White Balance - Plug in for adjusting

I forgot to set the white balance on my camera before recording. I remember coming across an AE effect plug-in that will set/adjust the white balance but I cant remember which one it is.
thank You
CS4

There's a list of training resources at http://www.synthetic-ap.com/support/kb/420301.html
To do white balance it's really simple: Apply Color Finesse to a layer. In the effect controls window, click the "Auto Color" button. You're done.
Obviously there's a lot more to Color Finesse, but despite its depth, it's pretty simple for doing simple things.
(Note that Auto Color is new to Color Finesse 3 and CS5.)
Bob Currier
Synthetic Aperture

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Is there a good white balance plug-in for Premiere Elements?

Now that I've discovered and installed the Mercalli V2 Stabilizer plug-in (wow, is it great!), I think that the only thing lacking in Premiere Elements 10 is a plug-in to correct white balance.
What I'm talking about is a simple warmer / cooler temperature adustment plug-in.

A true white balance correction plug-in is no comparison to using the three-level Color Corrector or Color Enhancer.
If anyone has done extensive work on still images in Adobe Photoshop as I have, there's absolutely no comparison.
Yes, one can noodle around with the existing tools and kind of get there, but it requires a strong working knowledge of color balance variables.
A white balance plug-in has a simple warmer / cooler slider and can adjust white balance in a couple of seconds without skewing basic color components.

White Balance pipette request for adjustment brushes

Just a suggestion in the hope that this gets introduced..
could we have the white balance sample pipette on the adjustment brush so that it is even easier to apply localised colour correction?
Cheers
Scot

I imagine sample white balance from an image means the same for localised adjustment brushes as it does when using the white balance pipette in the Basic panel.
click the white balance pipette or shortcut key W... move the pipette over an area you expect to be colour neutral, click and voila.. (Temp & Tint sliders adjusted to a neutral balance)
at least that is what I would hope to happen

White Balance Plug In

Can someone advise me on a plug in for a quick method of setting white balance when you did not get footage with correct white balance? Also can you set keyframes for changing the white balance in a multi-cam clip?
This is the footage I am looking to fix - look at the change when someone turns lighting on at : 3:41
Is there anyway to recue the white balance at 1:17.
https://vimeo.com/80166468
Are there any good training videos for explaining all of this?
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http://fxfactory.com/blog/effects-2/final-cut-pro-x-white-balancer-plugin/

Expand white balance beyond 2000K for RAW files

I'm finding, with the mixture of lighting situations I find at weddings (evening venues especially) that 2000K sometimes is not enough for me to get a correct white balance. I'm having to apply a filter on top to get a true white balance.
Is there any reason why 2000K is the current limit? If not, could you expand it past 2000K?
Thank-you!

Try http://robertreiser.photography/articles/proper-infrared-white-balance-in-lightroom/

White Balance color temperature for custom temperature shots

Hello,
I would like to understand why LR and Photoshop too are always show wrong color temperature "As Shot"?
Let say I shoot with 6000K, set manually (Canon 40D, RAW)
Canon itself says it's 6000K in the slide info, fine.
Both Adobe apps says it's 5750K!
What's going on there?
Second question - I know the light was EXACTLY 6000K, but the slide has some green in it. Picking white balance in LR gives me 5900K (which is close to the truth) and +31 Tint, which makes slide neutral.
Of course I can correct Tint manually before the shot by WB Shift in Camera, so the question is: what is the best way - to find more or less appropriate WB shift in the camera, or use WB correction in LR after all?
Thanks
UPD. My suggestion is - Adobe doesn't read custom temperature from RAW file, it's just guessing! Is that right?

The white balance value you see in Lightroom is profile specific. It reads your custom white balance and translates it so that neutrals stay neutral, which is exactly what you want. If it wouldn't do this, your neutrals would shift in color.
The best way to get a correct white balance is to shoot a white balance (grey) card or use one of those filters on your camera to measure it. You can either set it in camera from the grey card or do it with the dropper in Lightroom and sync over the series. The effect will be the same.
P.S. unless you shoot a white balance card, you do not know that the color temp of your light is exactly 6000K. That is quite impossible to know. It might be approximately that under certain standardized conditions but you cannot be sure, no matter what you're told by the manufacturer.

White Balance Tint and Temp Adjustment in 2.0

Not to thrilled with this adjustment so far. The 1.5 version seemed to be more granular, permitting finer adjustment. The adjustment in 2.0 seems to be all or nothing.
Otherwise I'm very happy with 2.0.
Anyone else finding the tint & temp adjustment awkward?
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The Aperture User Manual (PDF) on p. 332 describes the use of sliders and "value sliders". Value sliders can be adjusted using small or large increments. Click once on the value field, then mouse down and drag to use a value slider. If you hold down the Option key while dragging, the values will change in small increments. If you hold down the Shift key while dragging, the values will change in large increments.
I have no idea why you you are seeing such large changes when you use the regular sliders, but pressing the Option key while using the Temp or Tint value sliders may work around the problem. Good luck, and please let us know if this works.

Basic white balance questions

1.) What do you do if you are working on an image that has absolutely no white in it or neutral colors? Maybe the white detail is all washed out, maybe the image is made up of blues, reds and yellows. How do you use the white balance tool in this case?
2.) If you have the option of choosing both a white color or grey color to use the white balance tool on, is there a general rule of thumb for using one over the other? Or do you just try both to see which looks better? Does clicking on white result in a better white balanced image generallly than when clicking on grey?
Thanks.

Jeff Schewe wrote:
Most of the time I don't bother with the White Balance tool and simply adjust the image to taste. But if you do need an "accurate" WB, then it's better to use a non-specular non-blownout white. Grey is too far down the tone scale and can be a bit less accurate.
A non-specular non-blownout white would be best. Unfortunately, such a target is not readily available. The "white" patch of the Colorchecker has a reflectance of about 90% (optical density = 0.05) and is not spectrally neutral, so it is recommended to use the second brightest patch for white balancing with the color checker. It is apparently difficult to make a spectrally neutral white paint. The second brightest patch has an OD of 0.23 (~60% reflectance) and is reasonable spectrally neutral. The darker neutral patches will result in a higher signal:noise in the image, but can work relatively well if your sensor has good noise characteristics, and a darker gray neutral area of an image can be used if a lighter neutral area is not available.
Babel Color used to provide a spectrally neutral white target, but it is no longer being offered. Their web-site FAQ gives useful information on the section on the of a white balancing target. Besides not being spectrally neutral in many cases, the Kodak 18% target is too dark, but can give acceptable results as many photographers have found. The WhiBal target has a reflectance of 50% (OD = 0.32, L* = 75) and is a reasonable choice for white balancing.
http://www.babelcolor.com/main_level/faq.htm#FAQ-white_balance_target

LR4 White Balance Numbers Differ w/ Nikon D4 and D3s

I've noticed that LR interprets the white balance settings differently for my raw .nef files coming from my Nikon D3s and D4 bodies; even when a specific kelvin temp is chosen in camera.
Here's a few examples:
D4 flash WB, LR shows as 6150, +2
D3s flash WB, LR shows as 6400, +9
D4 WB set to 5k, LR reads as 4750, +1
D3s WB set to 5k, LR reads as 4900, +10
Any thoughts on why this is happening, and what (if anything) I should do to get xxxx kelvin temp in camera to import as xxxx kelvin temp in LR?

Eric Chan, senior designer of LR/ACR wrote:
Quote:
The white balance readout in terms of temperature & tint depends on the camera profile (more specifically, the translation between so-called "camera neutral" values and temperature/tint values). Different raw converters use different profiles. This results in different readouts, even if image appearance is the same.
The process of reporting white balance values is non-standardized.
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/fo...2#msg411522%29
Raw converters, whether in the camera or in a computer, do not deal with color temperatures, they deal with multipliers applied to the red and blue channels. But because representing a WB as a pair of multiplier values would be mystifying for most users, the GUI translates those numbers into the corresponding color temperature that the WB will neutralize, a concept more familiar to most photograhers. When "As Shot" is set in the converter it reads from the image file metadata the mutipliers listed there and applies them. However, the WB multipliers are applied after the camera profile and since different converters use different profiles with differing renderings of the basic color values, the post-WB image values are different, even though the same multipliers are used, and the corresponding Kelvin temperature is different.
Now, what happens when you dial a temperature into your camera? The firmware calculates what multipliers will be needed in combination with the Nikon profile in order to neutralize light of that color. Then it records the multipliers in the metadata and, if outputting a jpg, applies them. But if you output a Raw, LR reads the multipliers and does the reverse calculation, "What temperature will be neutralized if these multipliers are used with an Adobe profile?" and does not come back to the same temperature that you set in the camera.
Different cameras = different profiles = different temperatures.

How to view white balance data in iphoto '09

I would like to be able to see the white balance setting metadata for photos in iPhoto '09, but I'm not finding any way to do that.
The "Show Extended Photo Info" doesn't include white balance.
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Tracy

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What have you done since then to bet to the "starting point"?
What is the "starting point"?
Do you have a backup up from before you did what ever you did to lose the events?
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White balance presets in 1.1?

What happened to the white balance presets for JPEGs in 1.1? All I have now is auto, custom, and as shot.
In 1.0 I had all the presets for JPEG as I have for RAW. In 1.0 they were in the develop module.

on 6/27/07 12:31 PM, William Wood at [email protected] wrote:
> Joseph is correct. I have the fully paid for version of LR 1.0 and the WB
> presets were in the Quick Develop section of the Library and they did work
> fine on JPGS. Ver 1.1 eliminated them and, even worse, the WB on many of my
> JPG images is now totally wacko and I have to fix them in Develop. Those same
> images were fine in Ver 1.0 and every other image viewer I have used.
Nothing in the upgrade process should have whacked the white balance on the JPEGs though it is possible that since absolute white balance (what we do with raws) can't actually be sensibly applied to JPEGs that we're now looking to an incremental value. When you have one of these, what values do you see in Develop for temperature, tint, and white balance?
As for the availability of the settings in Quick Develop, they were just as wrong there as they were in Develop. The challenge for QD is that it might actually be working on a mixture of raws and non-raws.
Mark

White Balance and other Mayhem

This past weekend I was shooting as usual when unexpectedly for several minutes, it was “open season”, anything goes color wise so the footage from that segment is filled with totally inappropriate tints, hues and false coloration like all of the sudden the white balance went haywire amongst other factors.
Then, thrown in for good measure the lighting keep shifting from light to dark to light.
Accordingly, my questions are these:
My goal is to somehow salvage these minutes if it isn’t too much work assuming it can be made to look right. The problem is all of my color correcting experience to date has been solely with digital photography. I have none at all with Premiere and CS3 which appears to eb very involved and complex comparatively speaking. Is there a solution that a newbie to color correction could pursue to some level of success at least as a viable starting point that anyone care to share and explain in some detail?
Does CS 3 have any autofixes or functions exclusively recommended for white balance issues?
For example digital photo editing programs have sliders named just that or maybe they’ll be split between temperature and another associated parameter.
Thanks as any information, suggestions or advice acquired will be used to learn and grow.

Thanks for all of your valuable suggestions.
The problem was compounded when there were drastic shifts in the levels of ambient light also occuring at the same time.
Happy Holidays to everyone.
Bruce

JPEG and White Balance

When Aperture imports JPEGs it offers the same white balance options as it does for RAW files.
My understandiing from using Lightroom which does not use temperature in it's white balance Develop module for JPEGs, is that there is no data associated with a JPEG that tells the program where to start with white balance.
I'm curious as to what assumptions Aperture makes with regard to white balance when importing JPEGs and what goes on in the background as you change the temperature with a JPEG.
Thank you.

Aperture assigns a temperature of 5000k to all jpg and tif files.
I don't know what goes on in the background but the temperature changes are useful, if not correct.
Cheers,
Terry

White Balance below 2000K?

Is it possible to set a white balance in Lightroom for RAW pictures that is below 2000K and -150?
If it is, how does it work?

Try http://robertreiser.photography/articles/proper-infrared-white-balance-in-lightroom/

Kuler iPhone app - White Balance

No way to set white-balance?
Kuler for iPhone is really a very nicely done app, but there is a fairly major issue for an app that is only about colour.
No white-balance setting. The iPhone's colours are often too blue. (Probably because Apple thinks it gives more 'punch' and they may be right, but it is not an accurate colour-wise).
As I use Kuler on the iPhone, I see that the colours on the iPhone screen are wildly too blue compared to what is in front of my eyes.
Can you please include the possibility to set Kuler's white-point (grey balance) in the next version?
(This seems like a big omission)

Grantfs- thanks for the suggestion. I've created an "idea" here.
Are you imaggining this would be a setting you would set one time (and tweak occasionally) or something you might want to play with each time you take a pic?

White Balance - Plug in for adjusting

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