like to click on something in post to set the white balance, similar to how I can do it in Aperture. I see it in Final Cut Pro, but I don't know about FCE4.
Anything like that?

Final Cut PRO?!? Taylor, you've got better tools in there. I think it's the three up color corrector. I don't have Pro, so I'm not sure what it's called.
I go to Filters/Video Filters/Color Corrector and click the Visual button to get the color wheels and sliders at the bottom. To the bottom left of the Balance wheel is a tiny (I DO mean tiny) arrow. Click that and then move your cursor over the canvas. The cursor becomes an eyedropper. Click on something white or neutral grey to snap your overall color into shape. Tweak accordingly, afterwards. Warm it up or cool it down, based on your needs. Holding the command button and shift button while dragging the circle in the center of the balance wheel affects how fast the color changes.
HTH!

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Why? Ultimately so I can save my resulting good photos... thousands... as copies that I can use with other apps... or NO apps.
But why?   OK, I am new and uncomfortable with the file system in lightroom. The way I understand it is you create a catalog, basically thumbnails of your images on your drive. Then any edits you do become part of a metafile, which is a large database of all your edits for all your photos in one file. When you pull up an image from a "catalog" (assuming you have not moved it) LR pulls up the image and combines it with the edits you made from the "metafile" to show you your edited photo.
OK, but why?   Because I use other software and AFTER my year is up, I may not renew.
The file system seems geared to make you dependent on Adobe and frankly, if that is so, it bothers me greatly. (Wait till SharePoint catches up to us.)
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2) I would like to try and learn it Adobe's way, and not have multiple copies all over the place.
3) but I am going to have to give up my hierarchy and easy way to find and save pics to do it Adobe's way (which I still do not completely understand.)
4) There are some things I do very easily with Photoshop and Cannot use Adobe until I figure them out... if at all possible.
SO before I commit to a years purchase.   Can someone answer my rather direct question as stated in the first two lines.
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Because I use other software and AFTER my year is up, I may not renew.
In which case, all parts of Lightroom except develop and map are still available to you, indefinitely, which allows you to export your edited photos from Lightroom after you stop paying the subscription.
Is there a one-click way to save every edited photo? No, but you can do it with multiple clicks (Select All Photos, File->Export, set the desired options, click on Export), and even given all of your misgivings about Lightroom (which many people share and many people don't share), that seems to me like overkill. Worst case scenario: you stop paying your subscription and then you can still perform this export at that time.

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Been searching on this, found a few things, but nothing helpful.
In the past few weeks, it appears that Aperture is no longer interpreting my cameras white balance settings properly. The colors themselves are fine, however, the adjustment applet always shows 5000k with 0 tint. I'm not quite sure when this started, but it's quite frustrating. This appears to be happening on everything newly imported. (I can only verify JPG at the moment, as I'm seeing this on a Canon S95 and 60D, which both don't have RAW support yet in Aperture).
Anyone ever see this happen, or no of a solution? I'm using Aperture 3, latest updates etc. on OS X 10.6.4. My older files all appear fine, it's just these recents, from these two cameras. Unfortunately, I've sold my other gear, and don't have an older cam around to test. Either way, other products, Adobe, seem to be reading things properly.
Thanks for any input.

So all these files are JPEGs?
Note that white balance works very differently with JPEGs and RAW files. There really is no "white balance" information in a JPEG, and you can't adjust them the same way. That's one of the big advantages of RAW files. I suspect once Aperture supports the RAW files for those cameras, then you'll get proper white balance. Until then, with JPEGs you're kinda SOL. It's a bunch more work. But that's the nature of the medium.

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Working Without White Balance

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My goal is to work in Photoshop and Camera Raw without using White Balance.
As I understand, the camera stores within the raw NEF file what was seen by the camera chip without correction. For example, if the camera chip sees say 10,000 red photons, this is stored as say 200. If the camera chip sees 20,000 red photons, this is stored as 400. Hence, it is linear. Of course, the actual storage is as a Bayer array.
http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/camera-sensors.htm
In theory, from the raw NEF file, one should be able to reconstruct the image that fell upon the camera chip.
On the camera itself, there are many camera White Balance settings. However, it lacks a "None" i.e. "As Is" setting meaning do not assume anything about the light source and make no correctons. Just record the photon levels and give me back the same image that was focused on the camera chip.
As an experiment, I shot a daylight scene using 2,500K (obviously, an extreme value) for the white balance. When I look at the raw file in Camera Raw, the "As Shot" shows a heavy blue tint. Hence, Camera Raw was using the 2,500K white balance selecting of the Nikon for the "As Shot" setting in Camera Raw. Looking at the Camera Raw basic panel White Balance drop down items, there is no "None". Hence, Camera Raw always assumes there is a White Balance and makes corrections.
Why would I want to do this? For example, I have multiple varied color light sources. I want to see exactly the image my eye sees. I do not want the camera making corrections since there is not a single light source for it to make assumptions about how to correct.
Is there a way in Photoshop or Camera Raw to show me the image without any white balance correction. Thanks in advance.

Petrula wrote:
Camera: Nikon D90
Adobe CS5 Design Suite
My goal is to work in Photoshop and Camera Raw without using White Balance.
As I understand, the camera stores within the raw NEF file what was seen by the camera chip without correction. For example, if the camera chip sees say 10,000 red photons, this is stored as say 200. If the camera chip sees 20,000 red photons, this is stored as 400. Hence, it is linear. Of course, the actual storage is as a Bayer array. In theory, from the raw NEF file, one should be able to reconstruct the image that fell upon the camera chip.
On the camera itself, there are many camera White Balance settings. However, it lacks a "None" i.e. "As Is" setting meaning do not assume anything about the light source and make no correctons. Just record the photon levels and give me back the same image that was focused on the camera chip.
The sensor is linear, but the sensitivities of the red, green and blue channels differ, so one must take these differing sensitivities into account when rendering the image from the raw data. As demonstrated by others, channel multipliers of unity (UniWB) do not yield the intended result. To obtain your intended result, empirically determined multipliers would be necessary. When used for white balance, these multipliers are chosen to that a white target will have equal RGB values in the rendered image. For your purpose, multipliers would need to be chosen so that the white target would assume the color of the incident light. In other words, if the white target were illuminated with reddish light, the image would be reddish and not white.
Why would I want to do this? For example, I have multiple varied color light sources. I want to see exactly the image my eye sees. I do not want the camera making corrections since there is not a single light source for it to make assumptions about how to correct.
Is there a way in Photoshop or Camera Raw to show me the image without any white balance correction. Thanks in advance.
On the camera itself, there are many camera White Balance settings. However, it lacks a "None" i.e. "As Is" setting meaning do not assume anything about the light source and make no correctons. Just record the photon levels and give me back the same image that was focused on the camera chip.
As an experiment, I shot a daylight scene using 2,500K (obviously, an extreme value) for the white balance. When I look at the raw file in Camera Raw, the "As Shot" shows a heavy blue tint. Hence, Camera Raw was using the 2,500K white balance selecting of the Nikon for the "As Shot" setting in Camera Raw. Looking at the Camera Raw basic panel White Balance drop down items, there is no "None". Hence, Camera Raw always assumes there is a White Balance and makes corrections.
Why would I want to do this? For example, I have multiple varied color light sources. I want to see exactly the image my eye sees. I do not want the camera making corrections since there is not a single light source for it to make assumptions about how to correct.
Is there a way in Photoshop or Camera Raw to show me the image without any white balance correction. Thanks in advance.
I infer that you want the captured image to reflect the spectra of the actual scene luminances (or more likely a metameric tristimulus match) rather than how you perceive them. The human visual apparatus exhibits chromatic adaption, whereas the sensor does not. The CIE xyz model assumes complete chromatic adaption and the color models based on CIE models need a white point to operate, so you are attempting to use ACR in a manner other than for which it was intended. There is an interesting exercise on the Stanford web site that shows how one can use a digital camera (the Nikon D70) in conjunction with a spectrophotometer to obtain spectrophotometric data from the camera. To recreate the actual spectra, two additional colored filters are required, but if one merely needs a metameric tristimulus match, perhaps only the three native CFA filters of the camera would be needed.
http://scien.stanford.edu/pages/labsite/2006/psych221/projects/06/clintonk/index.htm
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During the holidays I was taking photos at a family gathering, about 125 or so, under tungsten light. I forgot about setting the white balance on the camera to tungsten until half-way through the evening. Is there a way to easily change the colour cast for the initial photos? I'm hoping that there is a "retro" white balance setting since all these images will need the same colour shift. I am using an old old version of photoshop that doesn't have a batch function, though I am waiting for the CS3 - but that could take awhile since its coming through the school.
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I'm a beginner in Aperture and have the following question for which I haven't found an answer yet.
Let me explain what I did and where the problem rose:
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