A Simple solution to white balance interiors
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- Interior and Real Estate photography often runs into mixed color temperatures. You can white balance for the interior or natural light, but that will leave you with yellow interiors or blue windows. In this video, learn a simple way to Lumenzia to perfectly balance both.
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This is such a game changer for me. I used to actually use the pen tool to get selections of the outdoor views . I always had a problem with curtains having a messed up colour tones .. but with this technqiue it takes care of all this and in just a second.. Cant thank you enough for this carzy revelation ... thank you !!!!!!!!
Glad that was so helpful!
Excellent approach!!! Thank you for the tutorial.
Nice, I've struggled with that, simple when you know how, I now know how
Great! Very simple solution to a big problem. Thanks, Greg!
As a professional interiors/architectural photographer who deals with this kind of thing on regular basis, I can tell you that it is not always, or even often, quite this simple. It depends upon the range of colors that are inside and outside, as well as the nature of the interior and exterior lighting. It takes a range of technical solutions that include using supplementary lighting, controlling the ambient lighting and using a variety of digital processing techniques to be able to deal effectively with the broad range of mixed lighting situations encountered when trying to make interior photos at a high quality level.
Absolutely, just one of many good options to know for various challenges.
Now how do you also fix the orange interior color. I have this problem with one of my images, orange interior and blue coming from the windows. I want to make the orange more whitish, so cooler rather than warmer.
Great video Greg. I always shoot separate frames for the different types of light. I would love to see more videos of interiors like this. Thank you so much.
Thanks for these tips Greg!!
You bet!
now that's a time-saver thanks Greg
Great!
Thank you Greg! It`s not easy, this can be big issue if you are not careful... I must try that! Cheers!
Nice!!! Handy "index", appreciate your helpful stuff. Thanks.
Greg, the King
Ha ha!
Dang! Could have used this last week! Great solution for a tough issue, thanks!
Let me know how it goes when you try it. Takes about 30 seconds once you know the steps.
I don't know if you can help me here? I have the same problem, but I only have Affinity Photo and I would like to do the same thing that you are doing here.
Do you know if it can be done in Affinity Photo?
If so, could you explain it as I am struggling trying to do it.
I know you did this video a while ago, but I can hope. LOL
cheers in advance.
I haven’t tried, I find these sorts of things much easier to do in PS
Very slick. Thanks Greg. Could lumenzia solve a problem with exterior/interior brightness differential with a properly exposed, but very bright exterior image and a much less bright, but properly exposed interior image; to properly blend them? Thanks in advance.
Yes, that type of work is known as “exposure blending” and is one of the most popular uses of luminosity masks. Here are some demos and a full blown course I have on the topic: gregbenzphotography.com/exposure-blending-luminosity-masks
Kirt Germond exposure blending yields incredible results, but do expect a learning curve. It’s an advanced topic, but the payoff is well worth it.
I was looking for a solution like this, bought the plugin and followed the video but my Photoshop settings do not mirror those in the video at all (for example, when I double clicked on the New Smart Object Copy layer, there is no dropper to adjust white balance anywhere and I can't seem to find that)
If double-clicking the Smart Object does not show the Camera RAW interface, then it isn’t a Camera RAW Smart Object. How did you open that file? Can use Edit / Open as Smart Object from Lightroom, it hold shift to get “open Object” when opening directly into Photoshop.
Can also just process twice and send flat layers to PS and use this same approach. No need to white balance in PS.
@@gregbenzphotography I load RAW image and I have to convert it to smart object before I can right click on it to make a duplicate smart object
If it isn’t a Smart Object the first moment the image is opened, it is not RAW. You are opening the image as just a normal layer. Converting afterward is not going to give you access to the RAW data, needs to be opened the right way.
Hey Greg, Thank you for the video! I tried linking thru to the Lumenzia purchase page but there is onto the option to pay via CC, Do you accept PayPal or anything? I am interested in buying it but just hesitate giving my CC info on smaller sites,
Payments are processed by Stripe (one of the largest online processors) and down so via checkout on DPD (a professional cart system). It is a PCI compliant process that protects you. Your card data does not flow through my site or servers.
If you wish to pay via PayPal, that is possible with an extra fee for manual processing. Please email if you’d like to do that.
Really appreciate the outstanding and professional video...BUT...I have the latest version of Photoshop and when I right click on the background layer it does not give me the option of making a copy of the background layer (even with it unlocked) as a smart object. Just talked to Adobe and they are adamant that that feature does not exist...so, are you using a plug in that provides those options?? Just wondering what is going on. Forgot to mention, you are using Mac and I am on Windows 10. Maybe that is a feature in Mac and not in Windows, but generally features are provided in both platforms.
That’s not a background layer, it’s a camera RAW smart object
@@gregbenzphotography Thanks....somehow after eye surgery I sometimes miss the small details...like the indication that the layer was a smart object. Thanks again for the great videos
To keep the video short, I just mentioned that rather than showing the export from LR.
Genious!
Hi Greg, Like you videos. I have Lumenzia. My question is: Ia it possible to replace a sky with Lumenzia.
Absolutely, using exposure blending techniques (with the luminosity selection based on the ground, not sky).
Here’s some more info on blending, and I do a sky replacement in my course: gregbenzphotography.com/exposure-blending-luminosity-masks
This is a nice and quick solution, however, am I not seeing a lot of magenta in that window? It is better than before, especially the blue intensity, but still doesn't seem natural.
Doesn’t really look magenta to me, but you can white balance however you like with this technique.
Right side of the window, in the center area, and a little on top, very faded magenta@@gregbenzphotography
Would have to review. Simple to fix.
Really like how you changed the outside on this with relative ease, two questions: 1 could you do this with an already hdr blended ( blended with 3 raw photos in Lightroom)?
2, is there another way to get the same kind of mask without using the color selection?
Where I’m going with this is I’m in Florida and tend to use just HDR via Lightroom but my biggest pain is when shooting a house that has louvre blinds, so my only option is to use a flash and do a darkened window pull, I would prefer to use this kind of technique but most windows have multiple colors especially blue hence the reason for getting the selection a different way. Thank you
(1) Yes. The "merge to HDR" in LR produces a RAW file and you could treat it the same way. You can also do the same with a true HDR image (See here for more info: gregbenzphotography.com/hdr/)
(2) Sometimes (such as if the light is brighter than others around it). It depends on the image. You could treat it as an "exposure" blend but just vary up the color temp. See gregbenzphotography.com/exposure-blending-luminosity-masks
You can create a dummy version of the layer with a stronger color cast to help guide the creation of the selection (and then discard that dummy layer after).
@@gregbenzphotography brilliant, thank you, do you have a link to buy your newest version.
@@bobnkb174 You can get the latest Lumenzia and my courses via gregbenzphotography.com/store
@@gregbenzphotography thank you, I bought it and installed as per the video, I restarted PS but my window drop down menu doesn’t show an extensions folder anywhere? It is installed as I have checked.
Thank you for your purchase!
v10+ shows under the Plugins menu in PS. Please email me if you need further support.
CS6 panel?
Not following your question. Lumenzia works on CS6, if that’s what you’re asking.
Yes sir I was messing with this script and thank you so much for taking the time to develop it. However my panel looks different than yours. Is that just a cc vs CS6 thing?
Ah, yes. The technology options for CS6 limit the interface. You can do almost all the same things, often by using a shortcut key. Click the Tutorials button and look for a video for CS6 users for more details.
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