Photography

Color & white balance

Terms

8 terms

  • Auto white balance AWB

    Auto white balance (AWB) is the camera function that estimates the color of the light in a scene and corrects colors so neutral objects appear neutral.

  • Camera color profile

    A camera color profile in photography translates a sensor's raw RGB values into standard colors, defining hue, saturation and tone after white balance.

  • Color cast

    A color cast is an unwanted tint that shifts the colors of a whole photograph toward one hue, usually caused by light color or wrong white…

  • Color checker

    A color checker is a reference chart of precisely measured color and gray patches used to set white balance and build accurate camera color profiles.

  • Color gamut

    Color gamut in photography is the range of colors a color space, display or printer can reproduce, which limits how saturated images appear.

  • Kelvin

    Kelvin is the unit used to express color temperature in photography, describing how warm or cool a light source appears and guiding white balance.

  • Tint

    Tint is the white balance control that shifts colors along the green-magenta axis, correcting casts that the Kelvin temperature slider cannot fix.

  • White balance

    White balance in photography is the correction that neutralizes the color of the light source so that neutral objects are rendered without a color cast.