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This weekend I shot a bunch of photos of my daughter’s ultimate frisbee tournament. It was a beautiful, sunny day, but I realized after the fact that I’d left the camera white balance set for fluorescent lighting from previous shooting. Arggh!
Is there a way to process/edit the photos to bring the color back to something closer to normal? I was shooting with a Nikon D5000; the photos are all jpeg, not raw. I don’t have any of the more capable $$ photo editing programs, just GIMP, Irfanview, Nikon View NX2, and some kind of basic Windows software that came with Windows 7. Any suggestions appreciated!
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some kind of basic Windows software that came with Windows 7.
That wouldn’t be Windows Live Photo Gallery would it? If so, you could try that! (If not, you can get it here. [Scroll down and click on the appropriate language to download it.]) I used to always shoot in jpg and use WLPG to “edit” my pictures. I don’t really recommend that any more, (it wastes a lot of HDD space) but in a pinch it could come in handy. If you need some more detailed instructions, just let me know, and I’ll see what I can do. Perhaps you could post an example shot that we I could use to make a tutorial, if you’d like.
It’s definitely possible to use GIMP for that task, although it would likely take a lot more work. If you’re doing it for a large collection of pictures, I would definitely try WLPG first and see if it is satisfactory.
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I have a D5200. Which florescent lighting setting did you have it in? I have 7 settings. I use Lightroom, and it works really well! If you are interested, I would not mind running a some of them through Lightroom to fix them, as it does not take long. I’ve attached a few photos to give you a example.
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Lightroom would do it in one click, but if you have Windows 8 you could download the free Adobe Photoshop Express app from the windows store. It has some very nice functions similar to lightroom. I tested it and it worked on the photo I posted earlier. You can manually adjust photos in there, just one photo @ a time. It’s really slow, and it’s hard to get it perfect. It will look a lot better though!
@buddingphotographer, Yes, I have Windows Photo Gallery, and also Microsoft Office Picture Manager (part of Office 2010, I think). I’ll try both of these. If I have trouble, I’ll check back with you.
@thefarmhand, I believe I had my camera set on cool white fluorescent. Thanks for your generous offer, but I’ll probably have 40 or so to fix. I’ll try Photo Gallery first. Do you know if Lightroom is available for one-time purchase, vs. monthly on-going subscription? Regarding Photoshop Express, I do have windows 8 tablet, so perhaps I’ll try the app as well.Thanks!
@snmiller, at this point you can still get Lightroom with either option, a one-time purchase, or subscription. Just in case you haven’t heard, Adobe just released Lightroom 6 within the last couple of weeks, so if you do want to try it out, you’ll get the latest and the greatest! You can get a free 30 day trial at the second link above if you want to “try before you buy”.
P.S. The nice thing about Lightroom is that once you figure out the correct WB setting for your photos, you can copy that setting to all of your photos at once, which could save an immense amount of time! That alone would almost be worth the 30 day trial if you have a lot of photos to process…
@buddingphotographer, thanks for suggesting WLPG. It worked well enough for my purposes to get the colors reasonably fixed, but if I make another white balance mistake like this one again, it would be much nicer to batch process the photos! Thanks for the link to Lightroom at B&H. I’ll consider it.
@snmiller, You’re very welcome! Glad you could get your photos fixed without too much trouble!
Yes, Lightroom is available as a one time payment as @buddingphotographer said. Lightroom 6 will be quite a step ahead too. If you have time to edit photos, I would definitely recommend it! The results you can obtain so easily, are astounding. As time goes by, I keep learning how to do more and more, so it seems like the software never ends! You just keep finding new stuff. (I don’t have time to watch the tutorials….) You can also nearly entirely recover images that were “beyond redemption” if they were important -and shot in RAW. So glad you got the photos resolved!
Glad you got your pictures fixed, @snmiller!
From my perspective, the best way I could think of to resolve the problem would be to download the Lightroom 30-day trial and do a batch process.
As I think everyone already understands, preventing the problem by shooting RAW would have been best. But if shooting full-size RAW isn’t economical for you, consider shooting with Medium or Small sized RAW. I used to do that a lot with fast-action shoots.
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