Why does the color change?
 

Someone just post pics of their car in Velvet Green, paint mixed to sample from their 67 912. It was a 66-67 color. My 69 is Velvet Green, special order.

When I either right click and save as or drag and drop to desktop, both times the color is less vibrant. Here's a screen shot, web browser with pics on left and desktop pics on right.

How and why does that happen?

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What are you using to view the files on the desktop? Could be the viewing software is reading EXIF data about exposure, etc. adn modifying the image

Using Preview Steve. I'll open in Photoshop at lunch and see what happens.

Color profiles.

Cameras have theirs, software can use it but often defaults to its own.

Reading colors off a screen is highly unreliable.

What is "right click?"

Denis, on a Mac you can push the right side of the mouse button which pops up a menu allowing you to do stuff. Here I right clicked, released and then hit the key commands for a custom size screenshot.



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PS also reduces vibrancy.

I was sort of kidding, did not know that you could do that on a Mac. Thanks

That I know so well from my design days.

And his new pics are much bluer than they should be which I am sure is his camera and not the actual color which has more green in it which you could see from earlier posts.

Only other Velvet Green car I've seen, he replied to my Early S thread on the subject.

That looks more like "Turkey Green" to my eyes. My 69 912 was originally "Golden Green" and it looks like the zinc chromate stuff you'd find in a WWII airplane. If the car in the original post is supposed to be "Velvet Green" by Porsche nomenclature, it looks nothing like "Velvet Green" in VW nomenclature during the same time period, such as on a Type II transporter.

Here are some 912 colors:



912 Colors - 912 Registry

Check to see if all of them are full RGB images. If Photoshop or what ever viewer you are using is changing them to 256 color to make them smaller or CMYK you will for sure get large color shifts.

Make sure everything is set of RGB.

Golden Green is a great color!

Porsche, VW and BMW all used the color name Velvet Green in the 60s. All were fairly different from each other. I had a 63 VW Doublecab truck in high school that was very close.

Here's a customer's Turkey Green, fresh out of paint. Below are pics of the inside of my headlight bucket and Early S poster's original Velvet Green which is very close to mine. It's an interesting color, essentially green with some blue in it.


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I had to have some of the PPG paint mixed up. I think it's very close. Might shoot a decklid and a card with it this weekend to see what it looks like against the little bit of original paint I have on the car.


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It's Alllll about the profiles.