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Correcting white balance of JPEG images

Correcting white balance of JPEG images

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Correcting white balance of JPEG images

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- [Instructor] Just to really drive home how amazing white balance correction in a raw file is, I'm going to try and correct the white balance in this JPEG file. I took one of the raw files that I had and saved it out as a JPEG with no correction on it. So you can see that we've got the same bad white balance that we had before. But you can see down here, this is a JPEG file, not a raw. In Lightroom, I still have my same white balance controls, but they feel very different. First of all, notice that temperature is no longer degrees kelvin. It's just units. And it comes in set at zero. It still goes from blue to yellow, and tint still goes from green to magenta, but the temperature slider doesn't have near the latitude, and it's just not working the same way that it did before. Also, I can... It's actually holding the gradients and things together pretty well, but I can push things to a point where I start to see some artifacts. But it's the dropper that was the really critical tool…

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