Altering colours as they appear in a digital image or in print to ensure that they accurately represent the work depicted.
Changing colours of the pixels in an image, including adjusting brightness, contrast, mid-level grays, hue and saturation, to achieve optimum printed results. It can also refer to the correction of colour in camera through the use of light balancing and colour correction filters or CC filter. In digital cameras this can include adjusting the white balance and other custom functions.
A colour corrected lens will bring most colours to the same focus and thus avoids loss of sharpness due to colour fringes in the image. Specially important in colour photography. The better the lens, the more perfect is usually the degree of colour correction.
A process in which the colouring in a television image is altered or corrected by electronic means.
A process that can occur in digital photography, once the images are transferred to the computer. It is the process of adjusting the amount of different primary colours in an image.
Changing the colours in an image to achieve the printed result you want. Includes adjusting brightness, contrast, mid-level greys, hue and saturation.
Changing the colours of pixels in an image to achieve a desired effect when printed.
To adjust the relationship among the process colours to achieve desirable colours. Sometimes colours are not represented truly and must be corrected to look more authentic to the original object.
The process of adjusting an image on the computer to achieve a desired result when printed, is a tricky business. Getting an exact colour match between a print and the original is very difficult, moreover it is quite often the case that a slavish reproduction of the original does not make for a good print. The skilled colour-retoucher will often work alongside the artist to create a print that is subtly different from the original with its own virtues and distinctive characteristics.
Modifying the colour balance of an image, usually to produce a more accurate representation of the colours in an image. Colour correction compensates for the deficiencies of process colour inks, inaccuracies in a scan or colour separation, or an undesired colour balance in the original image.
The process of adjusting an image to correct for scanner colour imbalances or for the characteristics of the chosen Imagesetter.
The adjustment of colour in an image to match original artwork or a photograph. colour correction is usually done in CMYK colour mode in preparation for process printing.
Manipulation of channels, shades, hues, contrast and levels of individual colours before printing to eliminate any colour casts and imbalances from the original or scanned image.
Adjustments made on a computer in, for example Adobe Photoshop, to bring the reproduction as close to the original as possible.
