noun
- A distortion or shift in the color balance of an image, photograph, or video, typically caused by lighting conditions or camera settings.
Usage: commonly used in photography and videography
verb
- To cause a color distortion or shift in an image, photograph, or video.
Usage: third-person singular present tense of colorcast
Examples
- The photograph has a strong blue colorcast due to the fluorescent lighting.
- Indoor lighting often colorcasts images with a warm yellow tone.
- The photographer corrected the colorcast in post-processing.
- Tungsten bulbs colorcast video footage with an orange hue.
- Without proper white balance, the camera colorcasts all the sunset photos with a magenta tint.
- The colorcast made the skin tones appear unnatural in the portrait.