On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 10:53 PM, Richard Levitte <[email protected]>wrote:

> In message <[email protected]> on Tue, 02 Apr 2013 12:37:53 -0700,
> Mark Heieis <[email protected]> said:
>
> mheieis> Hi There,
> mheieis>
> mheieis> Could someone point me to an explanation of white balance
> temperature
> mheieis> "in" vs "out"? I've been looking but haven't been able to find
> any usage
> mheieis> examples or explanations. (Using DT 1.1.3)
> mheieis>
> mheieis> Much appreciated.
>
> My perception is that the "in" temperature can be used to indicate
> what temperature the camera or you perceived at the time the picture
> was shot, while the "out" temperature is what you desire for the final
> picture.
>

Camera white balance is considered equivalent to 5000K by default.

If you don't want to change the color temperature that you see, just
> leave them both at the same value.  Any color temperature change is
> really the difference between the "in" and "out" values.  No
> difference => no change.
>

But we're currently considering options to change this to a more typical
single _absolute_ temperature slider approach.

Regards,
Pascal de Bruijn
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