Tutorials

Setting the White Balance

Aperture lets you remove unwanted color casts from photos with a single click using the White Balance adjustment. This simple adjustment can dramatically improve the look of photos that have been shot under lighting conditions that give them a strong blue or orange tint.

White balance brick
  1. Select the photo you want to fix and make sure the Adjustments pane is visible. (If it isn’t, choose View > Inspector > Adjustments.)
  2. On the White Balance adjustment brick, click the eyedropper tool. Your cursor becomes an eyedropper and the Loupe appears, providing a magnified view of the part of the image directly under the cursor.
  1. Using the eyedropper, click a part of the photo that you know is supposed to be a neutral gray or white. This immediately adjusts the white balance, neutralizing the color cast.
  2. If you don’t like the results, just click the White Balance eyedropper again and use it to pick a different neutral area. If you’re not sure where to click, hold the mouse button down as you drag the eyedropper across the image; the white balance will update as you drag. When you see a color balance you like, release the mouse button.

You can also tweak the white balance by using the Temperature and Tint sliders on the White Balance adjustment brick.