Attached Link: What Color? - Shareware

By now I am sure that some of you have seen some of the stuff I have posted in my gallery. To some of you, these may have looked a little "strange" in some almost unnoticeable manner. To others, I am sure that you saw them as I made them. I am partially colorblind and telling different shades of colors sometimes is a problem for me. I have known about my colorblindness since my early teens, but I never consciously think about it; even when I started using Photoshop, Poser, etc. It was the one thing that kept me from pursuing a very promising career in electronics, because I could not distinguish the colored bands on the components. The reason I bring this up is not for sympathy, pity, or any form of self-gratification. During my search for an RGB Color Chart (none of which seem to have a majority of colors plus the name), I found a very useful tool meant for colorblind people that could also be useful to colorsighted people. WhatColor? is a shareware application that allows you to point the cursor at any location on your monitor and it will tell you the hex or decimal code and the name of the color. It has many configurable parameters that seem simple, to me at least, to configure. This begs a question though: I wonder how many people who try to express themselves graphically are, in fact, colorblind? If you would like to share, feel free. Just something else that even us colorblind people never seem to think about.

Red/green for me.

My husband is, and an artist too.

My wife says I am, the way I dress myself. (No offense intended :)

70% color-blind in the left eye, here (nearsighted in the other).

red/green for me too

actually I go the other way - extremely sensitive in blue/yellow There's a moderately well known fantasy artist, Nybor, who is heavily colorblind as well. He does a great deal of work in metallic pencils on black. Stunning stuff :)

About one in seven is the figure I was given back when I failed a flight physical for the Navy. The amount runs from minor to total colorblindness. Bye the bye the Army didn't care.

It's our mothers' fault ! LOL

Oh sure... blame MOM for everything from color blindness to baldness. I suppose it's fair though. Kids must get the messy gene from their father! {grin}

I bombed the Navy flight physical because of color blindness too. The Civilian Medical Examiner said it was only a "Color Deficiency" and gave me my medical certificate so I could get a civilian Private Pilot's Certificate though, so if "Color Deficient" counts, then I'm in.

I couldn't see all the way to the end of the color test book but almost. You could try to use 256 color grey scale. That can look real nice. It's not about what you can see as much as what you can make others see, isn't it ? - TJ

I feel your pain. I'm red/green myself. I use named palettes and ask my wife lots of stupid questions.

I have a link to RGB colors, it gives the name, RGB numbers and color example, I hope this helps. http://eies.njit.edu/~kevin/rgb.txt.html bob

The best scenic artist I ever knew was color blind. He was amazing. Still is, but he's in Museum design now, pays better. I never saw any one use more colors in a sensitive way. I think he went by tonal shade. Emily

Ah, my peeps... Well sort of?!. See "Another Utah moment for DAZ" below --lordbyron

Not exactly colorblind myself, but the type of dyslexia I have is "related" to it... Certain colors in light cause letters on pages to kind of swirl... the end result is actually motion sickness (even though I've never gotten motion sickness from being in a car, boat, plane, what not...), the inability to make out more than 3 letters ahead (the average person apparently reads closer to 20 ahead)... the only way around all this is by wearing special glasses that people tend to mistake for sunglasses (my actual sunglasses are much darker than my reading glasses)

Attached Link: Color Deficiency Information

Thanks for everyone's response. I, too, am red/green (the most prevalent, IIRC). I do not think it is quite as severe as not seeing red/green, as I can distinguish them, so much as the many variouos shades. The green light against white lights in the background can be cumbersome for me. (I just figure that if I do not see red or amber, it is safe to go.) I have also been caught by "backseat drivers" from time to time going through flashing red lights vs flashing amber. After thinking about it more, I did realize that I do tend to use red more than most colors (besides black/white) in a lot of my pictures. The funny thing is I hate green, or maybe just because of the way my eye interprets it. :0) During my search yesterday, I found a couple of sites that explained the condition(s) in detail. The one in the link is exceptionally written and detailed. Another link (http://members.aol.com/nocolorvsn/color.htm) is also interesting and has some tests to help determine the deficiency.

bikermouse, Actually, I wonder about that myself sometimes. Ie, if I create an image the way I see it, post it, I wonder how people who have different ocular conditions see it as well. Having played the "What's this/that/the other color?" game one too many times gets frustrating. But I do wonder at times if "seeing the world in a different light" than most is a blessing or a curse. Unfortunately, I do not think there is a way either side could fully experience the others' point of view.

Henri Matisse and a number of other great artists in the past have stated that form and value (darkness and lightness) was more important than color. Personally, the most powerful imagery I have ever see is in gray scale. Example: Rembrant's and Goya's, etchings and wood block prints.

I was thinking of making a terrain mapping tool in C or as a was to learn python. Thank you All for reminding me that others see the world differently,(literally), I'll keep it in mind when designing it this Fall. Thank you, - TJ (bikermouse)

opps; was = way.

I know that I see things differently from other people. What do mice dream?

Attached Link: http://www.vischeck.com/examples/

Hey there :) If you go to the link you can see examples and download a free tool that will alter a full color "normal" image to simulate red/green color problems I am severely red/green color deficient and I am always asking peopel around me about colors :) Anyway, this tool finally let me show the folks around me what I saw :) Oh, and "what color is that to you" is the favorite tiem killing car trip game of my girls.

sorry i missed this and came in so late, i'm color blind too goodness knows what catagorie the last time i had tests the RAF just confused me with big words LOL but basically i get everything mixed up :o).........Steve

soulhuntre, The link was down or something. - TJ

It's up now, just confirmed it.

got there !! Thanks for the resource!! I think it may be useful, - TJ