Color balance
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In photography and image processing, color balance is the global adjustment of the intensities of the colors. An important goal of this adjustment is to render specific colors – particularly neutral c
The left half shows the photo as it came from the digital camera. The right half shows the photo adjusted to make a gray surface neutral in the same light.
Example of color balancing
A seascape photograph at Clifton Beach, South Arm, Tasmania, Australia. The white balance has been adjusted towards the warm side for creative effect.
Photograph of a ColorChecker as a reference shot for color balance adjustments
Colour cast
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A colour cast is a tint of a particular colour, usually unwanted, that evenly affects a photographic image in whole or in part.
Color balance
…Bayesian method. Color balancing an image affects not only the neutrals, but other colors as well. An image that is not color balanced is said to have a color cast, as everything in the image appears to have been shifted towards one color. Color balancing may be thought in terms of removing this color cast. Color…
Example of a photo with a uniformly green colour cast due to differential absorption of light before reaching certain depths at sea
The same photo with the colour cast corrected
Blue color cast Compass 1
Blue color cast Compass 2