Color Balance

[Crazy764]

I used to use "Auto Balance" in Photoshop on most of my photos. But I find that they seem to take on a "blueish" hue. If I don't adjust the color balance at all, the photos seem to appear "reddish".

Every time I try to play around with the Color Balance manually, I can't decide when it looks the best or most natural.

Anyone have any tips when adjusting the colors?

[SWA733Captain]

Never use Auto in Photoshop. Always do it manually, you'll get much better results.

[Crazy764]

Never use Auto in Photoshop. Always do it manually, you'll get much better results.

But then I can't decide when it looks good.

I'm always like "Oh! This looks great. Oh wait, this looks better...uhm, nevermind, it looked best in the beginning..." etc.

[Crazy764]

I thought I'd post some specimens up for you guys to play around with.
And please, tell me how much (the numbers) you added or took away from each color.

[Simpleboy]

I sometimes use Auto balence, i sometimes use manual balence, sometimes I leave it. But i always inspect the photo before hand and make sure im happy with the results.

I dont use Photo shop

[FlyingPhotog]

I never use auto balance. I will manually use color balance slider to adjust colors to make them a little more bold in most cases.

[uy707]

Used to rely on Auto-Balance, but now also do it manually taking care not to let the adding/minus percentage of light slide bar overrun the track !!!
Alain