DGK Color Tools Premium White Balance Card Set with Premium Lanyard Set of Three Cards

The manufacturer goes to great length to say these are certified for Adobe for Photoshop.But why in the heck would they place a product "sku" sticker on the gray card (the most used for color balance)?Sort of minimizes the certification "feature", in my opinion. On that basis, 3 stars rather than 4 or 5.

As a retired negative wedding photographer, I want spot-on results. But with the digital age I had trouble getting exposure/white balance correct. Yes, the processor could correct for my "slight" errors. I did not appreciate how important white balance was, nor that it can change as easy as exposure. After a couple of tests w/this card. I was amazed at the skin tones I got. I used a drug store type quality (Costco) for convenience & speed and got great exposures! Just think what a higher quality firm (i.e. Dale Labs) can do with my files! Photo correction programs: Just use the "eye-dropper" tool; get color corrections- presto! Short comings: The cards could be larger! The instructions could be more detailed- The makers of this product could benefit from comments here!

Portable, quite useful but can give very confusing results if not used properly. Different degrees Kelvin are indicated, depending on which processing software is used.

The compact Digital Grey Kard Premium is a nice, solid product. The flat toned white, black and grey plastic card stock should last for years, and it comes with a jazzy red lanyard with a snap disconnect. Product works nicely for neutralizing color casts in a scene (IF you remember to put it in the scene. D'oh!)I do wish the instructions were better or they posted a better YouTube video, for those of us without formal Photoshop training. Yes, you can find a few bits of data here and there on the internet, but it is a real fight figuring out how to use the cards with RAW files and curves. It is a breeze with jpegs, of course. Four stars--good product, mediocre instructions.

The three credit card size pieces of plastic work as advertised - they allow instant color correction in PhotoShop. They must be angled correctly or the glare from the flash appears white on both the gray and black cards.They are not large enough for me to use to set custom White Balance in my camera, but they are small enough to easily fit in my shirt pocket without any problems.This product will probably become standard in my portrait photography workflow, but I was a little disappointed when I opened the package - three credit card size pieces of plastic. My guess, and I may well be wrong, is that the packaging costs more than the product.

I bought this set with risk (expensive & don't know if it work ok or not). Turn out I am SO HAPPY with this purchase.I did the card test:Took a picture of this set - Put this unbalanced picture to Photoshop to white balance it - Measure the balanced picture with Photshop sampler tool and find all RGB are equal; R=G=B. That's mean it neutral 100%.I did the camera picture test:Took serveral pictures with different light sets - white balance the pictures with this GreyKard tool. Result color in pix look very much match the real physical subject.So 5 stars for this GreyKard.Some notes, may be you like to read:This little GreyKard may not too great for doing Pre-Blancing for camera internally because it is so small in size. This GreyKard set is great for Post-Blancing using camera software or Photoshop. This is what I like for convenient GreyKard for Post Processing, reason: Post Processing allow me 2 choices (2 sets of image) to pick, First is the original pix; Second is the my white balance touched pix. Sometime the my white balance touched pictures turn the color look so real that make the people in my pictures look like "Living dead in front of a warm burning fire place" so I throw out the white balanced pictures and keep the original AWB pix.That is so good this GreyKard set. If some subjects originally look ugly, it will make it true ugly as original.

The white balance not neutral and the gray does not match white, also not neutral!

The DKG Color Tools white balance card set is simple and to the point. Simply shoot an image with your model holding the cards in a fanned out pattern, and you can either set a custom white balance in your camera, or use that shot in post processing to set the white balance and applying that setting to all similarly lit shots.Easy to use, and accurate.

These are OK but they have to be perpendicular to the camera lense or flash to avoid some reflection. They are a little more flimsy that I expected and they appear to discolour if scratched. I think it's worth the extra money to buy the genuine WhiBal but these are not available at Amazon UK - you need to go to the U.S. site for these @ http://www.amazon.com/GENUINE-WhiBal-Certified-Neutral-Balance/dp/B000ARHJPW - this model has all three colours on the same card and a focus aid.