Set The Overall Colour Palette

With the lens corrections made, click on the ‘Basic’ tab and adjust the colour temperature. Because white balance is a floating value in a RAW file, you can change it, so your colours are not fixed at the value set on the camera.

Click on the ‘White Balance’ dropdown menu, and pick the appropriate preset for your shot, such as ‘Daylight’. Below this, the ‘Temperature’ slider lets you fine-tune the setting. Moving it left will cool down the image – i.e. make it more blue – and moving it right will warm it up –make it more amber. On our example image here, we’ve set it to 5650, adding extra warmth. The ‘Tint’ slider allows you to shift the colour towards green or magenta. Most scenes will require a neutral value between -15 and +15.