Blue tint: I have a Canon T4i that I purchased new when they first came out. After years of good use, while on our once in our lifetime trip to Europe it started having a blue tint on...

RainierView Loc: Eatonville, WA

I have a Canon T4i that I purchased new when they first came out. After years of good use, while on our once in our lifetime trip to Europe it started having a blue tint on all the photos I took on P, Tv, Av, and M settings. But not on any other setting. Unfortunately I had taken dozens of photos with the blue tint before I discovered this. Luckily I also took photos on CA and landscape going back and forth so still got some that came out.

Any idea what could have happened? Did I hit a setting by mistake? It was raining a little, but only a few drops on the camera, or so I thought.

Is there a better way to correct the ones with the blue tint than Picasa 3? That's all I've ever used. I attached one of the photos I took in one of Iceland's thermal areas that I corrected. Not all corrected that well.

Guess it's time to upgrade my Canon.

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Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

White balance setting off (as in not correct)?

Shellback Loc: North of Cheyenne Bottoms Wetlands - Kansas

I notice you have your white balance set to Manual - what temp are you using?

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Shellback wrote:

I notice you have your white balance set to Manual - what temp are you using?

(No need to upgrade because of this, just have the WB set correctly.)

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

The issue is the White Balance setting, that is activated when you shoot in the P / S / A / M modes. You seem to have forgotten or inadvertently set the WB to Tungsten.

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rgrenaderphoto Loc: Hollywood, CA

Hopefully, you shot in RAW and can easily correct.

RainierView Loc: Eatonville, WA

Thanks for all the replies. I have now set WB back to auto and it's back to normal.

I didn't shoot in RAW, so best way to correct?

canon Lee

RainierView wrote:

Thanks for all the replies. I have now set WB back to auto and it's back to normal.

I didn't shoot in RAW, so best way to correct?

Rainier.... Photography is a learning curve, and when we make mistakes it teaches us... Now you know about WB settings... It may be time for you to try out RAW shooting & take advantage of the editing in LR... BTW, in LR it is easy to correct the "blue" issue....

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

RainierView wrote:

Thanks for all the replies. I have now set WB back to auto and it's back to normal.

I didn't shoot in RAW, so best way to correct?

In RAW, you can "flip" the WB to any value in Canon's DPP software. In other software that edits RAW, you can adjust the kelvin temperature or flip the value, if the software mimics the camera's WB options. Once the WB is baked into the JPEG, it can be modified, but without the same level of ease or granularity. But, the WB options shouldn't be the driver to change over to RAW if you don't have the tools nor experience at post processing.

PHRubin Loc: Nashville TN USA

You can edit jpg images as well. What do you use to edit photos? I can change the white balance in Zoombrowser (by Canon) and Picasa. I'm sure there must be a way with DPP4, but I never tried to use it.

More complex editing programs like PhotoShop will also work on jpgs.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

PHRubin wrote:

You can edit jpg images as well. What do you use to edit photos? I can change the white balance in Zoombrowser (by Canon) and Picasa. I'm sure there must be a way with DPP4, but I never tried to use it.

More complex editing programs like PhotoShop will also work on jpgs.

I tried changing the WB in DPP v4 and it was not an option for a JPEG.

LoneRangeFinder Loc: Left field

CHG_CANON wrote:

The issue is the White Balance setting, that is activated when you shoot in the P / S / A / M modes. You seem to have forgotten or inadvertently set the WB to Tungsten.

Nailed it.

Stardust Loc: Central Illinois

Almost all PP software has the simple ability to adjust Color Balance so look for that and although won't be perfect you should be able to get rid of most of your blue cast.

artBob Loc: Near Chicago

Here are STARTS of two solutions. You likely would have to do further adjustments based on how you remember it. Both were done in Photoshop/ The one on the left, using Filters, Camera Raw filter, White Balance set to "Auto." The one on the right uses Filters, Curves, select the gray (middle eye dropper) and click at various area you think would be gray. I finally found that the steam provided the best result.

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RainierView Loc: Eatonville, WA

CHG_CANON wrote:

In RAW, you can "flip" the WB to any value in Canon's DPP software. In other software that edits RAW, you can adjust the kelvin temperature or flip the value, if the software mimics the camera's WB options. Once the WB is baked into the JPEG, it can be modified, but without the same level of ease or granularity. But, the WB options shouldn't be the driver to change over to RAW if you don't have the tools nor experience at post processing.

Thanks. I don't have the tools, but can get them, and have little experience at post processing, but at 71, I'm ready to learn.

I'm sure I can google how and watch videos. Never too old to learn. This should be fun.