Setting White Balance my Way

[chrisc]

Once you've set the two points, delete the threshold adjustment layer, but leave the markers intact. when you are setting those markers, try to get to the
first one which appears. I find where they are starting to show, zoom in and delicately tweak the triangle until there is just one.

In cases where there isn't a true "white," I will try the point it gives me for white but if I don't see the balance working the way I think it should go, I don't
do the white point adjustment in the curves section, or I set according to where I think the white point is best represented according to the image profile or
histogram.



On the last step, the corners are not marked in yellow...ooops. but they are the corners inside the box. Just click on them so you can move the numbers.

When you are finished making your corrections, you can choose to flatten the layers and start from there, or just continue with the rest of your processing.

[nickjohnson]

Thanks very much Chris. I'm going to give that a big coat of looking at.

[chrisc]

I've found it to be as spot on as any other technique out there...and there are more than a few.