by
genevh » Sat Jan 10, 2009 1:49 am
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To do this in LR, select the Eyedropper Tool in the WB section of Basic in the Develop Module. You then want to find a target where the RGB values (circled) are within 1% of each other. As you can see by this example, the values I found are within .5% of each, from 90.6% to 91.1%. And my apologies to John here. I couldn't find the same spot I used the first time either. I used off the shoulder of one of the spectators as shown by the arrow. (the picture is obviously
not adjusted here)
In previous editing I tried targeting the neutral gray spot, which according to Scott Kelby and crew is in the 60% range, as close as you can get the values to those. When I read about the 1% recommendation in Mikkel Aaland's book "Lightroom2 Adventure", I started trying it and found I was starting to get better results. I have also found that it doesn't seem to matter where you pick, just so those values are all within 1%. In the
other thread where we are discussing this, in my 2nd post there is a shot where the neutral point was selected from the black shorts of a spectator. The results were pretty much the same as from when I picked from someone's grayish shirt in the background that resulted in much higher target percentage values in the high 80% range.
Below is the finished pic using the WB target selected from above, with Saturation adjustments of Red -12 and Orange -26; then Luminance adjustments of Red +9 and Orange +16. Saturation was done from the cheek of the wrestler who seems to be winning the match, and the Luminance was done from the orange legging of our guy who seems to be losing at this point.
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Hope this helps.....
These adjustments can also be done in ACR with CS. Unfortunately, only WB can be set in ACR inside PSE. The color would need to done in PSE after opening the picture from ACR. This is one of the reasons I personally like LR so much. The control I have over these things is so much easier, and in my opinion, better.