How apply one White Balance correction to multiple photos

[zforray]

I recently purchase the WhiBal White Balance Reference/correction "cards". One nice ability these cards give you is to take a "white balance correction reference" picture. By this I mean, you take a picture of the WhiBal card in the light you are going to be shooting in, and then, using the EyeDropper, click on the card in the picture, and use this for your "white" setting.

You don't have the WhiBal card in every shot....just one for a correction reference.

They have tutorials that show how to do this in PhotoShop so I am looking for how-to do this in PI12.

In PhotoShop, they say once you clicked on the WhiBal card in the reference shot, for ever successive picture, you simple click on "repeat previous correction" in the White Balance adjustment process.

I haven't been able to figure out how to do this in PI12. Can someone here give me the secret steps to be able to do this ?

[zforray]

Unfortunately, I am sorry to say, that until PI12 addresses my new camera "raw" images (a tech person responded over a month ago that it was in the service-pack that was in beta - how long nobody would say) and gives me some way to apply white-balance (as well as other settings/changes) to multiple images (e.g. Adobe Bridge), I am going have to [heavy sigh] abandon PI.

I have received absolutely no response to this question, so I can only surmise that PI12 can not apply 1-white balance correction to multiple photos.

Until PI catches up with Adobe in these areas, I don't seem to have a choice in the matter.

[gordonwd]

Until PI catches up with Adobe in these areas, I don't seem to have a choice in the matter.

You mean you want them to take a $100 product and make it a $400 product?

[zforray]

Until PI catches up with Adobe in these areas, I don't seem to have a choice in the matter.

You mean you want them to take a $100 product and make it a $400 product?

So far, PI has pretty much gone toe-to-toe with Photoshop, when it comes to features and abilities and beats them on ease-of-use. In some areas, PI beat Adobe for features and then Adobe caught up. I love PI and Ulead software products and have always defended/promoted them to others.

This time, they have dropped the ball. They were probably too busy being acquired by Intervideo and Corel, to pay attention to product lapses (anyone paying attention to DVD Workshop ? Their forums are blistered with griping about the product being so far behind on features and abilities that other competitors have).

While I dearly love WordPerfect (you can't pay me to use that M$ crap), Corel has notoriously been late with products, updates, features, etc, so I don't know if this latest buyout will be much of an improvement. There are too many product overlaps between Corel and Ulead so I would not be suprised if they dump PI. Obviously they are in love with VideoStudio, (which I also use a lot), since it got top billing for "Works with Vista" certification (more of M$ crap you can't pay me to use - they had to remove features from VS to get the "honor" of working with Vista ).

Also, I wouldn't call PhotoShop a $400 product. I purchased the whole CS2 suite for $389 through the "Software for Educators" process. That is about what it really is worth. I would never spend $1,200 for the CS product.

[Ron P.]

Sorry I didn't reply, but the reason is, that I'm in the same boat as you. I know what the manual states for this, however apparently my camera does not use the right "RAW" format. I could not get this work, so I did not have anything helpful to add..

This is strange because I can open my raw images in PI, but using the manuals method, which sets up the batch, it does not work, The white-balance is not accessible for me to adjust. I have to convert them to TIFF to adjust white-balance. I use a Kodak Easyshare P880, the RAW format is "KDC".

[zforray]

Sorry I didn't reply, but the reason is, that I'm in the same boat as you. I know what the manual states for this, however apparently my camera does not use the right "RAW" format. I could not get this work, so I did not have anything helpful to add..

This is strange because I can open my raw images in PI, but using the manuals method, which sets up the batch, it does not work, The white-balance is not accessible for me to adjust. I have to convert them to TIFF to adjust white-balance. I use a Kodak Easyshare P880, the RAW format is "KDC".

I appreciate the reply. Camera Raw is a complicated comittment by any software manufacture that supports RAW. You must constantly keep up with the camera hardware folks, to get their latest RAW specs, if the camera manufacturer allows such (I hear that some won't let out their specs so you can only use the software that comes with the camera).

Lately, I have been doublely-screwed since the software I used for RAW processing, RawShooter, what purchased by Adobe and thus put out of business and therefore haven't put out any updates to their to software, for new cameras released in the past 3-6 months). My only consolation prize for having purchased software that was then purchased by Adobe, is I get a free copy of their latest product (for which they purchased the RawShooter technology, in the first place, since RawShooter was sooo much better than Adobe stuff) called LightRoom. Unfortunately, LightRoom is such a resource pig (can we say at 768MB of RAM and a P4/AMD equivalent as a minimum), I don't know if I will be able to use it (also requires Windows XP and I still run 2000 on some of my machines).