Questions tagged [color-management]
In digital imaging systems, color management is the controlled conversion between the color representations of various devices, such as image scanners, digital cameras, monitors, TV screens, film printers, computer printers, offset presses, and corresponding media. Source:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_management
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Render with a wider dynamic range in cycles to produce photorealistic looking images
To get images that seem more photorealistic, not only a much wider Dynamic Range is needed, but also having the color information desaturate towards white as it would happen in an overexposed ...
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How to make 3D LUTs and use them in Blender?
Now that I understand a little bit more about how to work with Wide Dynamic Range workflow , scene referred datas and OPS(ASC CDL) node, I'm asking myself how to go further and create my own 3D LUT ...
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How can Blender be augmented to display color critical and accurate results?
If I need to use Blender within a colour-accurate workflow, what do I have to do to set that up (including hardware calibration, etc)?
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What is the the ASC-CDL node?
The color balance node in the compositor can be switched to use the ASC CDL
How is it used?
How is this different from Lift/Gamma/Gain?
How do the Offset, Power, Slope options affect the image?
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How to get accurate colors with Filmic Blender
I'm loving Filmic blender for the wonderful dynamic range. But I am not able to get accurate colors - it always looks little washed out. I understand that it's due to the wider dynamic range of the ...
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Are there significant differences between Filmic shipped with Blender and its development version?
I've just read that Filmic is not completely implemented: https://developer.blender.org/D2659.
Notes:
The results appear to be identical to the original Filmic config, but I left out some ...
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Where do the white lines come from in my composite?
I'm having this issue for years now, and I'm not sure if I am doing something wrong on my end, or if what I would like to achieve - or expect to see - is even possible. My question is about ...
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When to use sRGB and when not to?
I discovered that in my Scene Color Management, Display Device has always been set to sRGB. When I turn it off, the color of a given RGB now seems to match what I see in say Matplotlib. No matter how ...
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Cycles Gradient Texture node: Why "Linear" is not linear on a "default" plane?
I want to render a plane with a linear gradient texture that can be rotated as needed.
I've set up a basic working node network as shown:
I can rotate the gradient using the Mapping Node - > Texture ...
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Using Blender with wider gamut than 709 primaries (like ACES)
There is a similar old unanswered question on this site with some vague comments (ACES workflow in Blender), so I'll ask it differently:
Is it possible to work in blender 2.8 with color spaces that ...
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Is there a way to adapt False Color to be seen for color blind people?
I have severe red/green protonopia and find the red and green to be the same when I use False Color mode to calibrate lighting exposure.
I'm wondering if there is a way to get numeric feedback on ...
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How must I adapt my workflow to work with Scene Referred Data?
I just took the red pill and started watching the real world, in fact the CG real world. I've understood that the default sRGB view workflow is bad.
I'm using the color management LUT bassam-test ...
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Why would I use the "Film Emulation" feature?
From what I can tell, this setting alters the exposure and other parameters to simulate a specific film, however why is this any better than exporting a file format that supports high dynamic range (<...
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Repurposing vector (speed) render layer for optical flow
I'm trying to compute optic flow in my Blender scene using the "speed" render layer (appears as "vector" in the outliner window). This render layer is supposed to return the speed and direction of ...
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HSV to RGB conversion
let's take the hsv color 0.4, 0.8, 1.0
everywhere I looked this converted to Hex 33FF85 - even in Blender
when I convert it to RGB(using python colorsys, python ...
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