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There’s more to white balance than getting the whites balanced: it’s about every colour in the image. There are two ways to do this: you can set the white balance in the camera, or shoot in Raw and set it afterwards. The best practice is to set it in-camera, but sometimes this isn’t practical. By shooting in Raw, you can leave your white balance set to Auto WB, safe in the knowledge that you can tweak it afterwards, if necessary.
Adobe Photoshop’s Camera Raw and Lightroom offer near-identical white balance tools, which you’ll find either in the Basic panel in Camera Raw or in the Develop module in Lightroom. The tools are simple, but there are some essential tricks to learn that can help you get the most out of them.
One of the great things about white balance tools is that you can use them selectively in different areas of the photo. With a landscape like the one above, it means we can pull out a touch of warmth in the sky while also correcting the overall cool cast to the scene.
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