Batch Apply White Balance to Images (Personal White Balance)

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Batch Apply White Balance to Images (Personal White Balance)

The white balance adjustments made to a RAW image shot in a specific shooting environment can be registered as personal white balance. You can then perform efficient white balance adjustment by applying this personal white balance to a large number of RAW images shot in the same shooting environment.

Registering Personal White Balance

  1. Adjust the white balance (Adjusting Color Tone by Changing White Balance, Adjusting Color Tone Using Click White Balance, Adjusting White Balance with Color Temperature, Tuning White Balance with Color Wheel).

    • To adjust white balance, select a setting other than [ ( )] from the [White balance adjustment] list box. You will be unable to register the adjustments if you select [ ( )].

  2. In the [RAW] tool palette, click the [Register] button.

    • The [Register personal white balance] dialog box appears.

  3. Select the button number to be registered from the list and click the [OK] button.

To use the registered personal white balance on another computer
  1. In step 3, click the [Export] button to write as a file.

  2. Copy the file to another computer.

  3. In DPP on the other computer, display the window of step 3.

  4. Click the [Import] button and in the window that appears, select the copied file.

You cannot change or adjust white balance with multiple-exposure RAW images created on the camera.

Applying Personal White Balance

  1. In the main window, select the image to which white balance is to be applied.

  2. Click the [Tool Palette] button on the toolbar.

    • The tool palette appears.

  3. Click the personal white balance number button that is to be applied.

    • Personal white balance is applied to all the selected images.