Photo Answers

Mixing it up

Can I mix white balances together in a single image when I post-process my raws?

Lesley Howe

Indeed you can, Lesley – and doing so can sometimes really enhance a shot. As you’ll know, when you decide on the white balance to use in-camera, you have a colour temperature that’s set for the whole image. On most occasions, this is absolutely fine and will give you the result you want. But sometimes, playing around with the colour temperature on different parts of a scene will give you a better end result. You can do this in Lightroom or Adobe Camera Raw by using one of the localised adjustment tools, such as an Adjustment Brush, a Graduated Filter or a Radial Filter.

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