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▶ I was recently contacted by the creator of the short film “No Such Thing As Color.” In it she features a colorblind musician named Evans Forde as he tries to identify the color of things and explains how colorblindness affects him and how he understands the concept of color and its perception. In some scenes Laura processes the colors to simulate colorblindness for ‘color normal’ viewers of her video. It’s a great 9 minute look at how colorblindness can affect someone and really touches on how it can feel to be colorblind. [...]
Continue reading No Such Thing As Color
Since beginning this site I’ve always found it interesting to see what search queries drive some of the visitors to this site. [...]
Continue reading The grass is always oranger. (Answering a search query)
Since switching over to Windows 7 I hadn’t thought to see whether I could get eyePilot to work. [...]
Continue reading Software for the colorblind: eyePilot works in Windows 7!
While I’d still love to see EyePilot updated and useful since it offers a host of handy features, its creators seem to be content to sit on their duffs ignoring the world while claiming they are working on an update (they are still “working on a Vista compatible version” supposedly… riiiiight). Until they (or more likely someone else) step up to the plate I am not currently aware of any other programs with the features EyePilot sported however that doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of other little helpful programs. [...]
Continue reading Software for the colorblind: Colorblind Assistant
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
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