Lightroom and WB on a Raw File

[williamr15724395]

I'm trying to confirm or refute a statement from a fellow photographer, that LR only allows one WB to be set on a Raw file. His argument is that's why there's only an option to enter Kelvin in the Basic Module, and in masking there's only an option for temperture sliders. Any insight on this????

[Rob_Cullen]

As I understand it- WB is set in the Basic Panel with an indication of Kelvin degrees. This is a Global setting.

In the Masking panel you are only changing the 'Amount' -100+100 of the global set WB where it is not referrered to as WB but instead 'Color'..

Try an extreme WB in Basic panel, and then note that a Mask adjustment for 'Color' (NOT WB) is very limited.

So I guess your fellow photographer is basically correct 🙂

[JohanElzenga]

He is correct. A raw file does not have a white balance yet, and in the Basic panel that is where you set it. There is only one white balance. Anything else, like a local adjustment in a mask, or these sliders when you have selected an RGB file (jpeg, tiff) which already has the white balance applied to its pixels, is an adjustment of the colors, not a white balance setting.