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

Forum|Forum|14 years ago
January 11, 2012
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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.

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John MacLean

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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!

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Paul Takeuchi

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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.

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John MacLean

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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.

Suzanne Mathia

Community Expert

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

.....Suzanne Mathia

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JoyfulSara

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This would help me so much with balancing skintones.

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ystudio219219362ch5

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

johnrellis

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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-adjustment-tools/idi-p/13646549

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Christophe254758191hdc

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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

TheDigitalDog

Inspiring

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

Author “Color Management for Photographers" & "Photoshop CC Color Management/pluralsight"

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SugarbushTreeskier

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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

Community Expert

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...

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warm_Cascade1549

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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

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Anonymous

8 years? I would still need that feature.

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