I’m a Fujifilm user and used to set a white balance shift in my jpg settings. I’ve created a profile in PL9 that I wanted to be slightly warmer than the auto WB. I couldn’t find a setting for this. Does PL10 support this?
In the colour tab, but adjustment slightly restricted compared to a RAW image.
No green or magenta, just warm or cool.
PhotoLab can set WB in a preset, but this provides a fixed WB and not a shift.
Not having tested it, I can only presume that the same is the case with (DCP) profiles.
Your best bet would probably be to use either the separate R/G/B Tone Curve adjustments or (PL10 only) the color grading tool. These both can provide a color shift.
The color grading tool is arguably going to be the easier to one to use for accomplishing this, by using the global wheel.
Thank you all for the help. I’ll try out PL10 and might buy the upgrade when on sale.
Would be nice to be able to have a preset that sets WB to e.g. auto plus 100K…
PhotoLab provides neither “auto” WB nor the “plus 100K” shift.
A tone preset with custom r, g and b tone curves is probably the best way to mimic a WB shift. Tread lightly - the tone curve can change contrast and clipping.
Did a quick proof of concept:
From left: untouched, WB by TC, WB by WB
Respective tone curves:
The TC created a stronger effect. Again, this is just a PoC.
I would prefer it specified in mireds 
But seriously, I think it would be too rarely used to justify additional UI complications.
E.g. just recently had a series of photos for which my camera Auto-WB had a lot of variable misses in variable and non-uniform lighting conditions, where each case required individual treatment. Can’t remember any case where adding a constant value would make it quicker, but I usually shoot in very bad lighting conditions, so for some others the case might be different.
So far, DxO has refrained from adding Auto-WB because it was “difficult to make it right” as written in one of the comments out there.
While DxO’s search for perfection has kept us from occasional misses, other apps provide it, knowing that WB is something that needs to be looked at in most cases anyways.
Why not provide a feature that 80% of users can profit from in 80% of their cases?
In general, 80% of users don’t use 80% of the features a software provides.
In some apps, the figures are even higher, but let’s stick to 20/80 for now.
…and we haven’t talked about shifts in tint yet…it would probably blow up this thread beyond the OP’s intentions…but switching to Mired could be worth a feature request indeed.
Used in most WB tools today
Used in analog photography times
Used to estimate necessary shifts Mired - Wikipedia
I understand your motivation and you could add a + smth on green-magenta axis.
But the variability of color rendering is important.
I use always AWB and I am relatively satisfied ; in some cases, eg a museum visit, I look all pictures, estimate the best setting and apply to others photos.
But the environment affects : the same painting on a red background or on a green one needs an little difference in the settings.
And I don’t want to use a colorimeter !
A person under the green foliage has not the same skin color than under the sun ; do we have to make a correction ?
Well, WB shift isn’t directly available and usable as a preset, but can be simulated by tone curve if necessary.
That being said…one is totally free to use WB or not. We know how to change WB, but we need to know the “WHY” to start with.
In documentary and repro photography, WB serves to make colours in a photo look like those of the original scene or object. References are used to get as close to “true” as necessary or mandated.
In other cases, WB can be used to contribute to a “style”, emotion, intention etc..
Therefore and in reference to your question regarding a person under a tree…
- “do we have to adjust WB?”
- Definitely not, and YMMV according to your own answer to “WHY”.
