Try this Colour Test

Pirate · 06-08-2010

Hope this hasn't been posted before, or at least not lately.

A fun colour test to see how well your eyes are working:

http://www.xritephoto.com/ph_toolfra...action=coloriq

Roberto · 06-08-2010

Scored 10.. is it any good?
R.

HWRam · 06-08-2010

It is a nice test and fun to do.
I had not seen this kind of test before.
Thanks.
(Besides my score was 12)

Stuart John · 06-08-2010

Well It was fun I got 16 with an adobe gamma calibrated CRT so I am quite happy

Oh Two · 06-09-2010

I personally find the scoring wrong, and the areas of failure as presented do not specifically point to which errors I made, they do however, point to bunches, which lead me to believe that the errors fall in the temperature range spikes of a fluorescent light source.

For maximum color contrast adjustment in Photoshop I use eye glasses that i invented that are in tune to a quarter wave harmonic order of color based on a magenta filter of a standard density as a 'tuning fork'. Even with the glasses I get the same score, it's more about the monitor than the pilot.

Pirate · 06-09-2010

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Originally Posted by Oh Two

it's more about the monitor than the pilot.

Definitely about the monitor. My big one that I do most of my editing on is not calibrated by anything but my eye, and that took a while of looking at a developed picture and adjusting the monitor so I saw the same picture on the screen as I was holding in my hand. I still missed a few when I first did that colour test but I thought you guys here would like it too.

N. Bruce Nelson · 06-09-2010

I took this on an uncalibrated MSI netbook and got a 12. I don't know what this means, really, but I was surprised it was this good.

Bruce

Bobfrance · 06-09-2010

My eyes hurt!

I got 8

Jamie123 · 06-09-2010

''You have perfect color vision!"

It's quite funny, though, as I did this test a while back on my old monitor and had a pretty mediocre score. This time I really didn't concentrate much and was sure I would do really badly. My monitor now is a $250 23'' Dell HD display. Nothing fancy at all but I gues it does the trick.

bagdadchild · 06-09-2010

I got 4 points. I am using a calibrated CRT. The high score for my age group is apparently 1520 points.

gho · 06-09-2010

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Originally Posted by bagdadchild

I got 4 points. I am using a calibrated CRT. The high score for my age group is apparently 1520 points.

Congrats. As I understand it, the lower the score, the better the color acuity (range 0-99).

Keith · 06-09-2010

I'm stunned ... I scored a perfect zero!

Not what I expected at my age ... and my monitor is a Phillips something or other from a chain varity electrical store.

sevo · 06-09-2010

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Originally Posted by Pirate

Definitely about the monitor.

Or the environmental lighting - I did 9-15-27 for darkness-daylight-tungsten, with a 6500K calibrated monitor.

Sevo

randomtheng · 06-09-2010

scored 12, did it in a quick mad rush, at work! lol...

pevelg · 06-09-2010

impossible for the color blind like me.... Just even thinking about doing this test makes my head hurt. I need to go to bed now!

EDIT: tried anyways and got a 165.... yay.

Pirate · 06-09-2010

pevelg, thanks for posting that, I've wondered how the shades would look in Black and White.

Do you practice your photography with colour film or Black and White? I'm really curious since my father is colour blind and I'd like to get him into photography (or try) now that he's retired. I think he would like it.

scottwallick · 06-09-2010

Got a 3 on a calibrated Dell LCD. Fun, but my eyes are watering.

DRabbit · 06-09-2010

I got a 9.... But after the first two rows I was seriously losing interest and rushing. LOL

rbiemer · 06-10-2010

I just gave it a go on my Asus netbook w/9" screen. Got 35. And I am sitting on my porch under overcast skies.
Not great, I guess, but still above the median. I'll try it again on the monitor I use for editing and see what I get.
I would like to see the rows scored individually, though. I wonder if I did better on the first one or two or on the last.
Rob

pevelg · 06-10-2010

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pevelg, thanks for posting that, I've wondered how the shades would look in Black and White.

Do you practice your photography with colour film or Black and White? I'm really curious since my father is colour blind and I'd like to get him into photography (or try) now that he's retired. I think he would like it.

Actually, being color blind does not mean you only see in white and black. There is an eye condition where the (rods?, maybe cones) are dysfunctional and this causes one to see in only black and white. However, that condition comes with other consequences (poorer ability to see detail).

In my case, I have a great difficulty in distinguising shades of colors. Things just look the same.

As for your question, I shoot both color and black and white. However, when shooting color I am now only shooting slides. When scanning, I use IT8 targets to correct color and usually don't do any other changes to color. Another thing one should note is that I was never aware that I was colorblind until much later in life. I thought what I saw was/is normal and what everyone else saw. For example, during highschool I did a lot of art work and won some nice awards, but the judges never saw what I saw in my artwork and I saw it through colorblind eyes. Sort of freaky!!!

Since learning about colorblindness, I've started shooting more black and white and this has made post processing easier for me. I'd recommend B&W for your father as it makes the task easier and more enjoyable.

Jaime M · 06-10-2010

I scored 8!

On a 2007 MBP 15"

bmasonoh · 06-10-2010

Put me down for a 12 but I do wonder how much this measures monitor quality versus eye accuracy. Either way I'm satisfied.

Matus · 06-10-2010

I managed 11, but my MacBook does not allow for very good calibration and the colors are a bit dull.

But it was interesting, thanks.

Kier · 06-10-2010

I took this test a while ago and got 6 on my MBP, but the thought of doing it again is already making my eyes water!

I, too, think the monitor plays a huge part in this test though!

GBR66 · 06-15-2010

Just got 112! Reckon I'm leading the colour blind challenge division of this test! All the colour "curves" look perfect to me, but clearly not what you all see - I remember those school eyesight tests where they showed you a test sheet and those of you with good colour vision saw "33" and I saw "96" - and you couldn't see that...

I am rated CP4 (red/green) by the army...range is 1-4. That means when on a firing range with a red flag at a mile distant against a background of pine trees I would struggle to see the flag, but the questions along the lines of "what colour is my jacket" seem stupid...you can't understand what I see and I have no idea what you see....generally your green jacket looks what I know as green at 2 yards!

Good enough colour vision for 7 years as an infantryman but not Armour (coloured lights), Engineers (wrong coloured wires), Ordanance (same), Signals (same) or Catering Corps (Icing?) and I know I have no chance of being a night sailor...I stuggle to see the differnce between a UK £20 (purple?) and £5 (blue?) note on colour, but have learned to check the numbers!

Coming back to photography - I have moved to B&W over the last couple of years - like the look anyway, but maybe I also find the digital PP suits me better and has less chance for me to muck it up!

Guy