If you are the owner of a Canon T2i Digital SLR, you might be wondering how to set the custom white balance on your camera. The custom white balance is set so that the colors in your photos will display as accurately as possible.http://www.digital-photography-school.com/introduction-to-white-balance White balance takes away any color casts, ensuring that what is white in reality will appear as white in your photos.http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/white-balance.htm

You may have noticed that your pictures often have blue, yellow, or reddish tints to them. This variation occurs because different sources of light, such as fluorescent or tungsten lights, omit different colors.http://www.digital-photography-school.com/introduction-to-white-balance Digital cameras are often unable to distinguish between the different light sources; it can make substantial difference to manually adjust the white balance.http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/white-balance.htm

To set the custom white balance on your Canon T2i DSLR, you will first need take a photograph of something white. You can use a white background, a sheet of paper, or an 18% gray card. Be sure that the white background fully covers the center of the image where the shot metering will take place.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlPszRgHhUM

Access the menu by pressing the menu button located above the upper left corner of your camera screen. Scroll over to the second camera sub-menu; this is the fourth sub-menu and is recognizable as a camera and two dots. Scroll down and select "custom white balance". Select the picture that you just captured and then press set.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlPszRgHhUM

To ensure that you set the white balance correctly, you will need to access the white balance menu while your digital camera is in movie mode. To do this, press the quick control key (key with a Q located inside of a square) and scroll over, using the main control dial, until the word "custom" appears at the bottom of the screen. Make sure that the color on the screen is identical to the color that you just set.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlPszRgHhUM