[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Oct 4, 2006, at 4:56 PM, Gonz wrote: > > >>>Why not just adjust the white balance until it is correct and never >>>mind what color temperature the RAW converter wants to report? >> >>Because its nice to start with a reference you know and adjust from >>there, instead of blindly moving the white balance around until you >>like it. > > > In Camera Raw, use the grayscale eyedropper on a segment of the photo > that you feel represents a medium-light gray tone. ACR will set the > color temperature and tint to match that to a reference value for a > medium-light gray, which should make whites look white and that spot > look gray if your monitor is properly calibrated and you've set up > your color preferences correctly. Make fine tuning adjustments from > there. > Of course, the eyedropper can be handy, I use it alot. But not every pic is going to have something with grey (equal RGB values). In the pictures I was working on , this was the situation. Its a pain to have to hunt around the white balance space to get what you want when you know what the kelvin temp is roughly.
> If you haven't got a calibrated monitor setup and/or haven't set up > your color preference, anything you see on screen is likely to be off > any expected color temperature/color cast setting... > Thats not the situation in this case. The monitor was calibrated not long ago, and everything else works fine, including old PEF files from my *istD. These colors (with the Pentax converted DNG) are very off. > Godfrey > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
