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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneF" data-source="post: 524703" data-attributes="member: 12496">There are always more choices in raw.    We can then just set incandescent or daylght or cloudy WB, etc (in raw).   But the problem is we rarely know what exact white balance should be, there are so many variations and shades.   Or we also have an Auto WB choice, but it never knows either, it's a little crude.  So we can try a few things, and choose the best choice now (after we can see it).  Or there are sliders, we just silde them until it looks good. But there are even better choices yet.  We have a white balance tool, used to just click a known white point, and it neutralizes that color in the overall image to make it be white.   Here, on the blue result,  I just picked a white spot (on a fence?) just above an ear. I wasn't sure of it, it was quite unknown and iffy, but it seemed to work pretty well.  Often it does.  If not, then just try something else.  This was the raw editor but working on your blue JPG, which does have limited range now, compared to a raw image.   And I also reduced exposure more than a stop, I thought it helped.<img src="http://www.scantips.com/g2/before_wbb.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The best thing for a serious try is to include a KNOWN white card in the scene (maybe at the far edge, to be cropped off, or for me, usually in a test shot in the same light), to click to accurately remove any color cast (in a known precise way). But many images already contain some white object, trying to look real white (has to be in the right main light though).  Even a sheet of cheap white copy paper or envelope, or a white porcelain dish, etc, can work well, those things actually trying to be white (not off white). Some of this stuff is discussed at <a href="http://www.scantips.com/lights/whitebalance.html" target="_blank">Easy White Balance Correction, with or without Raw</a>But a Porta Brace White Balance card is only $5 at B&H, and it really works well. But raw does make our photos to be easy, esp white balance and exposure. We can simply just fix it.</blockquote>

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