Scopes

Most vectorscopes have a line that represents the color of skin. When balancing, use that line to get the skin tones right. The skin-tone line lies between red and yellow: All skin tones, regardless of race, fall somewhere along (or...

When balancing a shot, the RGB parade is your friend. Getting the shadows region to be relatively even works wonders. Balancing the highlights helps too, but in most cases just the shadows is enough to fix a bad white balance....