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Having Lightroom Auto-Set “Half” Your White Balance

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This is one of those tips that might have kinda snuck by, because it’s one of those that Adobe didn’t make a bunch of noise about when it first added this feature, but it can be really handy.

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Whether you shot in RAW or JPEG mode, when you go to the White Balance preset pop-up menu, one of the choices is “Auto” (seen above left, being used on a JPEG image, which is why you only see those three choices). However, you don’t have to let Lightroom set both of the White Balance settings — if you hold the Shift key then double-click on either slider, it Auto-sets the White Balance for just that slider (as seen in top right where I just Shift-double-clicked on the Temp slider).

Although I mostly use this Shift-Double-Click technique on the Whites and Blacks sliders (to have Lightroom Auto-set the White and Black points), I thought you find this less well-known auto-set feature handy from time to time.

Hope you have a great Monday!

Best,

-Scott

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