If you know the Kelvin of your source light as well as the range you are trying to get to, we can calculate the exact Gel or combination of Gels which will get you the closest to your preferred Colour Temperature. This brings it down to 3800K which is a much more comfortable colour, although you can certainly go warmer than this by using stronger Gels or layering multiple sheets of Gel. The photo on the left shows the light shining as it would normally, and the photo on the right shows the light with a sheet of 205 Half C.T. The above photos show the same Cool White LED rated at 6500K. This will bring the light output to just under 2700K, and is one of our most popular Gels for this exact purpose.
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To bring this down to a more comfortable temperature closer to 2700K, you’d need a Gel like the 204 Full C.T. As you can see in the photo below, this is a very harsh, almost blue-tinted white, and not a great relaxing colour for a home environment. These Gels are available in relation to the standard Full CT Orange as a half strength, quarter and one eighth strength CT Orange, and or extremely cold Colour Temperatures up to Double CT Orange.Ī fairly common Cool White LED is the GU10 base 3W Lamp from CED which has a colour temperature of around 6500K. Orange) and Colour Temperature Straw Gels (C.T. The most popular for warming up Cool White lights are the Colour Temperature Orange (C.T. These are designed specifically for warming up or cooling down the Colour Temperature of the light and are available in various strengths. If you are looking to warm up LED Lighting then Rosco’s selection of specialist Colour Temperature Lighting Gels are perfect. For applications where the heat of the light itself is an issue (theatre lights can be upwards of 1000 Watt and can get very hot indeed!) then Supergel is the way to go, otherwise if the light itself doesn’t give off heat (as LEDs shouldn’t) then E-Colour+ would be suitable. Lighting Gel from Rosco is available in two main types the more cost effective E-Colour+ range which is a Surface Coated Polyester Film, and the more durable Supergel range which is a Body-Coloured Polycarbonate. Obviously there have been advances and changes within the industry but Lighting Gel remains very popular to this day due to its cost effectiveness and ease of use. Before mechanical moving head lights and digital based, colour-changing LEDs the best way to get a red light was to put a red Lighting Gel in front of a white light.
Lighting Gel is a thin, non-adhesive, film-like material used traditionally in theatres to colour, diffuse, darken or otherwise affect the output of their theatre lights. In situations where it’s not easy or cost effective to replace the actual LEDs, a great alternative can be to use Lighting Gel to alter the temperature of your current lights. Although exactly how these exact figures translate to an indoors environment with other ambient or natural light sources can be a little subjective, they are a decent measurement for comparison.Īdvances in LED technology have allowed more recent LEDs to become available in various preset Colour Temperatures, including a generic ‘Warm White’ which tends to be somewhere around the 2700K mark. This is a scale which ranges from lower numbers at the orange end of the spectrum to higher numbers at the blue end, with standard neutral white light being somewhere around 4500K. White light is measurable in terms of Colour Temperature and measured in Kelvin.
Please note: Images on this page are intended to illustrate colour temperature, computer monitors can vary wildly in actual colour displayed, please do not attempt to colour match the temperature of your lights using the images on this page. Quite simply, for most people, standard LED lights are too harsh.
It’s also a common complaint that cooler white LED lights have too much glare, we’ve also had customers whose newly fitted kitchen LED ceiling lights are too bright for them. We’ve heard these sometimes described as like a hospital or dentist waiting room, and not exactly a relaxing or comfortable home environment. However while traditional Halogen bulbs are primarily a warm, comforting, almost amber shade of white, some Cool White LEDs have a more clinical, almost blue feel. Over time more and more traditional style lamps and house lights are being replaced with LED equivalents which are far more energy efficient with a longer lifespan.
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