color balance

noun

1

: a distribution of colors (as in a painting) resulting in a feeling of fitness, satisfaction, and beauty

2

: the chromatic characteristics of the reproduction of gray tones in a color photograph

Word History

First Known Use

1872, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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