Properly White Balancing Your Photos

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By Portege on Saturday, March 03, 2012 - 02:42 pm:  Edit

This is one of the lessons I have learned along the way and I thought I might share.

The simplest way of white balancing your photos is through software. Photoshop is the popular choice, but its expensive and probably more software then we need. Our purpose here is to white balance some amateur shots to make them look better on a website like Clubhombre without breaking the bank. So there is another program out there called PhotoScape which you can white balance your photos, crop, etc.

http://www.photoscape.org/ps/main/index.php

In the photo, you need something white. Bedsheets, towels, shirts, etc. may not be white. They might be off-white. Therefore, its best to throw a white balance card somewhere in the photo which you can crop out later on.

Here is a cheap one:

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/300868-REG/Porta_Brace_WBC_White_Balance_Card.html

So after taking the photos, you use the editor within photoscape to white balance the photos by clicking on the white balance card.

Now if you do not white balance the photos, the colors in the photos may not be accurate. Were the women really that yellowish or reddish? The auto white balance on the camera is usually not all that accurate.

So there are many ways and techniques to white balance photos, but for our purposes, this technique is probably the cheapest and quickest to do.


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