How a color film reproduces the colors of a scene. Color films are made to be exposed by light of a certain color quality such as daylight or tungsten. Color balance also refers to the reproduction of colors in color prints, which can be altered during the printing process.
The response by film, or by a digital camera's image sensor, to the colors in a scene. In a digital camera, color balance is achieved by setting the white balance to match the scene's primary light source.
The color balance of a film refers to the kind of light under which it will faithfully render color without the need for filters. Most films are daylight-balanced, which means that in daylight, or with a daylight balanced flash, colors will be true. A tungsten-balanced film can be used under certain types of artificial light to give true colors without filters or special printing techniques.
A film's or paper's response to specific colors of light. Films are adjusted for optimum color reproduction in specific color temperatures of light (i.e., tungsten or daylight-balanced)
An adjustment in the color photographic processes ensuring accurate reproduction of a neutral gray scale.
Maintaining the ration of cyan, magenta, and yellow ink during printing. This will keep all color hues consistent and produce a picture with the desired color, one without an unwanted color cast or color bias.
The accuracy in which colors in the photo are able to match those of the orignal scene.
A combination of cyan, magenta and yellow that produces a neutral gray.
how a color film reproduces the colors of a scene; using the wrong lighting can cause the colors to appear washed out or unnatural.
Refers to amounts of process colors that simulate the colors of the original scene or photograph.
The correct combination of black, cyan, magenta and yellow to (1) reproduce a photograph without color cast, (2) produce a neutral gray, or (3) reproduce the colors in the original scene or object.
The perceptual appearance of a color image of film as a function of the ration of exposures of each of these primary color records on the film.
The standard of creating a print that matches the color of the original scene. Controlled by the type of film used, the type of filter used on the camera, the programming of the printer, and the correct chemical balancing of the processors.
An image's overall color bias toward a primary or secondary color. For information about adjusting an image's color balance, click here.
The amount of the three colorants (cyan, magenta, and yellow) that will produce a picture with the desired color and without an unwanted color cast or colors bias.
(1) The manner in which color film reproduces a scene's colors under different types of lighting (daylight or tungsten). (2) The adjustment of colors in making color prints.
The ability to reproduce the colors of a scene to some acceptable standard.
Means of compensating for too much of one color in a photo by adding that color's opposite; for example, if a photo has too much blue, adding a larger percentage of yellow would help achieve a balance.
A printing term used to describe the correct combination of cyan, magenta, yellow and black to accurately produce colors as represented on a color proof.
The correct ratio of cyan, magenta, and yellow ink to produce the desired color
A print quality attribute that refers to the overall color cast of an image. Unbalanced images appear to have an underlying color so that grays do not appear neutral.
Color balance refers to how close a photo resembles the real-life scene.
The overall accuracy with which the colors in a photograph match or are capable of matching those in the original scene.
adjustment in color photographic processes ensuring that a neutral scale of gray tones is reproduced accurately.
1) A film's response to the colors of a scene. Color films are balanced for use with specific light sources. 2) The reproduction of colors in a color print, alterable during printing
In graphics, image processing, and photography, color balance refers to the adjustment of the relative amounts of red, green, and blue primary colors in an image such that neutral gray is reproduced correctly. Color balance changes the overall mixture of colors in an image and is used for generalized color correction.