Re: behaviour of colour wheels

Kevin Wheatley <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.linux.movies
Organization Cinesite (Europe) Ltd.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Stefan Klein wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> a question to anyone who has worked with colour wheels for colour
> correction/grading:
> If you have a perfectly white picture (or an area therefore, to be more
> realistic) and you shift the balance towards whichever colour using the
> colour wheel, is white itself affected? If not, why not?
> The colour balance tool of Photoshop (Image>Adjust>Color Balance...) does
> not affect white, but I suspect this is not the same kind of correction
> colour wheels do, but I don't have access to a tool to try it out.

I sent a responce to the GIMP mailing list only a short while ago,
hopefully you'll get it, but essentially yes, but it depends on the
control you adjust, but differential controls are roughly luminance
preserving but hue is shifted.

Kevin

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