How to Use color filter in a Sentence

color filter

noun
  • Choose from 28 frames and seven color filters for even more fun effects.
    — Alesandra Dubin, Parents, 20 Mar. 2024
  • On iPhones, adjust the color filter in your settings.
    — ABC News, 21 Feb. 2026
  • The current approach is to add a red-green-blue color filter array over the pixels.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Feb. 2010
  • These color filters—laid out as a grid of red, green, and blue over the image sensor’s pixels—have been around for decades.
    — Gwendolyn Rak, IEEE Spectrum, 24 May 2025
  • These false-color filters reveal a wide variety of features.
    — Big Think, 15 Apr. 2026
  • These are color filters standard in the video production industry.
    — PCMAG, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Just press the Color button to change either the picture profiles or apply a color filter.
    — PC Magazine, 1 Dec. 2025
  • The final battle, which has a red tint in the theatrical release, won’t have the color filter in Snyder’s version.
    — James Grebey, Vulture, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Yet color filters used to signal a warp in reality or an escalation in Max’s behavior feel too on the nose.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 3 June 2026
  • Combined with a color filter over subpixels, this process produces all the wavelengths necessary for color images.
    — Eric Ravenscraft, WIRED, 3 Aug. 2024
  • The camera takes images through one of six color filters, five of which can be loaded into the filter changer at a time, making occasional filter swaps necessary.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 23 June 2025
  • Instead of using color filters, which absorb some of the incoming light, the color splitter sorts light of different colors to specific pixels.
    — Gwendolyn Rak, IEEE Spectrum, 13 Dec. 2023
  • With micro-lenses, the light-receiving area is restricted to the physical dimension of the pixels, and some light is always lost in the pixel’s color filter.
    — Gwendolyn Rak, IEEE Spectrum, 13 Dec. 2023
  • And, each sub-pixel has a red, green, or blue (RGB) color filter, and combining these can effectively create any color.
    — Maren Estrada, BGR, 18 July 2021
  • On the other sheet, ITO is deposited on one side, followed by a color filter array of millions of red, green, and blue dots in a black matrix on the other.
    — Willy Shih, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2024
  • Ever since she was inspired by a fun hair-color filter on Instagram, Chrissy Teigen has been all about making quick and bold hair-color changes via gorgeous wigs.
    — Marci Robin, Allure, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Birds and reptiles evolved a structure in their retinas, called oil droplets, that serve as a color filter but are also hypothesized to act as microlenses, like the mitochondrial bundles.
    — Quanta Magazine, 5 Apr. 2022
  • The red and green layers are phosphorescent, and the blue is fluorescent, which creates white light that is then separated into subpixels using color filters.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 19 Dec. 2023
  • The display also foregoes a color filter, which Asus claimed helped the monitor achieve a color accuracy of Delta E <1.
    — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Usually, this depends on the material of the color filter, but nano-prisms can adjust the spectral response without having to change the color filter materials.
    — Gwendolyn Rak, IEEE Spectrum, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Today’s smartphone displays use OLEDs directly, without color filters.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Additional features like adjustments for contrast and brightness, and color filters for improving text legibility can also be found by selecting the settings button on the lower left of the app.
    — Jess Weatherbed, The Verge, 6 Oct. 2023
  • By removing the color filter, the startup’s image sensor is made three times as sensitive as traditional CMOS sensors.
    — Gwendolyn Rak, IEEE Spectrum, 24 May 2025
  • Removing the color filter makes for astounding black and white images but also increases sharpness and high ISO performance because more light reaches the pixels.
    — Mark Thiessen, National Geographic, 25 Nov. 2020
  • Most digital cameras that capture color use a Bayer color filter array (CFA) over the sensor, which is in simple terms a grid of red, green, and blue pixels that add color to photos.
    — PC Magazine, 20 Nov. 2025
  • This removes the various inefficiencies, color drifts and so on associated with traditional color filter systems.
    — John Archer, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
  • In iOS, go to settings, accessibility, display accommodations, color filters, and then select grayscale.
    — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 29 Nov. 2018
  • House experiments with tons of surreal techniques that make the film feel like a bizarre dream — there are wacky transitions, stylized backdrops, bursts of stop-motion and hand-drawn animation, wild color filters, jarring soundtrack choices, and dizzying camera movements.
    — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 5 June 2026
  • All the basic must-haves are covered—a sturdy metal body, dual LED lights and five magnification levels up to 1,000 times, plus a color filter and coarse and fine focusing knobs on both sides.
    — Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The ability to create subtractive colors between the backlights and the color filters helps lead to higher efficiency for improved brightness, potentially equating to Sony's renowned professional monitors.
    — Ryan Waniata, WIRED, 13 Mar. 2025

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