Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: "Colorblind" Graphic Artists

CyberStretch opened this issue on Aug 10, 2002 ยท 28 posts


CyberStretch posted Sat, 10 August 2002 at 4:31 PM

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.