If you’ve ever taken a selfie with indoor artificial lighting, you have experience a poorly white balanced image. Sometimes you can tones that are far too warm, sometimes they’re too cold—either way, your image isn’t the best it can be. Here’s where PhotoShop comes in; there are a few simple ways to change white balance using PhotoShop, but many of the more basic methods result in imperfectly balanced images as they’re rudimentary edits at best. In this tutorial, you will learn how to get (near) perfect white balanced images (almost) every time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUPsvAcpYUg
The video above will walk you through some of the basic processes of white balance editing and explain some of their shortfalls. One of the more advanced methods even draws criticism; using the black point and white point selection tools in a “curves” layer is better than using a color balance layer and, for the most part, just guessing. However, some images do not have pure blacks or pure whites, and can leave the image with a somewhat incorrect color balance. The video will show you how to instead use the grey point selector to get the best color balance possible. This involves multiple layers and may not be intuitive for a beginner at PhotoShop, but Travis makes the process look easy and accessible to even the most introductory PhotoShop user.