Frequent Question: How Do I Color Correct in Lightroom?

To start off color correcting an image in Lightroom’s Develop module, open the Basic panel and click the White Balance Selector which is the eyedropper in the top left corner of the panel. Deselect the Auto Dismiss checkbox on the toolbar so the tool remains visible.

How do you color correct a picture?

If your photo has a color cast you want to correct, when you click on the Auto button you may notice that Curves layer adjusts the contrast instead of white balance. To tweak this, hold the Alt/Option key and click on the Auto button. This will bring up the Auto Color Correction options.

Should you color correct photos?

So – if you are a pro (as in get paid for taking photos), you’re main product is prints and you don’t sell or care about digital versions (point 1) and you don’t care about reprints (point 2) and you take boring pictures (point 3) then you should absolutely let the lab color correct your pictures.