Re: [Gimp-docs] Color Temperature

[Julien Hardelin <jhardlin orange fr>]

Thank you for your answer. It's clear now.

Julien


Le 07/07/2018 à 20:56, Liam R. E. Quin a écrit :
> On Sat, 2018-07-07 at 20:25 +0200, Julien Hardelin wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I don't understand why we can change the original temperature in
> > colors/Color Temperature. If this is the color temperature of the
> > light source the image was taken with, it should be a fixed value
> > that can't be changed.
> Historically it is, but the image doesn't necessarily encode that
> information correctly or at all (and you might or might not have
> measured it).
>
> In addition there's often a mix of light sources (a window, a fill-in
> flash, a pile of burning organic fair-trade bamboo wood harvested under
> a full moon)...
>
> but above all else you can get interesting creative effects by changing
> it :)