When working with white balance you need to know about adjusting white balance, preset white balance settings, and manual white balance adjustments. White Balance is an aspect of photography that many digital camera owners don’t understand or use, but it’s something well worth learning about as it can have a real impact upon the shots you take. The reason we adjust white balance is to get the colors in your images as accurate as possible. Different digital cameras have different ways of adjusting white balance so ultimately you’ll need to get out your camera’s manual out to work out the specifics of how to make changes. Many digital cameras have automatic and semi-automatic modes to help you make the adjustments. There are some preset settings on your camera that may include,  auto, tungsten, fluorescent, daylight/sunny, cloudy, flash, and shade. In most cases you can get a pretty accurate result using the preset white balance modes, but some digital cameras allow for manual white balance adjustments also. The range in different temperatures ranges from the very cool light of blue sky through to the very warm light of a candle. We don’t generally notice this difference in temperature because our eyes adjust automatically for it. So unless the temperature of the light is very extreme a white sheet of paper will generally look white to us. However a digital camera doesn’t have the smarts to make these adjustments automatically and sometimes will need us to tell it how to treat different light. So for cooler (blue or green) light you’ll tell the camera to warm things up and in warm light you’ll tell it to cool down.