One of the most important features in any post production graphic application is color management, whether it be to handle white balance, saturation or color shifting. In Artizen all these requirements were closely considered when the Color Balance filter was developed. The Color Balance filter combines powerful functions that enables users to correct virtually any type of color issues your image has or produce virtually any type of color effect you want such black white images. To the right is screen shot of the Color Balance filter which shows all of the options available for fine tuning.

Temperature - This option enables users to adjust the overall look of an image by changing the perceived temperature of a scene or correcting the white balance of your image. Usually blue is considered cool and red hot, but in nature the opposite is true. 

Hue - Typically in the computer world colors are thought of only in RGB, but this isn't the only way to work with color values. The Hue option enables users to adjust all 3 color channels using a single option. Like the Temperature control, Hue is an excellent way of correcting color shifting and white balance.

Saturation - Controls the level of colors in an image, with -100% being a black and white image, 0% being unchanged color level and 100% being colors boosted. To make a monotone image you would set this value to -100% and then adjust the RGB values to achieve the effect you want such as sepia.

Vibrance - Like Saturation, Vibrance controls the color levels of your image but rather than apply this correction to all color levels equally it varies depend on the initial level of the colors. This option can be applied linearly or non-linearly depending on how you want to boost colors. By default Non-Linear is selected.

RGB Adjustments - Similar to the Temp and Hue options, these 3 options enable users to correct color shifts and white balance but on a individual color basis since color shifts don't always affect each color equally.

RGB Highlights & Shadows - Just like working with highlights and shadows in the Exposure filter, these options control the levels of each color channel individually. These options are very useful when you want to adjust the look of blue skies or green grass.

Grayscale - Unlike changing the Saturation value to -100%, this option enables you produce any type of black and white image. You first check this option and then adjust any of the values above and it changes the type of black and white image you will get.

Invert - This option inverts all the color values of each channel.

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