Hi everyone, in this video we're going to take this image...

and bam, we're going to look at the Color Auto feature...

and if you're looking at the length of this video, and you're like...

"Is he just going to click the Auto?," that's basically what I'm going to do...

but I'm also going to explain what it does...

we're also going to look at the differences...

sometimes between JPGs and raw files, Temperature versus Kelvin...

we'll look at the drop downs in these.

Some images have lots of presets, some of them don't...

some useful information for those people new to white balance...

all right, let's jump in.

All right, before we go any further a little side note...

I went to another car show on the weekend...

that's why my Lightroom is going to be full of cars, and you'll be like...

"You didn't have cars in the last video"...

so yeah, they'll be here, I might throw them in later in the course...

there might be too many cars in this video already...

but the cool thing about the weekend was...

well, it sucked because it was raining, but raindrops are really cool to edit...

plain car, oh, nice car, wanted those people to get out of the way, anyway.

So what we're going to do in this video is...

we're going to bring it in, we're going to ignore the cars and bring in two images...

so 'P', bring up photos, let's add those photos...

and we've got a new folder in your Exercise Files called 04 Color Corrections...

let's open that up and bring in these two images, Color 01 and Color 02...

and let's bring them both in, we're going to work on Color 01...

and yes, already throwing one of the images in, whoops...

but it's a good example here.

So let's open up this one, 'D' to make it nice and big...

now the auto feature is pretty easy to use...

so it's under 'Color', sorry, it's under 'Edit'...

and then I like to remember to twirl these down...

so I can just see color on its own...

and then, as shot is just as you shot it with your camera...

the white balance you set there, and you have an option that says Auto...

so click on 'Auto', and then let's turn the eyeball on and off...

and the computer has decided that it needs to be a tiny bit warmer...

a little bit, just +1, and it's been -15 for the tint...

so let's just go and push it a little bit to the green.

So do I like it? On, off, on, off, I find all of the awesome stuff...

that Lightroom does in terms of the automatic stuff...

I love color, and the white balance is one of those things...

where, I don't know if it's me being like a squishy brain human and going...

"Hey, computer, what do you know?"...

I always go, I always click Auto just to see what it thinks...

why is it judging my in-camera white balance settings...

which is more often set to Auto, anyway...

but I do it, I check what it is, and I'm like, "Hmm"...

it kind of informs my decision, before I start dragging it, I go...

okay, I'm going to make it a little bit warmer...

and I'm going to make it a little bit further this way, too far...

and you can see, it's changed to Custom.

So often, start with Auto, and it just gives me a kind of...

you know, an indication of where I'm going to go, or where I might should go...

might should go?, there you go...

you understand what I mean, good starting point.

Now the other thing I want to mention in here...

is that we've got Temperature, and this one here, like default...

you know, the auto setting said, all right, you be +3...

let's open that other image, I'm going to use my arrow key and go back one...

just to toggle to the other image, or, remember, hit 'G'...

and just double click the one you want to open.

So the difference between a JPG, which is this image here...

using my arrow keys, the right arrow, left, right...

so the difference between JPGs and raw files often is...

you'll get just different options over here...

can you see, this one is shot in what's called Kelvin...

so it's giving me my Kelvin settings...

it's more science-ey, Kelvin is like the unit of measurement for temperature...

and the camera, or at least the raw file has the Kelvin information...

so gives it to you here, and if you do know a little bit about light...

and you know what like daylight Kelvin is, that's right in the middle there...

it doesn't really matter, it doesn't change it...

but it's going to be, it might be confusing if you open up some images...

and like this one here, you're given just numbers...

because it doesn't know what the Kelvin was...

so it just goes +3 of whatever it was...

whereas this one here, because it's a raw file...

it's actually recording a lot more of the temperature information...

including what Kelvin it was set to, as shot...

I can always, I can go over it just like the other one, but there you go...

that's why you'll have two.

All right, let's see what Auto does here, before, after...

warms it up, moves the Kelvin up...

One thing you will do as well is that...

you won't often start with Color and go to Auto, you do Tone first.

So I'm going to go back to that other image using my right arrow key...

and what I'll do, it doesn't matter which order you do it in...

but you'll probably find that it's better to go...

let's say I want to do Auto for, Auto does light...

and it does a tiny bit of color, but not temperature, watch this...

if I click it, did something for vibrance...

I don't know why, it does everything in Light...

so let's undo that, you see, if I hit Auto, we've looked at this earlier...

with Auto it goes and adjusts our light sliders...

it does a little bit to vibrance, which is cool...

it doesn't touch Tint and Temperature, you do that separately...

so what you can do is, I'm going to reset it all...

who remembers how to reset everything, go right back to the beginning?

That's right, 'Command R' on a Mac, 'Ctrl R' on a PC, just reset everything...

and what you can do is you can just open up an image...

go Auto...

Auto, and that might be enough...

you can see here, before, after, pretty good result.

One other thing I want to show you is...

here, on this JPG image...

remember, temperature is just done in the numbers here...

the other thing is the drop down menu here is a little a lot shorter...

you've got As Shot and Auto...

and Custom is just when you start dragging on your own...

but let's have a look back at this car here...

and let's have a look at the drop down...

remember, this is a raw image, and you can see here...

there's a lot more options in here...

it's just because there is Kelvin information...

it's going to give you options to say...

"Hey, let's make this a cloudy shot"...

can you see here, it's basically balancing out a cloudy shot...

and kind of raising the Kelvin up.

So I'm going to hover above them, the editor will zoom in...

so you can see that Kelvin number changing...

you can see, it drops all the way down...

to kind of counteract what would be done in Tungsten...

Tungsten lights, really kind of orange-ey lights...

so to counteract that they'll make it bluer, that's why this image is blue...

so that's what it's doing...

if you've shot cloudy it's going to raise the Kelvin to make it warmer...

to counteract the cloudiness...

in the daylight here as well, like these are just...

yeah, just work your way through them...

a little helpful use, or a little shortcut for them...

is let's say that you're looking at this, you're like...

"Does it look any different?," I don't know...

because it's hard to go back to as shot, cloudy, as shot, cloudy.

You can actually hold down the Option key...

let's get one that's more obvious, like yeah, Tungsten...

so hold down the Option key and it toggles back...

can you see - the editor will zoom in again, thanks Jason.

- to the auto versus-- let's see what you can see there...

let's go back to As Shot...

so that's the before, and then Tungsten...

if I hover above it and hit the Option key...

it just toggles it back and forth...

man, I made a meal of that, what do you reckon?

So have a look through these...

and if you want to see what it looked like before...

just hold the 'Option' key on a Mac, 'Alt' key on a PC...

and it just toggles between the two, that's handy.

You can kind of see what it's doing over here...

in terms of the tint and temperature as well, which is fun.

All right, that is it, automatic features, some of the drop downs...

why JPGs are different than raw files, and Auto can be awesome...

especially as a starting point, before you get all fussy...

and just drag it one or two more points along, take that, computer...

all right, that is it, I will see you in the next video.