White Balance

Different light sources emit light at different color temperatures, measured in Kelvin. Incandescent bulbs produce warm light around 2700K that adds a yellow-orange cast to photos. Daylight varies from warm sunrise tones (3000K) to cool midday light (6500K). Fluorescent lighting often adds a green tint. Cameras attempt to set white balance automatically but frequently get it wrong, especially under mixed lighting conditions or unusual light sources.\n\nInterior photographers encounter white balance challenges in nearly every shoot. A living room lit by warm incandescent lamps near a window admitting cool daylight creates mixed color temperatures in a single frame. The camera's auto white balance picks one temperature, leaving either the window areas looking blue or the lamp-lit areas looking orange. Correct white balance processing addresses these mixed-lighting scenarios to produce a neutral, natural-looking result.\n\nWhite balance correction is typically the first step in any color editing workflow because it affects every other color adjustment that follows. Correcting a yellow cast shifts all colors in the image, which then affects subsequent saturation, contrast, and color grading decisions. Working with incorrect white balance from the start compounds errors throughout the editing process.\n\nMagic Eraser's AI Enhance identifies and corrects white balance issues automatically. The AI detects color casts by analyzing areas that should be neutral (whites, grays, blacks) and adjusting the overall color temperature to produce natural-looking results. This correction is applied as part of the comprehensive enhancement pipeline. Because white balance affects every subsequent color adjustment, getting it right automatically at the start of the enhancement process ensures that all other corrections — saturation, contrast, and color grading — are applied to a properly balanced foundation. This prevents the cascading color errors that often result from attempting to enhance images with uncorrected white balance issues.