On Sat, 2008-10-04 at 10:55 +0200, David Vincent-Jones wrote: > > #3) I need a white balance spot selector. Ufraw has a good whitebalance > > spot selector whereby one can select a spot as gray and then use it to > > adjust the white balance for the rest of the image. I often shoot gray > > cards and use them to calibrate the white balance on my images. I find > > that this single adjustment can make the most incredible difference on > > an otherwise correctly adjusted image.
> I also have been used to using the 'eye-dropper' to achieve a color > correction ( although I do not usually shoot with a gray card) .. > however I am now finding that simply using the warm/cool slider so that > the red and blue histograms are matched closely provides a very fast > alternative that suits me even more. The histogram in RS is a real > winner. I agree, I love the histogram. Great work there. But I don't think balancing the histogram is going to give me what I need to get the whitebalance right in all my shots. The WB sustem in ufraw is very good. I can consistently get pictures to look great with it, with a minimum of fussing. The thing I like doing is to correct the WB on a gray card shot and then use that setting for the rest of the shots in that environment. I've compared my best "by eye" settings with those obtained with this method and the gray card wins almost every time. Its really nice that ufraw has the color temp displayed and adjustable. That is a nice way to correct things because you can compare your value with the camera color temp and it also makes it easy to tweak images for print or for computer display. I like the images I send to my local printer to have the color temp bumped about 200K. Its an easy, sure fire, one step way to adjust the images for printing. I actually adjust the exposure about 1/3 stop brighter too. They don't look right on the screen this way, but they print up really nice. _______________________________________________ Rawstudio-users mailing list [email protected] http://rawstudio.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rawstudio-users
