White Balance

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  1. Clive

    Clive New Member

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    Hi,
    I take a lot of photographs of items against a white sheet. When they are printed, the white sheet has a distinct blue tinge. The lighting is just daylight, and it make no difference which time of the year the photos are taken. I know where I can adjust the setting for WB - but which one will deal with the blue tinge?
    Thanks, in anticipation.
    Clive
     

  2. GDN

    GDN Well-Known Member

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    If you are just using daylight as your main lighting, your white balance should also be set to daylight. What is the white balance set to at the moment?

    Gary
     
  3. Caladina

    Caladina Well-Known Member

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    take a look at colour balancing for printing / using a colour checker on youtube, i have watched a few in general on wb from what i remember you need to use a colour checker to accurately wb your images so when you hand them off to the printers they have the correct wb from the colour checker, this rules out monitor colour differences etc, if you want to go a step further having your monitor colour balanced to the colour checker is a good step too as the printers should have all thier equipment balanced to a standard
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  4. Clive

    Clive New Member

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    Many thanks for your advice - both. Plenty to be going on with.
    I'm just a keen amateur! Good advice.
     

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