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Color Temperature

Warm or cool the image with temperature and tint controls.

Colour temperature describes light along a warm-to-cool axis, historically tied to black-body radiators measured in kelvin. Daylight sits cooler than tungsten; shade sits cooler still.

Temperature and tint are the everyday photographic controls for that axis. They correct white balance or push a deliberate cast without rebuilding the whole grade.

Color Temperature example
Example

Properties

  • Shadow Temperature

    source color temperature

    Range
    2000 to 10000
    Default
    6500
  • Highlight Temperature

    target color temperature

    Range
    2000 to 10000
    Default
    6500
  • Gamma

    working gamma

    Range
    0.5 to 10
    Default
    2.2

Command line

Requires Rethings Pro. Install the tool from Rethings → Install Command Line Tool…

rethings apply --effect color-temperature --set shadow_temperature=6500 --set highlight_temperature=6500 -i input.jpg -o output.png

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