When taking pictures with a DSLR camera, you can totally preset a white balance to give your pictures a uniquely distinctive look. Nonetheless, with nowadays photo editing software on the rise, although the good ones such as Adobe Lightroom 4 are too expensive for many people, it’s totally possible to change the white balance of photos without using custom white balance (i.e., preset white balance). Of course, you have to shoot photos in raw to have effectively change your white balance, because only in raw format you won’t lose important details when photos go under major change (i.e., major editing). Still, I think I like the idea of taking great photos first before editing great photos after, because when great photos get to be edited — we can either enhance it even better or make it worse and the former which is definitely the goal. So, by presetting or doing a custom white balance from the get go is definitely an ideal in my opinion. Also, going through a custom white balance method at least once, one gets to know how white balance works a little better; this might help one improves post processing process in regarding to doing white balance in photo editing software. This is why I don’t think it’s unnecessary to do custom white balance beforehand even though one shoots in raw format. Anyhow, you should check out the YouTube video I found (i.e., not mine but I found on YouTube) as this video will be an excellent guide in regarding to doing custom white balance. Enjoy!!!
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