Why WHITE BALANCE is such a Powerful COLOR GRADING Tool! (Lightroom Tutorial)

[@plevesque]

Living in Province of Quebec in Canada, this situation with that kind of light and the cold, this tutorial is very much appreciated since a lot of pictures comes out this way…Now I will save them ! Thank you again ! Happy New Year to you ! Lot of other tutorials but mainly good health !!!!!

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

Happy New Year to you as well! Hope this will help you with your images! :-)

[@samelogio7441]

Thanks Christian. Another great lesson to close out the year. I always had trouble adjusting my white balance until a while ago when you showed us the method of aligning the RGB colours in the histogram. That has made my edits so much better. I wish you all the best in 2025.

[@jamesburne3893]

please link the video i would love to see that

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

Thank you very much thats great to hear! Wish you all the best for the new year as well!

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

Here is the video kzbin.info/www/bejne/h5LacqOkfsmBh9k @jamesburne3893

[@tomverhulst6539]

Always enjoy your videos a lot, and learn a lot. You have a very nice way of presenting, not too slow and not too fast. You always tell what you are going to do and why and demonstrate it in such a way it is easy to follow. Thanks !

[@GrahamMarsden]

You are the Master of Masking!

[@Bob4golf1]

Handy retouching details! Thanks!

[@warrenlloyd7532]

Great video as always Christian. I've ever used the eyedropper with the colour temp but I will in future!

[@carbybirett]

I , ex German, living in Australia giving you another thumbs up. My brother sent me Winter pictures from Achensee in Ö this week and they all have this strong blue tinge. But sadly iPhone jpeg pics. They are very nice compositions so I will try to fix them for him, if possible.

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

I hope you will have success with your photo, thank you for commenting!

[@keithdsylva5393]

Wow! another great tutorial, thanks to you, I am now using the histogram to correct the white balance in my pictures. Keep them coming Chrstian and all the best for 2025

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

Thank you very much for the kind comment! Happy New Year to you! :-)

[@dblejax]

Great video and demonstration. Thank you!

[@briankraft5688]

Thanks for the tutorial, great photo.

[@williamcollins5417]

Thank you. Great video.

[@rederstreet]

Good tutorial indeed. Slighty off topic: I would have cropped into 16:9 in order to get rid of the boring ice in the bottom of the photo. Somehow I think this would even make it look better.

[@photographybydeniswautier]

Yours videos is always very helpful. Thank you very much for your explanations

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

Thank you so much!

[@piyushgadkari162]

Hi Christian, brilliant video like always, I had a question about the last video though, in the thumbnail(of the previous video) you show a rough plan about where do you want to brighten or darken, which patches, so my question is, how do you decide or plan this out, and do you have any video explaining this process ? Do you have a plan for every image you edit ?

[@samelogio7441]

That is a great question. I would love to know the answer to that too.

[@JohnDoranski]

That is a great question, i.e., what preplanning is done before sitting down in front of the computer. Too often I open and just start hacking away with no determinable end result in mind.

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

Thank you very much for the comment and the question! Usually, I have somewhat of a plan what I want to do with the image when editing. I want to focus the viewers eye on a particular area and most of the times I do this by making OTHER areas darker and the important parts brighter. BUT I also play around with light trying to create shadows to add depth and kind of leading lines by adding light. This works great with hills as an example as I can make the bottom or the top of a hill darker (depending where the light is coming from). Although I do have a very gerneral plan on what I want to do, most of the more specific changes come after editing several versions of the same image, until I find something that looks good to me! I hope this makes sense, but I will also try to make a more specific video on this topic!

[@JohnDoranski]

Thank you for the information. I have only edited the same image once or twice. Now I know I am stopping to early and need to do more. A great goal for 2025. I have started setting the histogram for WB in several recent edits and have enjoyed the new end results.

[@piyushgadkari162]

@@ThePhlogPhotography Thank you, will try to go into editing images with a rough plan, lets ee if it works or not

[@stigfloberghagenphotography]

Great video and advice

[@damienu.2668]

Great job as usual, I really do like following your tutorials. Best wishes for 2025 !

[@rrr46060]

very nice

[@MrSimonj1970]

Hey Christian - do you ever SHIFT + double click the Blacks and Whites (the word next to the slider) as a base point? I often find it helpful

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

Hey, I knew about the shortcut, but I think I dont ever use it because I'm just too used to my workflow :-)

[@stevenritts193]

I love your videos. But yes, it is time to do that LOL