Overview¶
Introduction¶
Colour Look and Feel is a powerful professional technical color mastering plugin set for popular node based compositing software. It provides compositors access to state-of-the-art numerical methods to cope with any technical color mastering challenge posed. The nodes provided explicitly expose full control of their underlying algorithms and are not designed to hold hands.
The plugins are implemented using the standard OpenFX [1] plugin interface and should work across all compositing software supporting this standard.
Introduction to Chromatic Adaptation¶
Chromatic adaptation serves the primary purpose of maintaining color consistency and preserving artistic intent across various shooting and viewing conditions. It ensures that scenes shot under for example different lighting, with different cameras, or at different locations maintain a cohesive look and feel, enhancing the storytelling process and enabling directors and cinematographers to evoke specific emotions through color grading. By standardizing and adjusting colors throughout the film-making process, this technique guarantees that the final product aligns closely with the filmmakers’ creative vision, regardless of where or how the film is viewed.
White balance is a camera setting that adjusts for the color temperature of the light source to ensure that white objects appear white, effectively neutralizing unwanted color casts caused by varying lighting conditions. On the other hand, chromatic adaptation is a more comprehensive and complex process that involves adjusting the overall color appearance of an image to account for changes in the viewing environment or to achieve a specific creative look. This process considers not just the light source but also the human visual system’s ability to adapt to different lighting conditions, encompassing adjustments to hue, saturation, and brightness across the entire color spectrum. While white balance focuses on simple color correction, chromatic adaptation goes further to maintain the artistic intent and visual consistency of the final product.