ABSTRACT
Color is both a powerful artistic and storytelling tool and a complex technical subject. Value is how light or dark a color is and saturation is how “colorful” it is; in video commonly call it chroma saturation or just chroma. A desaturated color in everyday terms might be called a pastel. Color temperature and green are two different aspects of light, they have to be measured separately. Color meters will have two scales and output two measurements: one in degrees Kelvin and the other in Color Compensation units. Color meters can be a bit expensive but they are valuable tools for getting proper color balance. The term gel refers to color material that is placed over lights, windows, or other sources in the scene. Conversion gels convert daylight to tungsten or tungsten to daylight balance. Light balancing gels are for warming or cooling the color temperature of the sources, which means they affect lights on the blue-orange axis.
