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Off Balance

In this article we confirm quantitatively that getting the White Point, hence the White Balance, right is essential to obtaining natural tones out of our captures.  How quickly do colors degrade if the estimated Correlated Color Temperature is off?

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A Just Noticeable Color Difference

While checking some out-of-gamut tones on an xy Chromaticity Diagram I started to wonder how far two tones needed to be in order for an observer to notice a difference.  Were the tones in the yellow and red clusters below discernible or would they be indistinguishable, all being perceived as the same ‘color’?

Figure 1. Samples off an image plotted on a typical xy Chromaticity diagram (black dots).

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