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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LouCioccio" data-source="post: 116613" data-attributes="member: 12542">Sharif.al,Not sure what software but if you have Elements 8 or 9 and above or Photoshop CS4 and above you can open your jpegs BUT if using Windows its Open As Mac users its just Open and when you navigated to your image look at the window that shows jpeg and click on it and you can open in Camera RAW.  You could use the white point selector but remember white point means 18% or 12% grey.  I used the ground of dirt by his left sleeve and got a default color temp of -42 and moved the the slider to -12 while watching his skin tone and the oranges.In normal circumstance you would have seen real kelvin numbers and since the image was embedded I could have chosen several default Nikon of Landscape,Portrait, Neutral and so on.  Your exposure is on after I moved that temp slider so as others said you could try RAW and definitely use a grey card or any of the many different ones out there or can use one of my favorite not sure if in your local is a translucent top of Pringles can to shoot a white balance.But in Camera RAW you will have a choice of white balance; I know it can be a little overwhelming but you can nail it.In some of Scott Kelby Elements book he has a card that is divided in fours Black, White, and Grey (film) and Digital you could use that in your first frame then pick that digital grey when selecting the other images.Ciao,Lou Cioccio</blockquote>