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screen printing => Waterbase and Discharge => Topic started by: Dottonedan on July 09, 2012, 05:08:59 PM

Title: metamerism makes you pick different colors?
Post by: Dottonedan on July 09, 2012, 05:08:59 PM

Discharge on colored garments amkes people want to pick a lighter color due to the slight dulling effect. What about the surrounding area/ Do any of you ever make adjustments to color choices because of the garment color?  take a look at an orange ink on a Kiwi garment. Does it visually become more of a shade of brown when on Kiwi?


Do any of you who mix inks and choose the ink colors per screen ever choose a lighter color or a color that will compensate for visual color shifts due to large areas of a surrounding color, similar to metamerism?  This metamerism is caused by a color read under various light sources.  Here, with screen printing, the surrounding color can shift the appearance of an ink color on a specific garment color.



http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamerism_(color) (http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamerism_(color))


Here is another good read on it. http://photoshopnews.com/2005/04/20/metamerism-–-friend-or-foe/ (http://photoshopnews.com/2005/04/20/metamerism-–-friend-or-foe/)

Title: Re: metamerism makes you pick different colors?
Post by: Dottonedan on July 10, 2012, 11:38:07 AM

Well Dan,  That is interesting. Interesting to you but apparently only you.  LOL.   Wha?  You talking to me?  Must be, I don't see anyone else here for you to be talking to.    Ok. Back to work.  Note to self. Bring up more interesting topics.  LOL.

Title: Re: metamerism makes you pick different colors?
Post by: Frog on July 10, 2012, 11:43:44 AM

Dan, apparently your attempt to illuminate the masses on this segment of colorimetry could be described as" illuminant metameric failure"

Title: Re: metamerism makes you pick different colors?
Post by: Dottonedan on July 10, 2012, 11:48:42 AM

easy for you to say. ::)

Title: Re: metamerism makes you pick different colors?
Post by: Colin on July 10, 2012, 02:28:28 PM

I know I have on occasion.  Can't remember what they were though....

My biggest color beef is when people put a medium/columbia blue shade on red tee's.  It makes my eyes bug out and go crosswise  :o

Title: Re: metamerism makes you pick different colors?
Post by: Prosperi-Tees on July 10, 2012, 02:29:34 PM

Reds and blues are the worst.

Title: Re: metamerism makes you pick different colors?
Post by: ScreenFoo on July 10, 2012, 02:40:03 PM

I would have said yes this morning--but I almost never print discharge.

Do I change ink colors based on what color shirt they're going on?  Sure, if the customer is smart enough to let me.

Warm greys and light browns on the orange hue side, cool greys and light blues on the blue side.  And you can always get into the 'shift' (I think what you were getting at) where, say, you put lemon yellow on a green shirt for a more subtle print, or golden yellow on a green shirt to make it 'pop'.

Quote from: Frog on July 10, 2012, 11:43:44 AM

Dan, apparently your attempt to illuminate the masses on this segment of colorimetry could be described as" illuminant metameric failure"

Maybe when people get outside, this post will make more sense.  :)

Title: Re: metamerism makes you pick different colors?
Post by: Frog on July 10, 2012, 03:15:14 PM

I think that when people get to the brass tacks of the issue, they won't get lost in the high-faluting scientific terms that tend to make one's head swim.

Title: Re: metamerism makes you pick different colors?
Post by: Sbrem on July 10, 2012, 03:19:11 PM

No Dan, it's interesting. I've read it over before, but more importantly, I'm too slammed to dig in again.

Steve

Title: Re: metamerism makes you pick different colors?
Post by: tonypep on July 10, 2012, 06:48:43 PM

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Title: Re: metamerism makes you pick different colors?
Post by: sweetts on July 11, 2012, 04:39:59 PM

The big words scared me from this thread

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