P: Add White Balance Color Picker to the Local Adjustment Tools

[UlysseLb]

You should add the ability to selects WB with a color picker in the masks. I often use color range masks to calibrate my images, but I have to select my WB using the slider, which is often less efficient. Your competitor does it well,  I'm sure you can do it to.

[warm_Cascade1549]

Feature request for Lightroom Adjustment Brushes (based on 1st public LR4 Beta)

Could we please have a white balance pipette in addition to the Temp & Tint sliders for localised adjustment brushes. This would bring it into line with the Basics panel and allow for much simpler & quicker localised white balance corrections.

Thank you

Scot

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

cracking idea, whether it makes it for LR 4 or not, but please if possible, LR4.0

[hsbn]

This would be a great help instead of "guessing" the right WB.

[Mark Stanczak]

Great idea!

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Also the Temp slider should indicate the actual color temp not a scale of -100 to100

[Flawless_Star15D5]

This has been discussed in the Adobe Lightroom forum see...

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/947817

...and Eric Chan (he of Adobe) explains the whys and wherefores of the scale chosen for this feature.

Anthony.

PS. Love the pipette idea by the way.

[warm_Cascade1549]

Thank you, if you haven't.. could you 'like' the idea above

[Flawless_Star15D5]

Done. Thanks for the reminder...

[warm_Cascade1549]

Thanks!

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Good idea! And there is should be no difference between the white balance settings in Develop panel and the white balance settings for Local brush adjustments (Temp/Tint scale, values and units)

[Samoreen]

Strange. I had the feeling that they were releasing bugs at an accelerated rate :-)) .

[Just Shoot Me]

Yes the People that work on Lightroom at Adobe only work for 2 hours every other Friday. And for most of those 2 hours they talk about what they did for the last 2 weeks and what they are going to do in the next 2 weeks.

[bob frost]

Well, 5 releases for Photoshop but only 3 releases for LR this year.

[Guest]

8 years? I would still need that feature.

[SugarbushTreeskier]

1-When painting with a mask brush. Be able to use a white balance picker to pick a white balance from one area to use in another area.

2- Like in Bridge version 12, have access to the same metadata library and be able to make and keep metadata templates

3- When you work with the mask brush and you have switched off auto select. It still seems to do it partially residually.

4- have the constrain crop on by default.

5- Add Nikon's Z 24-70 profile to list

6- Like in Bridge 12 have the ability to change only part of file name globally.

Gregg

[Ian Lyons]

I suggest you submit each of the features you've requested above as individual Feature Requests.

BTW, 2 already exists in LrC - see Library module > Metadata > Edit Metatdata Presets...

[TheDigitalDog]

You're asking for selective WB (not global)? Seems reasonable, I'll upvote for that. 

[ystudio219219362ch5]

LrC: PLEASE ADD MASKING FOR SELECTIVE WHITE BALANCE WITH EYEDROPPER TOOL

[johnrellis]

Moderators, @Rikk Flohr: Photography, please merge with this existing Idea:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-ideas/p-add-white-balance-color-picker-to-the-local...

[JoyfulSara]

This would help me so much with balancing skintones.

[Suzanne Mathia]

Wouldn't you want to apply a white balance globally then adjust as needed with sluders locally?

[Christophe254758191hdc]

I would love to have the ability to select white balance (WB) with a color picker in the masks. As a real estate photographer, I often use the White Balance Selector to calibrate my images, which works really well when shooting a room with consistent lighting. However, for example, when I take photos of a master bedroom with a bathroom, hallway, etc., there are often multiple light sources, and the white balance will only work properly in one of the rooms.

Thank you

[John MacLean]

I came to the forum to start a thread on this. Thanks for your post. Too bad it's 2-1/2 years old with no remedy.

I shoot studio portraits/headshots on "neutral" grey and white seamless, but rarely is it neutral, even after WB eye dropper on the light grey patch of an X-Rite ColorChecker chart from the subject position, along with a ColorChecker Camera Calibration custom profile made for each lighting setup. So I Select Background mask and arrow up and down the Temp and Tint sliders while hovering the cursor over the BG. Eventually I get is within a 0.1-0.3 across the RGB values with too much fiddling. A single click would save a lot of time. And yes, the actual values on the Temp and Tint sliders rather than -/+ 100 would also be welcome.

[Paul Takeuchi]

I know this idea is old, but it would be very useful and time-saving. @John MacLean 's solution is what I do, but it requires a lot of fiddling and trial and error. My specific use case is for interiors where there may be one dominant light source and a handful of different lights around the room which I gray card in subsequent shots. Sometimes I want to homogenize the color balance of different bulbs, other times I want a more expressionistic variation. Right now the fastest way to get what I want is to use my various tripod shot variants with a different global white balance and layer them in photoshop then mask each layer there, a huge amount of file size wastage. Having the ability to neutralize white balance in adjustment layers (rather than manual Temperature and Tint sliders) would vastly speed up my workflow. I bet many architectual photographers would agree.

[John MacLean]

Hi @Paul Takeuchi,

Back in 2007 Photoshop’s Smart Objects layers had just surfaced and I had a new concept for an architectural shoot I was just awarded.

Luckily the home wasn’t occupied and I had about a week to shoot one image per night. I locked down my tripod with 4 sandbags and shot each different color temp light source as its own exposure. 

Then I opened up each of those as separate Smart Objects layers in Ps and hand painted layer masks. I was able to adjust each layer’s WB in ACR on the fly to “match” color as best as I could based on ColorChecker frames and a calibrated display.

Here’s a breakdown of each layer being added and the final. Also the others in the project.

http://files.johnmaclean.com/leanarch_anatomy/

https://johnmaclean.com/ARCHITECTURE/Lean-Arch---Kuhlhaus-1/thumbs

The next project I did for another local architect, I incorporated my own tungsten lighting to speed up the process, since that house didn’t have all the various color light.

Nowadays it’s a nightmare of color balancing. I feel your pain!