Originally posted by reivax How Do You White Balance?
In photography and image processing, color balance is the global adjustment of the intensities of the colors (typically red, green, and blue primary colors).
An important goal of this adjustment is to render specific colors – particularly neutral colors – correctly. Hence, the general method is sometimes called gray balance, neutral balance, or
white balance. Color balance changes the overall mixture of colors in an image and is used for color correction. Generalized versions of color balance are used to correct colors other than neutrals or to deliberately change them for effect.
Color balance - Wikipedia
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Given the above I don't concern myself with achieving a "proper" white balance. First I get tone (luminosity) the way I want it in ACR then pass the file on to Photoshop for, what I call, a complete manual color correction. For this I use the very powerful "White Balance" function in Photoshop. This allows me to control the RGB channels based on luminosity (shadow, midtones and highlights). First get rid of any color cast then keep the neutrals neutral. Sometimes, for problem files, I may have to go over to the "Channel Mixer" function but this is high skill stuff and you really need to know what you are doing to use it right. After that I just, push the sliders around in the "White Balance" function until I, subjectively, get the look I want.
Done with "White Balance correction".
Final word of wisdom - only two identical display systems are going to display the same file identically.