Hi! Short answer: It describes the missing color. Where Warmth is (very) basically switching between red and blue, Tint is switching between more and less green. "Less green" is usually known as magenta. :)
Long: White balance cannot be set by only one parameter, a lot of light emitters also a tint toward either green or magenta. See this graph: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Planckian-locus.png Where the temperature tells you where are on the curve, the tint tells you how far you are on the lines that goes out from the curve. Hope that clears it up a bit. Regards, Klaus Post http://www.klauspost.com On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 4:10 AM, Jonathan Musther <[email protected]> wrote: > I've just been doing a little work on the documentation, and have a > question. I'm not quite clear on how the white balance adjustment works. > The warmth I get, but what does the tint slider do? I'm going through the > tools, and am not sure how to describe / explain the tint slider. Obviously > it's not just an added extra, as when I reset to camera white balance it has > a non-zero value. > > Cheers > > Jon > > _______________________________________________ > Rawstudio-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://rawstudio.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rawstudio-dev > > _______________________________________________ Rawstudio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://rawstudio.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rawstudio-dev
