Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Webcams can be incredibly tricky to make look good as a streamer, you need to understand lighting, white balance, exposure, and so much more, so let's show you how to make your webcam quality look pro for streaming!
That is why this video covers everything you need to know from your webcam's base settings, all the way to the final stages of color correction and adding a LUT.
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How To Add A Webcam To Streamlabs OBS and OBS
To add our webcam to Streamlabs OBS or OBS, go-to sources, click add source, add a new video source, and select your webcam from the list, you have your webcam, now you need to change the settings.
We need to turn off all of the automatic settings. Right-click the camera source, properties, change the default to custom, now you can edit the resolution to be 1920 by 1080, OR 720. If you plan to crop in on your camera or zoom in like we want to do later in this video, 1080 is probably the resolution you want, but it is more intensive on your PC so I do recommend 720p for most people.
Next is FPS, I noticed some lag issues with I set this to highest but they went away if I set it to match the source, OR set it to 30.
Colour space you’ll want 709, and finally, the color range is set to full. This will give you your base webcam inside Streamlabs OBS or OBS.
🕘Timestamps:
0:00 Webcam Before and After
0:40 Thank you to members
0:55 How to add a webcam to OBS or Streamlabs
1:43 How to change Webcam settings in OBS
1:45 How to change Webcam resolution in OBS
2:17 How To change webcam frame rate or FPS in OBS
2:44 How To turn off Automatic Webcam Settings in OBS
2:55 How to change Webcam Exposure settings in OBS
3:51 Why ALL Cameras Look Terrible without lighting
4:44 Why changing settings with bad lighting make a worse image
5:00 How to light a webcam for Streaming
5:32 What Budget Lights Should You Buy As A Beginner?
6:00 Best Light placement for Streamers and Content Creators
7:00 How to set proper exposure for a webcam
7:50 How to set white balance on a webcam
9:00 Where to change White Balance Settings In OBS
9:05 How to frame your webcam properly
10:29 How to setup a nice background for Streaming
10:40 How to blur your background with a webcam
11:10 How to add depth from your background with light
12:17 How to deal with overexposed background lighting
13:14 Should you use Digital Blur through Software?
13:34 How to add Colour Correction to a webcam in OBS
14:40 How to add a LUT to your Webcam in OBS
15:28 How to use a Green Screen In OBS
16:10 What backgrounds should you use for Streaming in OBS
How To Change White Balance Inside Streamlabs OBS or OBS
Essentially different lights produce different color temperatures, you need to set your webcam or any camera to match that white balance so that you get accurate colors.
Normally set my key light up so that it is producing daylight or white color of around 4500 kelvin, and I will set my white balance to something similar in my camera. For now, there are charts you can use to help but essentially the mistake is that people don’t set this manually meaning the webcams and camera often try to adjust it automatically and the camera gets it VERY wrong!
It’s why sometimes you are super orange or super pale, the webcam has gone “This looks about 3600 kelvin!” when in reality it might be 5500 kelvin but it thinks 3600 because it saw an orange poster and thought it was white. To adjust this manually, you’ll go into your webcam settings and find it here, make sure automatic is off, and drag it around till you find the right balance for you.
The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and Gaming Careers in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Wild4games and Nutty.
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Webcams can be incredibly tricky to make look good as a streamer, you need to understand lighting, white balance, exposure, and so much more, so let's show you how to make your webcam quality look pro for streaming!
That is why this video covers everything you need to know from your webcam's base settings, all the way to the final stages of color correction and adding a LUT.
👑 Check out all the gear I mention and use:
kit.co/Eljayem
👑 Check out Eljay Live Right now:
bit.ly/eljayemtwitch
🔴 Download FREE Animated Overlays From Our DISCORD:
bit.ly/FREEStreamOverlays
How To Add A Webcam To Streamlabs OBS and OBS
To add our webcam to Streamlabs OBS or OBS, go-to sources, click add source, add a new video source, and select your webcam from the list, you have your webcam, now you need to change the settings.
We need to turn off all of the automatic settings. Right-click the camera source, properties, change the default to custom, now you can edit the resolution to be 1920 by 1080, OR 720. If you plan to crop in on your camera or zoom in like we want to do later in this video, 1080 is probably the resolution you want, but it is more intensive on your PC so I do recommend 720p for most people.
Next is FPS, I noticed some lag issues with I set this to highest but they went away if I set it to match the source, OR set it to 30.
Colour space you’ll want 709, and finally, the color range is set to full. This will give you your base webcam inside Streamlabs OBS or OBS.
🕘Timestamps:
0:00 Webcam Before and After
0:40 Thank you to members
0:55 How to add a webcam to OBS or Streamlabs
1:43 How to change Webcam settings in OBS
1:45 How to change Webcam resolution in OBS
2:17 How To change webcam frame rate or FPS in OBS
2:44 How To turn off Automatic Webcam Settings in OBS
2:55 How to change Webcam Exposure settings in OBS
3:51 Why ALL Cameras Look Terrible without lighting
4:44 Why changing settings with bad lighting make a worse image
5:00 How to light a webcam for Streaming
5:32 What Budget Lights Should You Buy As A Beginner?
6:00 Best Light placement for Streamers and Content Creators
7:00 How to set proper exposure for a webcam
7:50 How to set white balance on a webcam
9:00 Where to change White Balance Settings In OBS
9:05 How to frame your webcam properly
10:29 How to setup a nice background for Streaming
10:40 How to blur your background with a webcam
11:10 How to add depth from your background with light
12:17 How to deal with overexposed background lighting
13:14 Should you use Digital Blur through Software?
13:34 How to add Colour Correction to a webcam in OBS
14:40 How to add a LUT to your Webcam in OBS
15:28 How to use a Green Screen In OBS
16:10 What backgrounds should you use for Streaming in OBS
How To Change White Balance Inside Streamlabs OBS or OBS
Essentially different lights produce different color temperatures, you need to set your webcam or any camera to match that white balance so that you get accurate colors.
Normally set my key light up so that it is producing daylight or white color of around 4500 kelvin, and I will set my white balance to something similar in my camera. For now, there are charts you can use to help but essentially the mistake is that people don’t set this manually meaning the webcams and camera often try to adjust it automatically and the camera gets it VERY wrong!
It’s why sometimes you are super orange or super pale, the webcam has gone “This looks about 3600 kelvin!” when in reality it might be 5500 kelvin but it thinks 3600 because it saw an orange poster and thought it was white. To adjust this manually, you’ll go into your webcam settings and find it here, make sure automatic is off, and drag it around till you find the right balance for you.
The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and Gaming Careers in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Wild4games and Nutty.
Free LUTS For Streaming And Video:
premiumbeat.com/blog/29-free-luts-for-video
🎬Watch our most recent videos:
bit.ly/RecentStreamVids
🎬 Playlists You Might Like:
bit.ly/StreamGuidesPlaylist
--------------------------------SOCIAL--------------------------------
🐦Go force Eljay to use Twitter: bit.ly/EljaysTweets
#twitch #growth #guide
