Camera set to tungsten white balance in error

[Brachytron]

Hi, my wife accidentally shot some daylight jpgs with the camera set to tungsten white balance and of course they are too blue. I've tried several methods to colour correct including Open as RAW in PhotoShop. Can anyone help with a reliable method? Thanks.

 

[mbscad]

Hi Mark,
I did the same last year and I never managed to get the photos correctly balanced again. I tried lots of editing tools as well and decided that it was more complex than just editing RGB curves.

 

[vetonbike]

If shot on canon I find manual tuning in DPP usually works ok .

 

[BrynBoru]

You can in theory apply WB adjustments to a jpg image in LR, same as for a raw file. Unfortunately jpgs usually don't carry enough info in the colour gamut to give you any reasonable chance of recovery. You can't retrieve what isn't there, so won't really help whatever "normal" editing software you try. There are those who are able to do this in Photoshop, according to Youtube, which is fine if you are into manipulating the pixels.
See this:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4X8BhlsxVk

and
http://photoblogstop.com/photoshop/accurate-white-balance-adjustments-in-photoshop
Moral of the story is programme the camera for raw or raw+jpg! Hope that helps.

 

[GreenNinja67]

Will the shots look good in monochrome?

That'll be the easiest thing to do with them.

 

[ancient_mariner]

If they are in RAW & you have lightroom I would look for one with a white surface, then use the white balance dropper in the basic editing section to set the white balance - it may not hit it perfectly first time, but will get close enough to tweak. Apply that white balance setting to the rest of the images, tweaking slightly to taste.

 

[BrynBoru]

They are jpgs according to the OP.

 

[ancient_mariner]

They are jpgs according to the OP.

Comprehension failure.

It may work as well as anything can in that case, although there may be no saving them.

 

[Craig_85]

It depends on the photo, and crucially if there is anything in it that should be various shades of neutral grey. If there are, or things that are even close to looking grey you can use the colour sampler tool in PS to pick at least 3 points, shadow, mid tone and highlight of the closest thing to what should be neutral in the shot then with the info box open adjust the individual RGB colour curves to match the middle value for each sample. Do this as an adjustment layer so you can fade the opacity to taste.