The Universe in Color by Robert Gendler

How it is done

(Processing done using Fits Liberator and PS CS2)

M57, Planetary Nebula in Lyra

Color CCD Imaging with Luminance Layering

Color CCD imaging poses many unique challenges and frustrations to the astroimager. Despite these difficulties beautifully aesthetic color images are obtainable using a new innovative technique developed by astroimagers

Step by Step Assembly of an LRGB Image using Photoshop 5.5.

Luminance Layering technique can greatly enhance the amateurs ability to successfully produce high quality color CCD astroimages. I hope the above guidelines will help amateurs get started with this new innovative technique.

robgendlerastropics.com

Tutorial: Color CCD Imaging with Luminance Layering

3D TODAY: The Universe in Color by Robert Gendler http://bit.ly/eVAUJV

15 Palette Generator and Color Tools

unstage.com

Are ColorsTrue to Everybody?

Different perceptions of colors as if you could have different ears to listen to music.

• Normal vision
• Protanopy
• Deuteranopy
• Tritanopy
• Protanomaly
• Deuteranomaly
• Tritanomaly
• Full colorblindness
• Atypical monochromatism

colorschemedesigner.com

Cyndi Lauper "True Colors"

"But I see your true colors

shining through

I see your true colors

and that's why I love you

so don't be afraid to let them show

your true colors

true colors are beautiful

like a rainbow"

40 Useful Online Generators For Web Designers - Noupe Design Blog

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ColorSchemer | ColorPix | Galleria | Free

ColorPix is a useful little color picker that grabs the pixel under your mouse and transforms it into a number of different color formats.

You can use the built-in magnifier to zoom in on your screen, click on a color value to copy it directly to the clipboard, and even keep ColorPix on top of all other apps and out of the way.

ColorPix Window with Magnifier

Expanding the ColorPix window to show the magnifier lets you zoom in on your screen underneath your mouse.

You can also control the zoom percentage, up to 2000%.

ColorPix (PC )  colorschemer.com/colorpix

ColorSchemer Galleria ( Mac): colorschemer.com/galleria

Wonderful Photos Using The Selective Color Technique | photopoly

 

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How to Get the Best Color Out of Your Photos

"Black and white has long been the default "artistic" style for photographs, so it can be easy to forget how compelling a color photograph can be. Here's an in-depth guide to help you get amazing color in your photos...."

Useful article = lifehacker.com

Blast from the Past 6 | When life was in B&W

The earliest color motion pictures that you will ever see.

Kyle Alvut

"In these newly preserved tests, made in 1922 at the Paragon Studios in Fort Lee, New Jersey, actress Mae Murray appears almost translucent, her flesh a pale white that is reminiscent of perfectly sculpted marble, enhanced with touches of color to her lips, eyes, and hair.
She is joined by actress Hope Hampton modeling costumes from The Light in the Dark (1922), which contained the first commercial use of Two-Color Kodachrome in a feature film.
Ziegfeld Follies actress Mary Eaton and an unidentified woman and child also appear." Thomas Hoehn.

Sources: ifc.com
1000words.kodak.com (article by  Thomas Hoehn)

3D TODAY   # blast from the past

• Part 1   Blast from the past: Remote  ancestors and faces in 3D
• Part 2   Forward to the Past
• Part 3   Medieval snapshot 
• Part 4   More ancestors than we thought!
• Part 5   A Blast from the Past: Collection | Part 5
• Part 6   Blast from the Past 6 | When life was in B&W

What is Wolfram|Alpha?

 I discovered this tool by Dale Botha !

   Cereously!

"Ceres!  We're going to Ceres!  NASA's Dawn spacecraft is en route and should arrive in February 2015.  Considering we've known about it for over 2 centuries and it is 3 times closer than Saturn and 10 times closer than Neptune and their moons, I've always been very surprised to see the fuzzy images we have of it..."

enceladus + ceres+triton = wolframalpha.com

Read his post here: curiousdale.posterous.com/cereously 

 About Wolfram|Alpha

"Wolfram|Alpha's long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. We aim to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything. Our goal is to build on the achievements of science and other systematizations of knowledge to provide a single source that can be relied on by everyone for definitive answers to factual queries..." http://www.wolframalpha.com/about.html

another example: Color

Color Names

• Compute properties of a named color:
• specify an HTML color:

Color Addition

• add two or more colors:

Color Systems

• specify a color using red-green-blue (RGB) values:
• use a 24-bit hexadecimal RGB color specification:
• specify a color using cyan-magenta-yellow-black (CMYK) values:
• specify a color using hue, saturation, and value (HSV):
• specify a color using hue, saturation, and lightness (HSL):

Temperatures

• compute the blackbody radiation color for a temperature:

 Wavelengths

• compute the visible light color corresponding to a wavelength:
• compute the visible light color corresponding to a frequency:

and look at the resultat here: wolframalpha.com

Blog: blog.wolframalpha.com

Where are Wolfram|Alpha widgets?

blog.wolframalpha.com

Pixels Camouflage

"The days of disguising things from the human eye are gone. Now, camouflage is designed to hide objects from digital satellites."  thebrigade.com

Optic art as a way to survive  3d-today.org

3d-today.org #optic

Global Business Color Identities | COLOURlovers

 Read more: fr-fr.colourlovers.com

Color Correction Basics in Photoshop | Tutorial9

Color Correction Basics in Photoshop | Tutorial9

As if the Delaunays had painted an homage to time

"Colhour is a system for visualising time, based on the spectrum of the rainbow. Every variable in the clock - second, minute, hour, day, month and year - cycles through the colors of the spectrum which begins with the color purple. However, the most important aspect is not that all the variables are represented – an application of Colhour could aswell only include the seconds or a combination of a couple of the variables" via harald.net

Thanks @erickmercer for your Tweet! "Colhour is a system for visualising time, based on the spectrum of the rainbow. http://post.ly/XrSt"

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Sharpen your color sensitivity

 Elvan Online is an online color scheme generator.

"You can either use the RGB sliders or directly the type RGB or HEX values to change the main color. Use "Lighten" and "Darken" buttons to change the lightness. Use "Saturate" and "Desaturate" buttons to change the saturation. You can also choose from different harmony and variation formulas. Adobe Flash Player 6 required to view Elvan Online." Elvan Online

 colorschemegenerator.com

I found this tool at: http://imjustcreative.posterous.com/elvan-online-online-color-picker-color-sc... ( Graham Smith)

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Gamma error in picture scaling

There is an error in most photography scaling algorithms. All software tested (August 2007) had the problem: The Gimp, Adobe Photoshop, CinePaint, Nip2, ImageMagick, GQview, Eye of Gnome, Paint and Krita. Also three different operating systems were used: Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. (Software that don't have the problem are listed at the end of this introduction.)...read this article! 4p8.com

Eric Brasseur

via 4p8.com

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The Color Blindess Test / Nerdmodo

via nerdmodo.com

Answers (from top to bottom) : 68, 29, 8, 45, 56, 6, 25, 10, 7, 6, 26, 73, 74, 45

 

 

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Color test and naming

Color test and naming

chir.ag

Name that Color

Click & drag over the Color Wheel to make a color

Color Name & Hue 

Color Arrangement Test

Coblis — Color Blindness Simulator

LINKS

chir.ag

Colblindor

John Dyer

What color is the universe?

The Average Color of the Universe / APOD: 2009 November 1

" What color is the universe? More precisely, if the entire sky were smeared out, what color would the final mix be? This whimsical question came up when trying to determine what stars are commonplace in nearby galaxies. The answer, depicted above, is a conditionally perceived shade of beige. To determine this, astronomers computationally averaged the light emitted by one of the largest sample of galaxies yet analyzed: the 200,000 galaxies of the 2dF survey. The resulting cosmic spectrum has some emission in all parts of the electromagnetic spectrum, but a single perceived composite color. This color has become much less blue over the past 10 billion years, indicating that redder stars are becoming more prevalent. In a contest to better name the color, notable entries included skyvory, univeige, and the winner: cosmic latte. "

Credit: Karl Glazebrook & Ivan Baldry (JHU)

via apod.nasa.gov

Colour Contrast Analyser for Web Pages / Vision Australia

What is the colour contrast Analyser?

Take a tour!  visionaustralia.org

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Play with your Brain

via i.imgur.com

 

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