Beginner's mistake

[Sylvester]

I got my G3 not many weeks ago and not being used to the settings I went and took a load of pictures in daylight with my G3 colour balance set to Tungsten. Of course, I now have lot's of very blue pictures and wondered if someone out there could give me the easy answer to correcting these, using the bundled software if possible.

Thanks in anticipation...

[CyberDyneSystems]

If you shot in RAW format you can change the white point pretty simply using the bundled RAW software.

If they are jpegs,. then you will need to work with color balance in Photoshop Elements.. (er,. I don't know what software comes with a G3,.. sorry)

[FlyingPete]

I believe Photoshop 5.0LE is included with the G3.

The tool I use in Photoshop to correct White Balance in a JPG image (with no RAW available), is the Variations tool. It can be found under 'Image' Menu, submenu 'Adjustments', option 'Variations'.

Have a play with that, I have found it most useful for removing all sorts of colour castes!

[Cadenza]

There is a much easier way to make a quick WB correction
on photoshop than going through that cumbersome series
of variations.

Open the photo with the incorrect white balance in PS, then
on the menu bar, select to image/adjustments/levels.

It will give you a little screen box with the picture's histogram.
Don't worry about the histogram, look in the bottom right
corner, you'll see three little eye dropper tools, one black,
one grayish, and one white. Select either the white or the
black one, and then click on your photo, on a part of the
photo where the color (respective to your choice of eye
dropper) is supposed to be white (clothing, teeth, white of
the eyes, etc.) or black (people's hair, shadows, clothing, dark eyes, etc.).

The eyedropper will give you an automatic WB adjustment,
and if you don't like it, you can select another white/black
point until you find one that you like. Very easy.

After the eyedropper finds you a satisfactory WB adjustment,
then you can still go and fine tune it with Variations. But
usually it isn't even necessary, this step will save you a lot
of time.

Good luck,
Cadenza

[Sylvester]

Thanks all for the speedy and helpful suggestions - I'll give them a go.

[Andy_T]

Avoid a second beginner's mistake that spoiled some of my photos...

... if you use the G2 at night and set the ISO to 200, be sure to turn it back to 50 afterwards!

Regards,
Andy