Colour balance
The adjustment in colour photographic processes ensuring that a neutral scale of gray tones is reproduced accurately.
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Colour balance
How a particular colour film reproduces the colours of a scene. All Colour films are formulated to be exposed by light of a certain colour quality (daylight or tungsten).
Colour Balance - The accuracy with which the colours captured in the image match the original scene.
Colour Correction - The process of correcting or enhancing the colour of an image.
Colour balance
( 1 ) The overall hue of the colour in a colour reproduction. Correct colour balance implies that the colours in the scene are reproduced satisfactorily for the desired effect or realistic duplication.
Colour balance was on the whole very good, if getting a little close to over-saturation for certain colours in direct sunlight (reds).
Colour Balance
A measure of how accurately the colours in a digital image match the original.
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Colour Balance:
How a camera reproduces the colours of a scene. Colour films are made to be exposed by light of a certain colour quality such as daylight or tungsten. Digital cameras do this by setting the white balance or colour temperature.
One of the hardest things about digital imaging is colour balance. If your equipment is not set on the optimum settings, the colours seen on the monitor's screen will definitely not be the ones that are printed on the paper.
I am not sure what the difference is, contrast, colour balance? but I prefer the colour to anything shot on my Canons....go figure. HOWEVER, BEWARE!!! service in Canada is another story!!! ...
I also colour balanced it and output ready for print. When I sharpen an image, I always size it first, and then, just before saving it, I use the standard sharpen. You can use the unsharp mask tool but I tend not to do this all of the time.
These simply darken the image by letting less light through, but don't (or shouldn't, anyway) alter the colour balance in any way.
The colour balance assumes that under normal conditions, that if a white object can be made to look white, then the remaining colours will be accurate too.
If you're shooting print film, the machine that prints your photos from the negative can alter the colour balances. So if you're using a warm up filter, the machine may automatically remove the slight amber cast.
Just as one would in the darkroom, I used Photoshop® to crop images and to adjust exposure, colour balance, and contrast. Blemishes were edited with clone stamps and healing brushes. Some dodging and burning layers were applied.
White Balance is an adjustment in electronic and film imaging that corrects for the colour balance of the lighting - so that white objects appear white, rather than coloured (for example) yellow when lit by tungsten filament lights, ...
The cameras use white as a reference and adjust the colour balance to give as true as possible a white, correcting all the other colours by doing this.
Dichroic Filters: Filters encased in glass for colour printing that are built into an enlarger head. The colour balance of dichroic filters is set by adjusting dials, instead of moving individual filters.
The image has to be translated into something the processor can understand, then focused, captured, colour balanced and finally transferred to the memory chip. This causes delays before the picture can be taken and after it's been taken.
How powerful depends on your level of comfort, but you should at least have software for viewing, cropping, and making basic adjustments to your photos, such as lightening or changing the colour balance.
Information about the colour scale and other relevant data (such as light values, colour saturation, colour balance, contrast etc.) are recorded in the Exif file header and can then be used by P.I.M. compatible printers when printing.
software with the appropriate RAW plug-in, you can convert the RAW image to JPEG, and apply any colour temperature shift. Undo your change and try again, ad infinitum, in as fine an increment as you wish, until you obtain perfect colour balance.
To modify contrast you can usually click anywhere on the line and pull it in any direction. You can usually also select one of the colour channels and modify contrast on just that channel which will affect the colour balance.
 See also: Balance, Image, Camera, Light, Digital
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