Color Temperature Adjustment with Adjustment Brush

[Robert Boire]

I need to adjust the color temperature on part of an image.

First I quickly played around with the color temperature on the entire image and then noted the color temperature I need to be at for the part I am interested in.

Then I painted the relevant part of the image that needs to be adjusted. However the scale for color temperature with the adjustment brush is -100 to 100 (% ?, of what ?). Is there a way to relate this scale to an actual color temperature? Or do I need just to eyeball it?

Robert

[David Eichler]

I suppose you could create a brush preset for that, or take the image into Photoshop and use a photo filter layer.

[John Caldwell]

Or do I need just to eyeball it?

Robert

Almost always this way, unless you have an objectively greyscale target in the adjustment area the could guide your adjustment.

[digitaldog]

Yes, you do this by eyeball. The plus/minus has no direct correlation to a temp value. Nor is that necessary when you consider that any CCT value like 5621K is a range of possible colors, not one defined color. The numbers don't matter; the color appearance does.