Do you keep getting told your images have colour cast? Well X-Rite, who produce a whole range of colour calibration devices including the industry standard i1 and the almost affordable colormunki, have made a simple colour test “Test your color IQ”. Have a go it could be quite revealing. Put your scores in the comments if you dare. I will put mine in later.
Thanks to Mike Johnson, The Online Photographer for the tip.
Hi all,
Have just done the colour test and, shock, much surprise, etc, have managed a score of zero and a perfect result!
David Butterworth.
So did I David! but that’s not too surprising, as only 4 women per 1000 are colour deficient, whereas 7 per hundred males are colour deficient. So in our society, statistically, we should find about 2 colour deficient males….anyone owning up?
I also scored zero, so why do I sometimes wear odd socks?
Hi,
I’ll come clean and admit that despite taking time over it, I scored 23. Perhaps this explains why I like highly saturated punchy images, or perhaps my monitor just needs calibrating!
Sue
Sue, it’s very unlikely that you are colour deficient, being a woman and all, so much more likely that your monitor is not differentiating between some of the colours. It may need calibrating…you could always hire the Spyder from the club to get it done.
Chris
I did say I would let you know how I did, and I got a perfect zero.
There were a few tiles that had odd luminosity values so those nearly through me – it was obvious they were wrong when they were out of place.
Surprising for a man I know although many years ago when I worked on the bench at Ferranti’s I had to pass their very stringent colour vision test.
I may be able to differentiate subtle hues but, like a man, I have little sense what colour goes well with another colour.
Mike
Men are either colour blind or not at all, so the vast majority of men perceive colour as well as women do. About 7% of men are colour blind, mainly in the red/green part of the spectrum. Only 0.4% of women have any colour deficiency at all and usually not as severe.
Like haemophilia, colour blindness is carried on the X chromosome, of which men have only one copy. Women are protected because they have two X chromosomes, so if they inherit a faulty X, they are not colour blind. But women can pass on the faulty X chromosome to their children. Their male offspring, having only one X chromosome, inherit the colour blindness if they inherit the faulty X chromosome. In colour blind individuals, the faulty green or red cones (colour receptors at the back of the eye) work poorly or sometimes not at all, making it very difficult to distinguish between reds, browns and greens.
Whether a normal-seeing male can match up his socks correctly or choose colours that work together is something entirely different!
Chris