A Guide to Color Balance

As I was writing in my first post, I will be posting some useful guides just for the sake of content, but of course I will ensure the quality of all this guides haha. This week I will cover the basics of color balance in Photoshop CS 5.5

Ever got those photos which look way too pale, or way too yellow for your liking. If you have photoshop, you could easily edit these photos to your liking! Of course you could just press Shift+Ctrl+B to do the nifty auto color function, but sometimes it just would not work as you like :( Don't worry, I have a simple solution to this problem.

Step 1: Open up your not so great looking photo
Step 2: Go to the 'Image' tab then 'Adjustments' and select 'Color Balance' from the drop down menu, or the much easier way, press Ctrl+B .

see the ctrl+B part?

Step 3: Now you can fool around with the sliders! Until you get your desired effect. If you feel that the sliders aren't giving much impact, you can go ahead and select highlights from the tone balance and fool with the sliders again!

fooling around with meh cow

Step 4: And you are done! You can go ahead and upload to Facebook or Twitter now xD.

Next time, I will cover on how to brighten up photos which are too dark!