How to Use the White Balance Tool in Snapseed? – Beginners Tutorial
Want to fix the colors in your photos effortlessly? In this beginner-friendly tutorial, I’ll show you how to use the White Balance tool in Snapseed to correct color tones and achieve a natural, professional look. Whether your image looks too warm, cool, or off-balance, this simple tool can make a huge difference. Perfect for anyone looking to enhance their mobile photo editing skills. Let’s get started and transform your photos with just a few taps!
These videos are from our Snapseed Photo Editing Course.
Video Summary
In this tutorial, the instructor explains the White Balance panel in Snapseed. White balance is used to correct “color casts”—unnatural tints caused by different types of lighting (like yellowish indoor lights or blueish shade). The goal is to make the colors in the photo look neutral and true to life.
Key Concepts & Tools
- Temperature: Adjusts the “warmth” or “coolness” of an image. Moving the slider right adds yellow (warm), and moving it left adds blue (cool).
- Tint: Adjusts the balance between green and magenta (reddish) hues.
- Auto White Balance (AWB): The quickest method where Snapseed’s algorithm automatically identifies a neutral gray point to balance the colors.
- The Eyedropper (Picker): A manual tool where you tell Snapseed what part of the photo is supposed to be neutral gray. Snapseed then shifts all other colors based on that reference point.
Time Stamps
- 0:00 – Introduction to the White Balance panel.
- 1:11 – Why White Balance matters: Correcting lighting-based color issues.
- 2:10 – Demonstration Prep: Deliberately messing up the photo’s warmth to show how to fix it.
- 2:48 – Manual Settings: Exploring Temperature and Tint sliders.
- 4:09 – The Eyedropper Tool: Explaining how to provide a “reference point” for neutral colors.
- 4:52 – 50% Gray Principle: Why finding a gray area (like clouds or a gray card) is key to accurate color.
- 5:45 – Professional Tip: Portrait photographers often use physical “gray cards” for this exact purpose.
- 7:44 – Auto White Balance: Showing how the “AWB” button does the work for you in one click.
- 8:17 – Conclusion: Why auto-correction is usually sufficient for most shots.
