Nikon D3500 For Dummies

Chapter 6

Mastering Color Controls

IN THIS CHAPTER

Exploring white balance and its effect on color

Creating custom White Balance settings

Setting the Color Space (sRGB versus Adobe RGB)

Experimenting with Picture Controls

Compared with understanding certain aspects of digital photography — resolution, aperture, shutter speed, and so on — making sense of your camera’s color options is easy-breezy. First, color problems aren’t all that common, and when they are, they’re usually simple to fix with a quick shift of your camera’s White Balance setting. And getting a grip on color requires learning only a couple of new terms, an unusual state of affairs for an endeavor that often seems more like high-tech science than art.

This chapter explains the White Balance control along with other features that fine-tune the way your camera renders colors. See Chapter 11 for color adjustments you can make to existing pictures via the Retouch menu and for special color affects you can create by putting the camera into Effects exposure mode.

Understanding White Balance

Every light source emits a particular ...