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NOTE: In addition to this tool, the driver provides a lighting menu described in the last section. Lighting can be set with either lighting option. However, lighting choices are mutually exclusive; you cannot apply one type of lighting and then refine it with another. Instead, each time you apply any color balancing, your previous choice is lost, and only the current lighting setting is applied. Click- balance is always the preferred method of applying color balancing to images.
You use this tool to set color balancing for a single image (selected or unselected) or for a set of selected images. This icon provides an addi- tional type of color balancing to those provided on the lighting menu described in the last section. This feature is always the preferred option for color balancing an image.
To activate this feature, first click its checkbox “on” (an X appears in the check box to the left of this option when on). Then, when you move the cursor over an image in any view (CONTACT SHEET, PREVIEW, or TEST SHOT), the cursor changes to an eyedropper cursor.
You then click the eyedropper on an area of the image that is white or light gray (an area that is not overexposed), or click a point that should be white or light gray. White balance values for the entire image are calcu- lated based on averaging a 16 x 16 pixel square around the point at which you have clicked.
After that single click, the eyedropper cursor is no longer available, although the
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