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The red, green, and blue color channels can be adjusted in five levels with the quality option in the
recording menu (p. 50). Any changes made are applied to the live image.
Color
An introduction to color
In photography, red, green, and blue are the pri-
mary colors. The secondary colors, cyan,
magenta, and yellow, are made from combining
the primary colors: cyan = blue + green,
magenta = blue + red, and yellow = red +
green. The primary and secondary colors are
grouped in complementary pairs: red and cyan,
green and magenta, and blue and yellow.
Knowing the complementary colors is very
important in color balancing. If the image has a
specific color cast, either subtracting the color
or adding its complementary color will create a
natural looking image.
Adding or subtracting equal parts of red, green,
and blue have no affect on the color balance.
However, changing two colors equally has the
same affect as the opposite change with one
color; +2 green and +2 red is the same as -2
blue. The greatest change in a specific color
comes by setting the color channels to their
opposite extremes. To make an image as blue
as possible, set the color channels to +2 blue, -
2 red, and -2 green.
RED
GREENBLUE
CYAN
MAGENTA YELLOW
Image is too:Increase Decrease
Red
Green
Blue
Cyan
Yellow
Magenta
Red
Green
Blue
Red
Green
Blue + Green
Blue
Blue + Green
Blue + Red
Blue + Red
Red + Green
Red + Green