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Color Uniformity: Ability of a coating to maintain a uniform or consistent color across its entire surface, particularly during the weathering process.

Flat Color: Any area of a painting that has an unbroken single hue and value.

Daylight Color Film: Color film intended for use with daylight or a light source of similar temperature. The film is color balanced to 5400 k.

Fugitive Colors: The pigments in the 'fugitive' class of paints have the unfortunate characteristic of looking beautiful and unique when first painted but show bad side-effects over time. Side effects includ . . . View Full Definition

Graduated Color: The range of color from light to dark or from warm to cool that results in a gradually changing effect.

Local Color: The actual color of an object being painted, unmodified by light or shadow. (An orange is orange)

Lighting Color: Light may be 'colored' by placing a filter or gelatin in front of a light source.

Hand Coloring: Process of applying color tints, in the form of paint, to a photographic image to create or enhance the color effect.

Custom Color: Special colors made by adding colorant to paint or by intermixing colors, which permits the retailer to match a color selected by the consumer.

Complementary Color: Color of light which, when combined with another specified color in the correct proportions, will form gray or white.