Does Dye Transfer mean Paint Transfer?

[Vivaldi]

Does Dye Transfer mean Paint Transfer?

[jshm2]

Depends on context, but usually no.

"Paint transfer" is usually a crime forensics term for when one painted object touches another.

But "Dye transfer" was a process in old technicolour films.

[Vivaldi]

But dye means paint?

[Vivaldi]

If movies are colorized by being dyed (dye transfer), what was the point of 3 strip camera or a color film (eastmancolor)?

[Anonymous]

A paint uses pigments -- non-soluable coloured particles, suspended in a medium and binder. A dye is an aqueous solution. The pigment particles have been dissolved into the medium itself, which allows the pigments to “soak into" the surface it is being applied to, whereas paints on sit on top.