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January 14, 2024
Question

Sync White Balance (Temperature & Tint) issue

  • January 14, 2024
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I'm having problems synchronizing the white balance edits between two photos of a timelapse that I photographed. In the photo that I make the edits, I change the temperature and tint value. However, when I synchronize with another photo, these two values are different. In the "synchronize settings" window, I always leave all the boxes checked. I don't know if this is a bug or if I'm doing it wrong.

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D Fosse
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 16, 2024

Is the white balance in the first shot "As Shot" or "Custom"?

 

As Shot will just synchronize to As Shot, even if the original temp/tint numbers are different.

 

Custom will synchronize the actual numerical values.

GoldingD
Legend
January 16, 2024
when I synchronize with another photo, these two values are different. In the "synchronize settings" window, I always leave all the boxes checked

So from that statement I take it you are referring to:

 

May I propose a  approach. For your reference photo, select that WB you want, then in the menu bar, in Settings, select Copy Settings

 

and select White Balance. Click on Copy

 

Go and select those other images, then back in the menu bar, in Settings, select Paste Settingsexcept

 

johnrellis
Legend
January 15, 2024

As a first troubleshooting step, verify that the source and destination photos are either both raw or both non-raw (e.g. JPEGs).  Don't assume they're the same type -- type "i" in Develop a couple times to see the file name overlaid in the upper-left corner.

 

Copying Temp and Tint from a raw to a non-raw or vice versa won't yield the same values.

Participant
January 15, 2024

Thanks for the answer, but as I said in my post: the two images are part of a night photography timelapse of more than 200 photos, all photographed in RAW. I tried once again to sync the White Balance & Tint edits, but they are still different from one photo to the next.

johnrellis
Legend
January 16, 2024

It's often the case that people think they're working with raw when in fact, something has happened behind the scenes.  But if you're sure you're working with raw, then as a next troubleshooting step:

 

Select sample source and destination raw photos that aren't syncing correctly. Upload them to Dropbox, Google Drive, or similar, and post the sharing link here. We can then see if they sync temp and tint correctly in other LR configurations.