Tint Slider
The Tint Slider is a color adjustment control introduced in Photoshop 2025’s Color and Vibrance tool. It enables users to shift the overall color temperature of an image along a warm-to-cool spectrum, making it a straightforward method for addressing color casts that result from various lighting conditions. Common applications include correcting the blue tint cast by overcast daylight or the orange tint produced by tungsten bulbs.
How It Works
The slider operates on a linear axis, with negative values pushing colors toward cooler (blue) tones and positive values shifting toward warmer (orange/yellow) tones. Unlike more granular color grading tools, the Tint Slider applies its adjustment uniformly across the image, making it most effective for global color temperature corrections rather than targeted adjustments to specific color ranges.
Practical Use
Photographers and digital artists typically use the Tint Slider as an initial correction step before applying more detailed color adjustments. It integrates with the broader Color and Vibrance tool, allowing for combined adjustments to saturation and color intensity within the same workflow. Because the adjustment is applied through an adjustment layer, it remains non-destructive and can be modified or removed at any point during editing.
Source Notes
- 2026-04-07: Lightroom Calibration Panel Foundational Color Skin Tones Cinematic · ▶ source
- 2026-04-21: Adobe · ▶ source