White balance a photograph after it has been taken?
brianstoiber wrote: The company I work for is going to be developing a project that involves photographing different materials. We want to capture the actual colors or as close to as possible. I was wondering, if I had a card of some type inserted in the picture of a color that I knew. After the photograph was taken, would I be able to adjust the picture so that the color in the card matched what it actually was?
We are going to be photographing in imperfect lighting conditions so this was an idea that was thrown out to maybe help with getting a better color match.
This will be the only time you will hear me suggest this to someone. But here it is, set your camera to Automatic White Balance, with your Metering set to Matrix so it measures more of the scene. Then you just shoot in Raw+Jpeg Fine depending on how good you need the images for print, if it is being printed. If you shoot in RAW you can adjust the WB, in Jpeg you cannot, but if your Jpegs are good then you are good to go.
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