color match

[rockylinx]

Has anyone poured the following color? It looks like a smoke color with blue glitter

Please let me know

Pete

[nova]

One drop LC black in 4 oz. plastic. Blue glitter.

www.novalures.com

[saint308]

Someone please help me, I feel like Rosie O Donnell. I know what I am about say will P'O a few people. Either it is my monitor or I have had too many Coors lights, but that looks very brown to me. How do you guys get smoke out of that? I could not imagine how black could give you that color. Nova, this is not against you or rocky but man all I see is brown. Please someone teach me. Thanks. Saint.

[alsworms]

You're not alone Saint. That looks like MF cinnamon color to me, but I've had a few cold ones myself.

[rockylinx]

Saint as long as you dont look like her (Rosie) your OK

to calibrate your monitor please go to the following link and good luck.

Am I the only fool thats not drunk tonight?

http://www.oceanlight.com/html/about_color.html

[Delw]

The reason it shows more brown is due to the picture being taken and not having the proper light. and the background.

I know that color and have seen it, matter of fact it looks like a worm I have sitting on my desk. I could be wrong though. I think its a berkly worm color, at least this worm I have looks like a berkely

Novas pretty close to being right on the money however you want a blue glitter that bleeds other wise you wont get that exact color.

the blue will give it that tint that you need.

[David Reid]

You are all wrong its purple and green with pink elephants stomping all over it. No it dosnt suprise you all see it as different. We all see colours slightly differently. Some of this is our monitors, a very very little due to the software we are using, and most of it slight differences in the way each of us perceive colours. I have to agree with you Saint and Alsworms that it does look fairly brown and I think you are probably not too bad and fairly close to the mark Alsworms when you suggest Cinnamon although I cant comment on the MF colour as I havnt seen any of their colours. In truth I expect this colour was put together with a small amount of black for the smoke and 2 or 3 times that for the cinnamon. How much of that proportionally I dont know but I imagine that depends on what temp the plastic was taken too and how long it was held at the pouring temp. Some of that brown may be due to overcooking or being held too long at a reasonable temp. As an ex Gordon Blue chef (Thats Cordon Bleu to you less informed sods and non Francophiles out there), Painter, and Colour Consultant in some of my other reincarnations I use to have a pretty good eye for colour and according to some could match colour perfectly. I wasnt bad at it at all but I found as I got older the only way one could match colour perfectly due to the slight differences all of us has was with the use of a Colour PhotoSpectrometer. I actually own one and lent it to someone a few years ago who has never returned it. Its probably time I went and got it back or twisted the guys arm until he coughed up as he has built a substantial business empire on it and never ever had the decency to say Thankyou or return it. It was and still is a substantially brilliant piece of equipment with the best colour matching ability I have ever seen. With something like that I suspect I could match any colour I want. Its also an expensive piece of equipment so its time it was sorted.

[David Reid]

Del,You are right about the proper light and background as well. Its almost definitely taken indoors as well with incandescent lighting I imagine.

PS. I think your right about the Berkley colour as well. As soon as I saw it that is exactly what I recalled the colour as.

[MDC]

Saint

You're not the only one drinking tonight

As far as the color though, I see it as smoke

[snippp]

Look at the color of the surface it is sitting on. There is where you get the brown/cin. color.

[Richard Prager]

I'll go with Nova on this one.

[rockylinx]

Thanks Nova for your insight

I'll try the black

[nova]

Thanks. I was starting to wonder if my eyes were going or the new flat screen monitor I bought. lol

www.novalures.com

[David Reid]

Interesting that we all see this slightly differently. Nova I will certainly bow to your knowledge and experience on this one although from what I can see it definitely has brown or cinnamon in the colour. I have seen enough pictures on this site of your work to see and know you have a pretty good knowledge of colour and what you are doing. I have been impressed with quite a bit of your work that I have seen whereas I have yet to pour a bait and my knowledge and experience is only based on a long experience of colour in other fields.

Snipp and Del have very valid points. Rocky any chance of taking another photo with the bait on a white background and reposting that so we all can get a better picture and another look at it?

[BassnG3]

It's Saturday morning I am not hung over, I haven't had a drink yet (after grass cutting:tipsy: ), and I had a full nights sleep for a change! Where's the picture?? It doesn't even show up on my screen:huh:

Scott

[alsworms]

Look at the color of the surface it is sitting on. There is where you get the brown/cin. color.

Good call snippp. Didn't even think of that. Backgrounds do make all the difference in the world. My currently sober mind now says Nova is right on......smoke and blue glitter.

[The Dutchman]

Where's the pic?

[rockylinx]

Yes, i will post the picture and use a gray card today

[rockylinx]

Here it is

Top part of this lure

Please adjust your monitors

don't complain about my dam good pictures

ATTN. drunk people please don't droll on the keyboards

Pete

[nova]

I stand by my first thought. Smoke/blue.

www.novalures.com

[David Reid]

First pic looks like a Big Hammer bait.

2nd pic looks to be a lemon background but still shows as brown.

3rd pic is definitely on a brown background.

Believe Nova is probably right but it also contains some brown maybe light Rootbeer perhaps (not the dark LC one I have seen). Until I get some colours to play with and look at cant comment fairly.

Not all that much difference between pics 2 & 3. Both have a brown colour although pic 3 shows as slightly darker.

Pete no complaints about your pics. Could have done better myself naturally (just joking) Lol. No excellent pics and please post pic of new bait when you have poured it with what you think is right colour/s. The interesting thing is all pics show slightly differently based on background.

[David Reid]

Nova, Does that show as brown on your monitor and your experience tells you it is smoke created by use of black colorant or does it show as black? My monitor certainly shows it as brown (I probably should say Tan). It may need adjustment and resetting but I prefer not to play with it at present. I normally leave monitors alone and dont play with them. That spectrophotometer of mine would set it perfectly if I had it back.

I notice you are darn good on Blue Blacks and Smoke colours which seem to work particularly good out here so may ask you for your input when I have further progressed.

[Richard Prager]

still smoke!

[Delw]

Noves 100%

yup you can tell with the first pic what the real color is

[David Reid]

Del, If there is no brown in that either from colorant or the cooking process then I would be very suprised. You may be dead right and black is the dominant colour but I certainly expect there to be some form of brown as well. It certainly shows as brown on my monitors colour and I dont think it is all that far out . Just shows you if I am wrong I will certainly need a bit of practice and experience to see the difference. I know the Berkley colour I saw had brown as well.