Credit: John Wade Fading and colour balance Adobe Lightroom also has a handy option for changing colour temperature of an image after it has been taken.Īn old and faded 1970s colour print is restored with Photoshop levels and colour balance tools. So go to the manual white balance setting in your camera’s menu and reset it accordingly.Īnother option is to use daylight bulbs, which fit into normal lamp holders, but emit light at 5,000°K.
Incandescent light (normal room lighting) is more like 2,700-3,000°K. Daylight and electronic flash are both 5,000°K.
Colour temperature is measured in degrees kelvin. A camera’s auto white balance setting should correct the cast automatically, but you can optimise the result by setting the white balance manually. This is because your camera will be calibrated for shooting in normal daylight, whereas artificial light is warmer in tone. If you copy an old photograph using artificial light then the resulting image might have a yellow/orange colour cast. The negatives or slides are fed into the scanner in strips and scans made of each frame in sequence. A film scanner is used for negatives and transparencies only, usually 35mm, although some models do allow larger sizes.
