Nikon D5500 For Dummies

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Mastering Color Controls

In This Chapter

Exploring white balance and its effect on color

Creating custom White Balance settings

Bracketing white balance

Setting the Color Space (sRGB versus Adobe RGB)

Taking a quick look at 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 aforementioned White Balance control along with other features that enable you to fine-tune the way your camera ...