Q: I have a client with 4000K LED tape light on top of his cabinets. I need to make it look like 2700K, but I have never dealt with gels or colored lenses. What would you recommend and how would I ...

Back in the age of incandescent lights we only had one color temperature to choose for studio production. Until fairly recently, studio lighting was almost exclusively incandescent. There were a few ...

LEDs offer a new palette of colors to the world of lighting. First, learn these two basic types: soft white and daylight. Soft white refers to warm golden light at 2700 Kelvin, close to the look of ...

Border States Electric, Fargo, N.D., has a handy guide on its Supply Chain Solutions blog by Keeley Mahoney, lighting and energy solutions specialist. In it Mahoney breaks down some of the ...

It’s tough getting the right color temperature for a space, but luckily, the Lighting Doctor, Randall Whitehead, is here to help! See how Whitehead’s advice helped this reader better understand the ...

Light is light, right? Not exactly. The light that comes from the overhead fluorescents at your office is probably nothing like the light that pours from your favorite chandelier at home or that of ...

We’ve noted before that LED lights are, while energy efficient, a bit cool in color, leading to the “my house looks like an operating room” effect. There have been attempts to warm them up (with ...

We've discussed the need for someone to come up with an inexpensive way to drive LEDs from the power line before (We Need Cheap LED Drivers). And to make them dimmable. Smoothly and reliably. And be ...