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19 • Gray balance and color cast
ColorQuartet 5.0 Pro
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Changing gray balance with the “Gray Balance” window
With the Gray Balance window, you can change the gray balance for any part of the tonal range:
highlights, mid-tones or shadows.
1 • From ColorQuartet’s Color menu, open the Gray Balance window and the feedback
win-
dow.
2 • In the feedback window, click on the point in the image that you want to check. If your goal
is to neutralize the gray balance, click on a point that should be either white or neutral gray.
3 • To neutralize the color of the active reference point, click on Neutralize. The small black cir-
cle will jump to the center of the color wheel, while the white circle will stay in place.
4 • You can also change the gray balance manually by clicking on the desired area of the light-
ness scale and then clicking on the desired new spot on the color wheel.
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• In the Gray Balance window, the point you clicked on is represented on the
color wheel by a small white circle with a smaller black circle inside it and on the
lightness scale by a red bar. You can also see its exact color values in the Densitome-
ter window.
• You can click on other points and check their densitometer readings before
deciding what adjustments to make. To hold a point for future reference,
double-click on it.
• If more than one reference point has been defined, the active point will be
red in the feedback window, and the others will be green. You can activate a
point by clicking on it or by using the computer’s tab key to move from
point to point.
• To delete a reference point, make it active and press the computer’s back-
space key.