Please add white balance adjustment to brush tool!!

Please add to the brush tool the ability to adjust white balance. I know you can currently paint a color over areas, but I would like to see a true white balance control in a brush. This would be quite useful for wedding or event photographers who shoot quickly in varied lighting often without flash.

More specifically, I would like to paint at 5500k or 3500k or whatever color temp I choose, measure, detect, or feel so inclined to. Like I said before, I realize the paint with tint works, but painting a white balance would be much easier. I never mentioned accurate. Accurate photographs in mixed lighting usually look bad (especially when you mix in fluorescent). My clients don't want "accurate" photos, they want what they remembered the event to look like. I don't feel the need to suggest the current features fail in any way to make a suggested improvement upon those features. The current (LR2) demosiac engine works well, but LR3 got an overhaul. Was demosiac in LR1 and LR2 a failure? I believe my suggestion is consistent with the intent of LR. While painting a warming or cooling color would certainly achieve the desired results, painting a preset color balance or manual temp/tint would be quicker. It makes for a better workflow.

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Local white balance adjustment tool

I really like the new local white balance adjustment tool. If I could change something will be to give a real color temperature to the tool instead of a number from -100 to 100. Let me give you an example of how I used it today.
I forgot to bring some gels for my flashes for a photo shoot. I was using the flashes to illuminate the foreground and I had fluorescent lightening on the background. It was the perfect opportunity to try the new tool. I knew exactly what the color temperature for both front and back were. I applied the background color temperature of 3200k to the picture and when to locally change the foreground. At this point I was guessing what it should be at. My monitor is color calibrated but I was under fluorescent lights with my laptop. Instead I could have added +2200k or dialed 5500k to the local adjustment tool.
Please let me know if you need more information.

I'm sorry I found another discussion about this topic already. Shame on me I didn't do a more thorough search on it before.
You can find that discussion here
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4138582#4138582

I am on Lightroom 5 and the exposure and white balance adjustment tools on the right side of the scr

I am on Lightroom 5 and the exposure and white balance adjustment tools on the right side of the screen have disappeared. How do I restore them?

Right click on one of the other panel headers e.g Tone Curve and a menu will pop up for you to select Basic.
How it gets de-selected is not apparent but several users have had this happen since the release of version 5. It has ahppened to me on at least two occasions.

White balance adjustment

When selecting neutral gray target with the white balance tool, are RGB readings on the loupe averaged values according to the scale of the loupe? Then, is the white balance adjustment made with this tool averaged for the pixels under the loupe?

You can test it for yourself.
Zoom in on a portion of the picture.
Hit W to get the white balance tool.
Click on a spot to obtain WB
Hit W again (unless you have autodismiss set other wise)
Use your scroll wheel on your mouse to change the loupe size and click again on the same pixel.
The WB changes a bit each time.

White Balance Adjustment question

I have about 800 images from a wedding, and am now ready to go thru them and adjust the white balance.
However, am I missing something?
I click on the white balance option, then the dropper, then click on the image to adjust the white balance ...
But, when I go to the next image, I have to THEN click on white balance AGAIN then the dropper, then the image etc etc etc???!!!
Can I just click on the dropper once, then scroll thru the images to adjust without having to ACTIVATE the white balance option again and again and again?
When there are 800 images, adding in those extra two steps is slowing me down big time.
Does this make sense?
Much appreciated!

So, I wanted to adjust each image individually but
without always having to click on White Balance
Adjustment each and every time. I really just want
to click thru and eye dropper the images.
Is this possible, or do I have to always go to the
adjustment pane and let the thing know I want white
balance adjustment after each image ...
I'm afraid the interface lets you down here. What's unfortunate is that there is no keyboard shortcut for the WB tool. There is for Edge Sharpen, for instance (ctrl-S) -- which means that for each image you can leave the HUD open and very quickly bring in the tool so its standard preset will be applied. It would be awfully nice to have that fast, mouseless capability with other tools.
(Query: since you can't get rid of default tools, which is why they're grayed out in the "+" menu on the HUD, why do they have keyboard shortcuts?? Pressing the shortcut doesn't toggle the tool off-and-on, or anything. Why do Color and Highlights & Shadows have ctrl-key shortcuts, and Crop and Straighten have non-ctrl-key shortcuts? Mysteries, mysteries.)
It might be most efficient to figure out what most images need, lift and stamp that setting, then go back and nudge or cancel the WB correction on the others. Depending on the numbers and proportion, of course.

Where is the white balance adjustment?

The iPhoto app provided an adjustment for white balance, if Photos in ios8 is a major update and replaces iPhoto, where do I find the white balance adjustment?

Do you just have to eyeball the correct adjustment rather than have it done autmatically?

White Balance Adjustment in Preview?

I'm pretty sure that, a while ago (pre-Leopard), it was possible to adjust a picture's white balance in Preview.app. Now that feature seems to have been turned off. Or am I seeing things? What's going on?

You can test it for yourself.
Zoom in on a portion of the picture.
Hit W to get the white balance tool.
Click on a spot to obtain WB
Hit W again (unless you have autodismiss set other wise)
Use your scroll wheel on your mouse to change the loupe size and click again on the same pixel.
The WB changes a bit each time.

Mass unset an adjustment (white balance), aperture 3

Hi all,
I upgraded to Aperture 3 and everything went smoothly, even the library upgrade.
Except for a small adjustment thing: After "reprocess masters" every image I had white balance set manually (most of my tens of thousands of images), looks now green. Not only slightly, everything is green. When I unclick the white balance adjustment, the picture returns to pretty much what I expected it to be (camera is Canon 5D, raw images).
Seems that Aperture 3 processes this generally better and pictures look fine without adjusting white balance.
Now the question is: how do I mass unset white balance setting for each and every image inside a project? With lift and stamp I can change white balance, but I didn't find a way to unset it completely. Manually I can uncheck the box before white balance and that does the trick, but I don't plan to click 42000 images manually.
Is there a way to batch change this? It would be easier to just unset everything, then go through the previews quickly to see if some of the photos need WB adjustment and do those few manually. I've now gone through five projects manually and have left the manual adjustment to only about ten photos with a slight modification towards purple.
/hv

Yes 5D can do that but I don't use the feature.
These are albums created ages ago with first Aperture 1 and then Aperture 2 for the newer ones. Actually, this pointed me to the right direction.
The greenness problem seems to trouble only old photos processed with Aperture 1.0 or 1.1 RAW settings. I've been processing the oldest albums first and didn't even think about this.
For 2.x photos, the reprosessing doesn't cause any greenness or other problems, and also, curiously, the "stamp default from jpg" trick works for these images just as suggested here, in case I wanted to remove the WB settings, which seems to be unnecessary.
But for 1.x raw processed photos, there is a desperate need to do something and the lift & stamp trick doesn't work.
Weird, but the problem seems to be in the fact that I never converted anything when I migrated to Aperture 2. There was no need to do anything so I just let the old ones be as they were. I tested moving to 2.0 raw with a couple of photos and I wasn't happy with the result as something in the colours and/or white balance changed and some minor adjustments would have been needed.
So thanks for your help and ideas once again. I'll leave the old ones for now as they are and hope Apple fixes this. They obviously haven't tested the migration at all with a library containing photos processed with the ancient 1.0 raw processing.
/hv

White Balance eyedropper not working?

Hi all,
Has anyone else tried doing a white balance adjustment in Aperture 2.0.1 with the eyedropper?
In 1.5.x, it worked great -- I just clicked the eyedropper, clicked on a known-neutral-grey area of my photo, and the white balance was adjusted very well.
In Aperture 2.0.1, I click on the eyedropper, then click on the same neutral-grey area, and for a second the photo adjusts beautifully -- then the white balance controls seem to randomly adjust back, and I get a photo that is no more color balanced than the original one.
Is anyone else seeing this, and/or does anyone have any ideas why Aperture won't stick with the initial adjustment I'm seeing?
Thanks in advance!
\marc

Still not working. I think the root cause of the problem is the mechanics of using the tool itself; I hope this screen shot shows up below ...
Here I have APPLIED EFFECTS open, and have selected Midtones (Greys) to be expanded so that the eyedropper and other details appear:
Now, just below where it has a box and "Impacted frame area in white" (which I know is a checkbox allowing the area effected to be seen), there is a little color box and an eyedropper.
What EXACTLY do I do to select (activate) the eyedropper and subsequently tell the program what I feel should be grey in the selected clip?
As mentioned before, I can click it and the cursor briefly changes to the same shape as the eyedropper. But as soon as I move the cursor a fraction, it changes back to an arrow (normal cursor) shape. Even then, going to the area I need to select in the image, and then clicking it, does exactly nothing to the appearance of the image shown -- even if the colors start way off. No correction at all. It is as if the tool does nothing. The color wheels below all this DO work however - it's just the eyedropper that doesn't do anything. This just cannot be Adobe's intention. I am convinced there must be some flaw in how I am selecting the tool itself. And the user guide - needless to say - is worthless in explaining the mechanics.
So very frustrating. This appears to be the only thing wrong with the program - nothing else seems amiss.
NOTE: To add insult to injury, this promised white/gray/black balance feature and the three-way-color corrector is the SOLE REASON I purchased the software. Funny.

Aperture: White Balance in Adjustments inspector no longer appears by default

Aperture 3.3.2
In the past week, the White Balance adjustment in the Adjustments inspector no longer appears by default in my program. It's always been there, above Exposure, Enhance, and Highlights and Shadows.
Now, White Balance is gone, and I have to click 'add adjustment... White Balance' for every single photo, which is hugely frustrating. I shoot in Canon RAW.
What happened to my default White Balance, and can someone help me put it back?
Thanks!

Click the cogwheel beside the White Balance adjustment and add this adjustment to the default set.
Regards
Léonie

How do I save a file after altering white balance?

Adobe has previously supplied incorrect advice. Adobe has now told me to use this forum to seek the correct advice. I am trying to alter white balance on some shots. The originals are in RAW (actually Sony's ARW). So I alter the shots in Photoshop and save as a DNG file. This requires me to save to a new location- no problem. However, when I open the altered shot (saved as DNG), it has always reverted to the old (uncorrected) white balance. I have tried various ways of saving but this keeps recurring. Please does anyone know how I need to save the altered shots to "hold" the altered white balance. NB I have no need to retain the unaltered versions of the shots. Thanks

The originals are in RAW (actually Sony's ARW). So I alter the shots in Photoshop and save as a DNG file.
As Jon points out there's no reason to use DNG if your camera is supported by your version of the Camera RAW plugin:
Camera Raw plug-in | Supported cameras
The point of Camera RAW is to let you save color adjustments in a non-destructive way—the adjustments are saved as instructions rather than permanently applied to the image pixels. It's the digital version of an analog negative.
So you don't make the adjustments in Photoshop, you make them in Bridge or Lightroom and the adjustment instructions are saved either to an xml sidecar along with the file or in the Camera RAW database depending on your preferences (Bridge>Camera RAW Preferences). In Bridge you can make the adjustments, click either Done or Open, and the adjustments will be saved for that .CR2 image.
Here I've set a custom white balance, adjusted the exposure and clicked Done to save the settings. When I open the image now or in the future the "negative" will be "developed" using the saved white balance and exposure.
You can make additional adjustments in Photoshop, but those adjustments would not be saved with the .CR2 "negative". To use the image in other applications it has to be saved as a separate file (as a "positive")—.psd, .tiff, .jpg, etc. You can not place raw images in other apps like InDesign or Illustrator.

How to apply white balance from jpeg to raw version

I always shoot in RAW + jpeg format. Many times the jpeg will work fine and I still have the RAW if I want to take the time to tweak things a bit more.
But sometimes the jpeg stumbles on a white balance that works well for a particular image. If I want to apply that same balance to the RAW version, I would like to be able to read what that color balance setting (in K degrees I assume) is so I can copy it.
Is there a way to find that info somewhere? The exif will only give you the name of the setting (Flash, Auto, Cloudy, whatever...) but not the numerical info needed to apply it in Aperture's White balance adjustment.
I use a Nikon D600.
Thanks very much for any info!
Bo

OK, progress!
I found out from Iliah Borg on the dpreview.com forum that the utility ExifTool (or its GUI version pyExifToolGUI) will provide the R, B, G1 and G2 values for the white balance setting. They are provided as multipliers or absolute vaules. Example:
WB RB Levels : 1.51953125 1.8515625 1 1
WB GRBG Levels : 256 389 474 256
Now does anyone know how you can enter these type of numberic values in Aperture? The standard White Balance brick does not have input fileds for these types.

Aperture 3.1 - White Balance Doesn't Update

Since upgrading to 3.1 I have noticed a somewhat annoying behavior with the White Balance data.
When I change from one selected image in a project to another image the White Balance data does not update.
If I deselect so no image is displayed and then select the new image, the data does update.
This only happens with images on which I have not made a manual White Balance adjustment. If I have made an adjustment then the data displays correctly on the adjusted image when it is selected. However, then selecting an unadjusted image causes a reversion to the 'incorrect' behavior.
Note that the image appearance does not change, so the actual image is not affected by this, only the display of the data.
Is anyone else experiencing this?
If so - any suggestions on how to fix?

Other users have reported similar issues see :[White Balance Glitch|http://discussions.apple.com/click.jspa?searchID=-1&messageID=12521251]

Aperture white balance default

I'm new to Aperture
The Aperture white balance default is 6826 (tint 13).
I set my camera wb to Flash.
How can I change the Aperture default WB to Flash?
In my meta data all my images have a wb=Flash. Should Aperture read the metadata to set the WB?
Tony

Hello Tony,
welcome to the Aperture Forum of the Apple Support Communities. Can you explain a little bit more, which default setting you are talking about?
At first I thought you were talking about the default setting for the White Balance adjustment in the adjustment panel of the Library inspector. But that one is set to a color temperature of 5000K (Horizon daylight), a suitable preset for landscape photography - at least, that setting is what I see in my Aperture version.
The number you quote "6826 K" is in the range of the color temperature of a LCD or CRT screen, suitable for the display of digital images on a screen. Where did you find that setting?
If you want to adjust any image to the setting the white balance your camera was set to, then you need to define a preset for the White Balance adjustment in the adjustment panel of the Library Inspector. Set this to the color temperature of your flashlight - it should be somewhere in the range of 5,500–6,000 K. Do you know the exact color temperature for the flash setting of your camera?
Regards
Léonie

White balance, colour temperature value.

Hi all,
I've spent some time recently looking at the temperature value in the white balance adjustment for a selection of my pictures in Aperture.
All of my pictures are taken outdoors in natural daylight. I've noticed the colour value of my RAW pictures in Aperture varies. Is this value recorded by the camera when it takes the picture or is it a value that Aperture works out depending on the colours it sees in the picture?
For example for one set of outdoor pictures I took in the space of about 30mins the temperature value varies from 4685K to over 5000K and yet as I remember the apparent ambient temperature and light didn't change.
I usually have the white balance on my camera set to auto but am I correct in thinking that since I shoot in RAW mode the white balance setting will have no affect on the RAW file produced and will only affect the accompanying jpeg? Or is the current white balance setting recorded to the RAW file but without adjusting the picture data and this is the value we see as the temperature in Aperture? Hence if I've got the camera set to auto WB and one moment the camera thinks it's sunny when I take a picture and the next time it thinks it's cloudy then the raw files are recorded with a different colour temperature?
Regards,
Dave.

You have almost got it correct.
Jpeg will have the WB as per the camera setting.
The raw file does not have a WB setting. Aperture makes a rough assessment in much the same way your camera does.
Nothing gets recorded to the raw file only the information from sensor.
In camera, to produce the jpeg, the processor looks at blocks of data & applies an average value to the block. Lets say there is a block of 8 pixels with 8 different values, the jpeg file format gives it 1. So were you had 8 shades in the raw file you now have one in the jpeg.
Unless you have a specific need to import both, Aperture can make all the jpegs you want, any size and better quality and easier than you can in camera.

Please add white balance adjustment to brush tool!!

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