Bam! That’s it! Your white balance is set. Get the White Balance tool (I) from the Toolbar (it looks like an eyedropper half-filled with gray), and click it once directly on the gray card. If you’re using Bridge, you can select them all, press Command-R (PC: Ctrl-R), and you’ll see all the images appear in a filmstrip on the left side of the Camera Raw window, as shown here. Select all the images, including the gray card shot, and open those in Adobe Camera Raw. Once she’s holding the card, take one shot. The card she’s holding here is the tear-our card from my Lightroom book. Hand your subject the gray card and ask her to hold it so it’s in clear view (I usually have her hold it up near her face, as shown here).
In this case, we’re doing a portrait shoot (these shots were actually from a live session I did at NAPP’s Photoshop World Conference). Once you get your lighting set, you’ll need to take one photo with the gray card clearly visible in the scene. If you don’t have either of those books, you can pick up a gray card from just about any local photo store or online. These cards are so handy that I include a perforated tear-out gray card in both my Adobe Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 Book for Digital Photographers books, so if you have either of those books, go tear out your gray card. A gray card is just what it sounds like, a card that’s 18% gray that we use to help us set a really accurate white balance.
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In this article, we’ll show you how to set your white balance accurately using a gray card.
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