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How do I improve the color of photos?

Started Jun 19, 2017 | Discussions thread
AnthonyL Veteran Member • Posts: 3,686
Re: How do I improve the color of photos?

kevinNYC wrote:

Based on the replies in the thread, I tried the following:

1. Custom White Balance. This turned out to be harder than I had imagined. I used a blank page from my printer, but the custom white balance photos turned out to have too much green.

"white" paper can be many shades of white

2. Preset White Balance. The Sunlight preset had the best results. It is still a little warm, but it is close.

On my 450D I was usually set to Cloudy for results I liked

3. Raw vs JPG. Although I believed I was shooting in RAW, the settings were actually in JPG. Switched to RAW & installed DPP. DPP provides some good tools to correct the green.

DPP is a much under-rated tool.  Make sure you have the latest from the Canon Support sites.  There are Canon Digital Learning Centre/Center videos of how to best use it - take advantage of batch processing and copying/pasting settings across a selected range of images.

My 700D is much better at being on Auto WB than my 450D was - yep - I'm on AWB.

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