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slightly reformatted the answer, so it now delivers the answer first, then proves it.
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Setting a lower color temperature (as in: less Kelvin) results in a blue picture, while setting a higher temperature enhances the amber-tones. Setting a negative tint will make the picture greenish, while a positive set tint will create a magenta-looking picture.

I can offer two examples to prove that: a look at Lightroom's White Balance sliders and a screencapture of a hands-on experiment.


Lightroom's sliders - as an example for almost all RAW editors I know of - show the estimated impact of their movement:

Screenshot from Lightroom's White balance tool

Take the Temp-slider to the left and it will get blueish, take the Tint-slider to the right and it will become magenta-ish, etc.p.p.. Note that the yellow tint is not that accurate: it actually should be coloured in amber.


For visualisation of the effect, I made a screencapture while adjusting bith sliders in Capture One. Although the colours are quite blocky, the GIF visualizes what's what.

Capture One's Kelvin-slider works the same way as Lightroom's Temp, and Tint...well, it is the same as in Lightroom. I also included an RGB histogram - and the levels for each channel.

For everyone interested: The picture you see was taken in a studio with Hensel flashes (and softboxes), a white backdrop, and my 5D Mk III - the colorchecker was just lying around there, so why not use it? In this case, it even created some additional privacy for the model. ;-)

Screencapture-screenshot from Phase One's Capture One

Click the image to see the full-version of GIF animation (13.2MB) or alternatively, link to the MP4 version

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