Using a Grey Card in Lighroom
Colours can be a very subjective thing, I might process a picture and push the colours towards the warm side, where as you might process the same picture but process the colours a bit cooler. On their own both pictures will look perfect, but viewing them side by side will highlight the colour difference.
Now you might ask the question, does that really matter? To which my answer would often be, no. If you’re happy with the colour then that’s fine. However there are certain times when getting the correct colour is absolutely vital.
Perfect colour rendition is vital if you’re a record photographer shooting, for example, a painting for a catalogue. But how many of us do that? No, the place I need perfect colour is shooting portraits and that’s why I use a grey card.
In my last blog post I reviewed the WhiBal card from Michael Tapes Design. In this post I’ll show you how I use the card in my Lightroom workflow.
Fantastic tip – Thanks Gavin! Clair x
Hi Gavin, as usual great tips !! thanks. I see now a days Cinemagraph technic is getting popular, I am sure you are aware of it…can you pl. create your tutorial to make one that will be a great help. thanks again
For us that do not used Lightroom can we do this in PS CS5
The same tools are found in Photoshop’s Adobe Camera RAW.
Nice vid Gavin, you say you always crop your images to 7×5, is there a particular reason? and how does it influence print size if at all?
Thanks, Ian.
The reason is it’s the most common size people buy from me (and the cheapest). Cropping to 5×7 in Lightroom only make the image in the proportions of 5×7 not 5 inches by 7 inches which is a very different thing. So 5×7 proportions could be 10″x14″ or 20″ by 28″ prints in theory.