I'm posting over on Paper Heart Camera today and I wanted to share with you all too!
How many of us love to take photos of our kids in the bathtub only to have them come out looking yellow and nasty and depressing? I know it's not just me. Most of the time the problem is that your white balance is off (unless you have a ton of amazing natural light in your bathroom, which, well, I'm not so lucky). Fortunately it is a super easy fix in post processing! (PS, I know there is always the option to get your white balance correct in camera, but then what fun would this post be?)
The white balance tool is super easy to use. See that little eyedropper thingie? Click on it. Next, click on something in your photo that is supposed to be white, black, or grey. (I clicked on a part of the bathtub). And voila! Like magic your photo isn't yellowish anymore!
See? Before: (Ew! Ick!)
And after! Ta-da!
And since I'm showing you one of my
favorite Lightroom tools I thought I might as well show you my other favorite
tool...the straighten tool. Seriously. I love it. To use it you just
click on the little level icon and then you click along a line in your
photo that you want to be either horizontal or vertical. In this photo I
"drew" along the edge of the bathtub. Lightroom will then "straighten"
your photo and put the crop box around it (because when you straighten
you end up losing a part of the edge of your photo), so you can then
drag the corners of the crop box to make it smaller (like I did here) and
then when you like what you see just hit enter to accept your straighten
and crop! This is my favorite tool because I actually think it is
really fun to do. I am a total nerd, I know.
Oh how I needed this post! I just took about 100 pictures of the kiddos in the tub and was very disheartened to see them all yellow and dingy after the fact. Off to scrub them up!
ReplyDeleteGreat tip, I need to get on the Lightroom train.
ReplyDeleteThose are the two tools I use more often then not! Great tip to share. :)
ReplyDeleteMary
You are my favorite kinda nerd!
ReplyDeleteI have been wondering for months how to do this. Wish I was lying. Thanks for sharing!
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