All language subtitles for 83 - Basic Adjustments Panel

For the next set of lectures,

we'll be taking a closer
look at the remaining adjustment panels.

We'll start with the basics panel.

Go ahead and expand the basic panel.

If you don't see it right,
click on any panel heading in.

Make sure there's a checkmark next
to basic

for this exercise will need to open
the image with file name.

Spring 002. jpg.

The first part of this

exercise is to correct
the white balance of this photo.

We already discussed
white balance earlier.

We know that white balance reflects
the accuracy of colors in the photo

relative to what would have been seen
with the naked eye.

We also know that the ability
of our camera to accurately record white

balance depends on the color temperature
settings we used when the photo was taken.

Sometimes, even if you do use the correct

white balance setting,
the colors can still be off.

Photographers have a number of tools
at their disposal

to get the most accurate
white balance reading on their camera.

This normally involves using a gray card
to set a custom white balance reading.

Sometimes going through all that trouble
may not be practical or realistic.

Lightroom
makes it very easy to adjust white balance

accurately by using a neutral gray
tone in our image as a reference point.

To do this, select
a color picker located here.

Now, as soon as you hover
your mouse over the preview area,

you'll notice a color palette appears.

This palette magnifies the color range
around the area where your mouse is

pointed.

It also indicates
the RGV values of the color.

Right now,

we're looking for a neutral gray color
that we can use as a reference point.

It's important to know that a neutral gray

will have all our g B values equal
to one another.

This is because when we mix
an equal amount

of red, green and blue,
a neutral gray is produced.

Now, before you click anywhere,
just uncheck the auto

dismiss checkbox over here
if you already have it checked.

This will make sure
that this color palette

that we see will remain on the screen
once we click.

Otherwise it'll disappear.

So I'll go ahead
and look for a neutral gray.

And if you need to zoom in, you can.

But most of the time
you can get pretty lucky.

So I'm looking at a fairly neutral tone
here.

And you can see that the RGV values are
65, 61 and 73.

I could do a bit better,
but this should be sufficient

enough
to get a pretty accurate white balance.

So watch what happens when I click
my left mouse button. Now

Lightroom automatically adjusts
all the colors in the image

based on the neutral reference point
we just defined.

And you can see
it made quite a difference.

The temperature in this case has gone up,
plus 18

in the tint has gone down -43.

So Lightroom
automatically made that adjustment for us

and that's how the auto
white balance balance correction works.

And once you've completed these steps,
you can put your color picker

back in the holder here
just so you don't accidentally

click somewhere else.

Now, before we do,
go on to the next lecture,

I just wanted to point out
a couple of other things.

This color palette that you see here,

you can adjust it
scale using the scale slider over here.

And if you don't want to see it at all,
you can uncheck the show loop icon

checkbox.

Okay, so now we'll just

put the color picker back again
and we'll see you in the next lecture.