A colorist is an artist who colors comic art reading it for production as a A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ...comic book. Colorists often work in transparent media such as watercolors or airbrush, but modernly colorists often turn to computer assisted tools such as Adobe Photoshop is a bitmap graphics editor (with some text and vector graphics capabilities) developed and published by Adobe Systems. ...Adobe Photoshop. Comic coloring has been taken to new levels through the efforts of artists such as Brian Haberlin.

Colorist can also refer to an artist who paints transparent A cel, short for celluloid, is a transparent sheet on which objects are drawn or painted for animation. ...cels for use in Animation refers to the technique in which each frame of a film or movie is produced individually, whether generated as a computer graphic, or by photographing a drawn image, or by repeatedly making small changes to a model (see claymation and stop motion), and then photographing the result. ...animation production. Since drawings in animation are colored digitally now, colorists no longer need the special training required for painting animation cels.

A Colorist (or Colourist) is also an electronic artist who adjusts colour and mood during the telecine  (http://tig.colorist.org/wiki/index.php/Main-Page) film transfer process or video tape_to_tape color timing process. They have replaced a lot of older style film timers in making colour adjustments to feature films. Most commercials, music videos, serials, m.o.w.'s and feature films have been adjusted by a colorist, sometimes to a very large extent. They match scenes shot at differing times and locations, set the mood, create a style or usually all of the above. A music video or commercial is the most obvious place this can be seen. Often the scene was very bland and boring when shot, but can be morphed into a visually exciting product. It is similar to Photoshop, but at real time on moving images. The equipment needed is usually very expensive (millions of dollars). The Colorist is usually a large part of the television or film post_production process.