The flexibility of the iPhone platform is allowing for a broad variety of tools to be developed for it which intend to address issues of interest for colorblind people such as myself. While I still don’t own an iPhone (and don’t intend to get one), this is another tool that can identify colors, simulate color blindness and provide color matching and coordination features.
HueVue performs a number of handy functions with an a easy to use interface. [...]
Continue reading Software for the colorblind: HueVue for the iPhone
A friend of mine forwarded this link to me which has some suggestions for colorblind hikers who have trouble identifying blazes on trails. The article outlines one particularly interesting way to help identify the colors of the blazes: carry paint samples to reference the blazes against. It covers how to make these and how to use them as well as some other tips to help colorblind hikers. [...]
Continue reading Suggestions for colorblind hikers
One very important aspect of certain types of photography whether you’re colorblind or not is correct color reproduction. There is a lot that can go in to understanding and properly white balancing but the reality is that today there are many simpler approaches to ensuring correct color that eliminate much of the guesswork or the need for a deep technical understanding of the issue! You don’t need to white balance with a piece of white paper, or anything white at all. [...]
Continue reading Handy tools for the colorblind: white balance references
As with most red-green colorblind people I have trouble with many things. Someone with a more severe deficiency than I may find traffic lights difficult to interpret but even in less critical areas the inability to tell red and green apart reliably can be quite frustrating. If I walked around any office or my house I could easily find many things with indicator lights that are a variety of colors. Most are some combination of red, green and yellow. [...]
Continue reading Seekey allows the colorblind to see colors again
Earlier this week I was contacted by Luke Jefferson, one of the creators of the new Huetility Colorblind Simulator. He let me know about this application he and his colleague have developed that will be available on Saturday, June 6th for the iPhone. This application, their first, is built to simulate the vision of a colorblind person to help users such as photographers, designers and anyone else who works with color understand how the colorblind may view things. [...]
Continue reading Huetility Colorblind Simulator lets you simulate colorblindness on your iPhone
After learning about http://colorfilter.wickline.org/ I wanted to incorporate it in to this site. If you click the image at the top of the right sidebar (just above where it says “Login” if you haven’t logged in) you can view this site with the colors filtered to simulate the various kinds of colorblindness. You can click the icon while viewing any page on this site and it will filter that page. [...]
Continue reading New site feature: see this website with simulated colorblind vision
Although it has been a while since the last post like this I am always interested to find more tools meant to help the colorblind with using their computers or photography in general. I had heard of this program before but didn’t have the time to try it out and post about it until now.
WhatColor is a shareware program, the program you download is a fully functional evaluation copy and an $8 registration is requested if you like and intend to continue using the software. [...]
Continue reading Software for the colorblind: WhatColor
X-rite has a really neat online Farnsworth-Munsell 100 hue test that you can use to test your color vision. I want to be completely clear that I make no guarantees about the accuracy of this test though. I performed it on a new LED backlit LCD which has particularly vivid colors and scored a 107 on it which is considerably better than my performance using the real thing in a proper viewing booth with a calibrated light source (I got an average of 163 under those conditions). [...]
Continue reading Test your color vision with X-rite’s online 100 hue test
Yesterday Joe and I decided to wander downtown Rochester some. Our starting point was the soon to be demolished Midtown Plaza. This fabulously retro and dilapidated place was the first downtown mall in the country, and we both felt we had to take a visit there to see what it was all about. I have to admit while it was interesting to see, for the most part the overall space did nothing for me, photographically speaking. I focused on some details though and got a few shots. [...]
Continue reading Walking downtown (photo gallery)
If you’ve stumbled across this site by accident or because you are curious about how being color blind affects people, you might appreciate getting a sense of how the world appears to a color blind person. There are a number of sites out there that provide demonstrations of color blindness. [...]
Continue reading What does color blindness look like?
