re: #367 Political Atheist

I think I did something wrong. Or my color perception is really specialized. Show me glowing iron, gold, or brick and I can tell you more or less what temperature it is, say from 1100 up through about 2200. I can tell you within a GIA color grade or two a diamond is.

But I about flunked that test.

It wasn’t that easy. As gdfrank pointed out, the colors’ hue seem to shift depending on the surrounding colors.

In preparation for art journaling I’ve been doing some color mixing lately, so I happen to be really aware of hue at present. It’s fascinating and often surprising what happens when you mix certain colors.

It also matters a lot when you’re getting something printed in a 4 (or more) color process too—a 5% shift in the saturation of a color may or may not be a huge deal, depending on the hue. That’s something I imagine you’re very much aware of when printing your photographs.