White balance tool bugged for non-raw files both in develop and photo persona

[rikkarlo]

Hi everyone, I'd like to bring back a bug report that has been totally ignored since 2021, which I think is urgent and deserves to be discussed.

Below you can find two very old threads talking about it.

to summarize:

the white balance tool is not working properly for non-raw files both in the develop persona and in the photo persona (through the adjustment layers).

-what the tool should do: colour pick a pixel and equalize the RGB values to convert the colour of the pixel to a neutral grey (RGB values equal to each other) then apply the same RGB shift to the whole image.

-what the tool really does: in develop persona with a raw file it works properly, when used on tiff, png, jpg (etc.) it does not work.

 

What we observed:

-the sliders in the develop persona with a raw file open are called "temperature" and "tint" and both of them are properly moved automatically when using the white balance tool, in this case it works properly;

-however in the photo persona (white balance adjustment layer) they are called "white balance" and "tint", and only the "white balance" slider move when colour picking the image, we don't see why they should be called and behave differently since it is the same tool that already works properly for raw files in the develop persona.

 

A possible way to fix the bug:

-just apply the same rule applied for raw files (in the develop persona) also to non-raw files (both in the develop persona and photo persona adjustment layers).

kind regards: Riccardo

 

[stokerg]

Hi @rikkarlo,

This issue is still with the Developers to fix and hasn't been forgotten about.

I've updated the report with a link back to this thread, so you will get a notification here, when this has been resolved  

[rikkarlo]

Thank you very much, is it possible to know the level of priority that this issue has?

Because to me this is quite an important one and fairly easy to fix, and I'm quite surprised it is still not solved after all these years!

 

best, Riccardo