Changing white balance for multiple photos

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Changing white balance for multiple photos

Hello All, and Happy Holidays...

During the holidays I was taking photos at a family gathering, about 125 or so, under tungsten light. I forgot about setting the white balance on the camera to tungsten until half-way through the evening. Is there a way to easily change the colour cast for the initial photos? I'm hoping that there is a "retro" white balance setting since all these images will need the same colour shift. I am using an old old version of photoshop that doesn't have a batch function, though I am waiting for the CS3 - but that could take awhile since its coming through the school.

Thanks in advance!!

G4 iBook, Intel Mini, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Dec 29, 2007 9:50 AM

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Old Toad

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Dec 29, 2007 11:52 AM in response to SethB

SethB:

You can try changing the temperature setting in the Adjust pane of iPhoto to what suits you best. Then click on the copy button (in the Adjust pane) , go to the next photo via the arrow buttons and click on the paste button. That will let you go thru the photos fairly fast applying the same correction to each.

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SethB Author

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Dec 31, 2007 9:13 AM in response to Old Toad

Thanks

I had forgotten about that feature, and for the number of images involved this will work nicely. I also discovered another tip in a UK magazine called iCreate that will help me - using the eyedropper tool. Clicking the eyedropper on something that is supposed to be colour neutral tells iPhoto 08 to make the colour adjustments to bring that spot back to neutral. It is a real time saver to make that initial adjustment, and then I will use the copy/paste tip you provided.

Thanks again - and Happy New Year

Seth

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