Comments on: Real Life Digital Color Picker

By: Actually designer

Actually designer — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:28:15 +0000

Magenta has to much blue in it? really?

As someone who has actually printer something. I can can say with 100% accuracy that you can in fact yield orange from a CMYK printer. (someone please produce a link to a RGB? printer)

Yes you could use a RGB printer. but you would severely limit your color choices. lol

Stop pretending to be an expert when you’re not.

By: Lorenzo

Lorenzo — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:41:20 +0000

lol why RGB?

Red Green Blue is the standard color set for monitors.
It should be CMYK

nice concept tho. Keep on dreaming!

By: James M

James M — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:02:28 +0000

I could see the RGB if it interacted with say a WACCOM tablet. I think in terms of total Colour Gamut, you just wouldn’t be able to even use standard 4 color process ink (CMYK) for example, you couldn’t reproduce an Orange (Magenta has too much blue in it) so it would have to be a multi ink colour system like High end printers (8 to 12 color inks) in order to produce the widest gamut of colours possible. The quantity of ink for a 12 color cartridge in a pen wouldn’t be practical nor really feasable. I think that this as a tip for a connected ink system/air supply for an airbrush would be great. And yes the light/shadow issue of the pen would have to be considered (perhaps a 5 second averaging select) and you would have to be able to calibrate it’s whit point value. So in the end, probably very expensive. Now as an accessory for a WACCOM tablet, much bheaper and easier to go from prototype to design. Pass it to Art Lebedev

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:02:17 +0000

It would be a great device for digital artists to capture colors from their everyday life walking around and then loading them into Photoshop or whatever program they use. The “pen” could be the stylus for a graphics tablet.

By: Youp

Youp — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 07:45:10 +0000

scott,

All your life you will meet idiots. Many of whom break physics everyday when no one is watching. Do not question these people. Simply accept that you cannot be one of them, and move on.

By: scott

scott — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:00:26 +0000

Joey,

RGB ink will never work, unless you have some way of changing the physical properties of the cosmos.

By: Joey

Joey — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:22:07 +0000

I think that people should stop complaining and actually wait until it has come out to judge it! It is not very fair otherwise and you never know-rgb might acutally work! You dont all know how it is going to turn out unless you acutally test it!

By: pepepaco

pepepaco — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:52:52 +0000

why not RGB? its true u wont get 16,000 colors but, i can think some, for example, red,green,blue… inst that enough? brown, purple…not?

then buy 16,000 pens and carry them in your back if you really need them….

By: Ekdor

Ekdor — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 08:42:45 +0000

Aside from the RGB “Typo”, the idea stated directly under the bottom image sounds a little more doable and in my world a little more useful. I’m referring specificity to “I would love to have a pen like this which helps me with my photography. Select color and tell your computer later how that color looked like exactly.”

There would still be some issues already related to scanning such as colour calibration, management, etc.

For this to be useful to an artist they would require samples of colour they want all around them.

Still an interesting concept.

By: LIsa

LIsa — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:34:01 +0000

I see lots of comments from people saying it shouldn’t be RGB – why the are the sensor chips in cameras rgb? and have you tried converting a photo from rgb ( which is it’s original colour format) to cymk? Most times it looks awful – A cymk printer can print out an rgb photo no problems if you configure your resources correctly. Just a thought.