Another fun game- color memory

[berettafan]

https://dialed.gg


Saw this on a photog site I read and it has become pretty popular amongst my household. You are shown a color briefly then you get three sliders that adjust color to try and match it.

My best thus far was a 42 or 43 out of 50. It is VERY hard.

[herr_oberst]

That's a lot of fun and very hard. I love the snarky comments.

(Great - another time suck!)


A big part of my job in pre press (photoshop) was matching color. Calibrating all the tools from the lights in the light booth to the imagesetters for hard proofs and everything in between required constant vigilance by everyone involved.

Very rarely was a color match successful first round. It went through many sets of eyes in-house before the customer ever saw it, and then it would start all over again.

[GH85Carrera]

Colors are a challenge for many people, as they simply see it differently.

I had cataract surgery a month ago. My new lens is, I have to assume clear. My 71 year old right eye is still sharper than the new lens, but it is 6 or 7 CC or points more yellow. If I wink the colors of the world change. My brain is doing fine blending the colors.

For most of my career, I worked in a professional photo lab. Color was very critical, and often subjective. I had made a print from one negative and put it aside. We would get a new employee that wanted to make prints for our clients. I would hand them that negative and have them make me their perfect print. I did not put a time limit or restrict how many times they could adjust the colors.

They would proudly bring what they though was a perfect print, and I would then pull out my reference print. Regularly I saw them deflated as they recognized my print was much better in density and color. Some people just could not do it, and we let them go after a week. All were hired as probationary employees. Some people just took to it and understood right away.

We had some clients want some product shot to have the product match a Pantone color. That was often a real challenge.

[masraum]

first two tries
7.61
8.70

third
9.03

Ah, I didn't get that you go 3 times and then get a score.

[GH85Carrera]

This is a wonderful optical illusion. Your brain just can't accept the color and density of the A and B squares are exactly the same! And yea, A and B are the exact same! I made a print on a half a million dollar digital photo printer. I then cut up the print and put A & B side by side. They are the same.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checker_shadow_illusion

[masraum]

Damn you! I should be working...

apparently, had a brain fart


but back to fighting form

[berettafan]

Funny I seem to really do bad on the purples too.

[berettafan]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

This is a wonderful optical illusion. Your brain just can't accept the color and density of the A and B squares are exactly the same! And yea, A and B are the exact same! I made a print on a half a million dollar digital photo printer. I then cut up the print and put A & B side by side. They are the same.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checker_shadow_illusion

I was trying to print that and go get scissors but the wiki page shows the deconstruction. That is just amazing!

[masraum]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

This is a wonderful optical illusion. Your brain just can't accept the color and density of the A and B squares are exactly the same! And yea, A and B are the exact same! I made a print on a half a million dollar digital photo printer. I then cut up the print and put A & B side by side. They are the same.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checker_shadow_illusion

I love these sorts of optical illusions. I guess I love all sorts, but this type is a particular favorite.

[masraum]

I feel like the key is having accurate/descriptive names for the colors.
I feel like I do the worst when my mental description is "lavender-ish gray" or something like that. I think growing up, the full range of colors made of red and blue were either "purple" or "lavendar", but the range of red-to-blue ratio for those colors is HUGE.

[masraum]

[A930Rocket]

I just knew there was no way they were the same color…

Nope!

[wdfifteen]

The color game is really fun. The first couple of tries I was just trying to understand what the sliders did. I still got a 35. I’m can see me playing this a lot. I can’t wait to see how my artist wife does on it.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

The color game is really fun. The first couple of tries I was just trying to understand what the sliders did. I still got a 35. I’m can see me playing this a lot. I can’t wait to see how my artist wife does on it.

If she works with multicolored media like paints, I would think that she'd do well. She'll see a color and think "that's ______" and then nail it. The problem comes when you only know red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple.

[masraum]

[rattlsnak]

I'm usually pretty good with colors. I tried it three times and all about the same result..