Color tint
A single color washed across an image while its original light, shadow, and detail still show through.
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What it is
A color tint lays one hue across an image while keeping the light, shadow, and texture underneath readable. A color blend mode is the clean digital recipe: the overlay supplies hue and saturation while the source supplies most of the brightness detail.
A tint can unify mixed photography, mark a selected or disabled state, or give a whole scene a cold, warm, or brand-colored cast. It is blunter than color grading, which can push shadows, midtones, and highlights in different directions.
Gotcha: a strong tint can flatten skin tones, hide status colors, and reduce text contrast. Check the final composite, not just the overlay color, and lower the opacity when important local color needs to survive.
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Apply a uniform color tint using a solid-color layer in color blend mode at about 45 percent opacity. Preserve the source luminance and fine detail, tint both highlights and shadows with the same hue, and keep skin, text, and semantic status colors readable.