Nikon D3100 2 Fine-Tuning White Balance, Select a white balance option, Fine tune white balance

Fine-Tuning White Balance

White balance can be “fine tuned” to compensate for variations in the color of the light source or to introduce a deliberate color cast into an image. White balance is fine tuned using the White balance option in the shooting menu.

1 Display white balance options.

To display the menus, press the Gbutton. Highlight White balance in the shooting menu and press 2 to display white balance options.

	Gbutton
2 Select a white balance option.
Highlight an option other than Preset
manual and press 2 (if Fluorescent is
selected, highlight a lighting type and press
2). The fine-tuning options shown at right
will be displayed. Fine-tuning is not	Coordinates
available with Preset manual white balance.	Adjustment

3Fine tune white balance.

Use the multi selector to fine-tune white balance.

Increase green

Increase	Increase
blue	amber

Increase magenta

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AWhite Balance Fine Tuning

The colors on the fine-tuning axes are relative, not absolute. For example, moving the cursor to B (blue) when a “warm” setting such as J (incandescent) is selected will make photographs slightly “colder” but will not actually make them blue.

4Save changes and exit.

Press J.

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