How do tint/temperature sliders relate to a camera’s magenta-green and blue-amber white balance grid?

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Some editing tools present white balance as two sliders: Temperature and Tint. Many cameras instead show a 2D white balance shift grid with axes for blue↔amber and green↔magenta. How do these controls correspond to each other, and are they effectively the same type of adjustment?

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Tint is the green-magenta axis, temperature is the blue-amber axis.

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They’re the same two white-balance correction axes shown in different interfaces.

  • Temperature corresponds to the blue ↔ amber axis.

    • Lower temperature / moving left gives a bluer image.
    • Higher temperature / moving right gives a more amber/warm image.
  • Tint corresponds to the green ↔ magenta axis.

    • Negative tint gives a greener image.
    • Positive tint gives a more magenta image.

So a camera’s 2D WB shift grid is basically the same concept as the two sliders in Photoshop/Lightroom-style tools: one axis controls blue-amber, the other controls green-magenta, and the axes are perpendicular to each other.

The main practical difference is interface and range. In-camera WB shift grids usually provide a relatively limited correction range intended for fine white-balance adjustment, while raw editors often allow a wider range and may label the blue-amber axis as color temperature in Kelvin-related terms.

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