BassnRandy Posted June 12, 2007 Report Share Posted June 12, 2007 Couldn't find this one. Can anyone give me the formula for sand color. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockylinx Posted June 12, 2007 Report Share Posted June 12, 2007 no picture Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nova Posted June 12, 2007 Report Share Posted June 12, 2007 4 oz plastic 2 drops white 1/8 tsp white pearl fine gold glitter fine black glitter There are several types of sand color out there. Some don't even look like sand. This is one time that you want the glitter to bleed just a little. www.novalures.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.J. Posted June 12, 2007 Report Share Posted June 12, 2007 Nova is right on with his recipe. This is a great color. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BassnRandy Posted June 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 12, 2007 Thanks! Will this come out similar to Zooms? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nova Posted June 12, 2007 Report Share Posted June 12, 2007 Don't know; what does Zoom's look like? I don't worry too much about other company's colors unless I'm requested to do so by a customer. I prefer to contsruct my own colors and stay as unique/individual as possible. All of the colors you see from the "big" boys had to be constructed at some point, so why can't new colors be done by someone else is my theory. One of the best colors I have come up with is the green smoke. This color catches fish in all colors of water. It's even done well in salt water. www.novalures.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Reid Posted June 12, 2007 Report Share Posted June 12, 2007 Randy, You have to watch this Nova you know he almost had me convinced that brown was black recently. No seriously something that we were discussing was showing up as brown on my screen and with his experience he was probably right. I still havnt figured it out yet and will try what we were discussing eventually to see wether he was right. Thanks for this sand colour Nova, must try it. I suspect it might work alright with flounder on a sandy muddy bottom so will try that as well and also your green smoke. Randy I have been reasonably impressed with some of Novas colours I have seen and will eventually play around with them a bit but I also believe he is right when he says you need to develop your own unique/individual colours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockylinx Posted June 12, 2007 Report Share Posted June 12, 2007 Randy, You have to watch this Nova you know he almost had me convinced that brown was black recently. No seriously something that we were discussing was showing up as brown on my screen and with his experience he was probably right. I still havnt figured it out yet and will try what we were discussing eventually to see wether he was right. Thanks for this sand colour Nova, must try it. I suspect it might work alright with flounder on a sandy muddy bottom so will try that as well and also your green smoke. Randy I have been reasonably impressed with some of Novas colours I have seen and will eventually play around with them a bit but I also believe he is right when he says you need to develop your own unique/individual colours. You need to adjust your monitor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Reid Posted June 12, 2007 Report Share Posted June 12, 2007 Pete, Yes I realise. Shortly when I get round to getting my spectrophotometer back I will do so. Its the only really true way of getting true colour I know. None of these programs you can download off the net actually do it.(that I have seen anyway). They are pretty close but not close enough. I was involved with a bit of high quality printing for a while and this was specifically designed so you could get accurate reproduceable colour virtually everytime. That certainly set the most accurate colours I have seen. I have run a number of those programs including MSs and then gone through with the spectrophotometer and they all varied when there was a number of monitors. With this you could set 20 in a row and the colour would all be picture perfect on every monitor with no variation until one monitor shifted which suprisingly often only takes a week or two as phosphors change which is determined by the age of the monitors and the phosphors used. No two monitors are ever the same although the human eye and brain tells us they are but this got them to as close a match as anything out there. Also no two humans see exactly the same colour. I had this clearly demonstrated to me years ago when I went up to Everest Base Camp tramping and I could clearly see in vivid colour many hundreds of yards away what most people couldnt and could only see hazily. I am an exception to the rule as I have been both longsighted and shortsighted in my life. Most people are one or the other which gets more accentuated as they age. The quality of monitors has certainly changed too and has gone downhill as they have got cheaper. Quality monitors like Sony, Phillips, Viewsonic etc are the exception today not the rule so its also not suprising each of us see and perceive colours a little differently as well. Plus the quality of Chinese glass was never high originally where a lot of the monitors are made today until they started manufacturing solar tube solar heating and they bought good Canadian and German technology which immediately improved their glass clarity and actual light transmission. Sorry people if I appear to be hijacking this thread as I its supposed to be about colour formulas but I also believe this is important and I am just trying to explain to Rocky. I suppose whats really important is wether the colour you use really catches fish and how much variations change that factor. At the end its not just the colour of the bait which is important but the water colour, clarity, composition, background, latitude, sunshine, and season etc which affect it as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint308 Posted June 13, 2007 Report Share Posted June 13, 2007 Here is what I came up with for sand this afternoon. Pic descriptions Sand- Normal Zoom sand with black, silver and gold Sand Silver- same zoom sand but with only silver flake Sand Comp-the two sticks side by side Both of these colors were poured from the same batch of plastic. I poured the silver first then added black and gold to the remaining plastic. I just wanted to show everyone the impact that glitter color has on light colored plastics. Saint. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Reid Posted June 13, 2007 Report Share Posted June 13, 2007 Looks good Saint. I really like your pictures they download really easy and get the idea across real quick. Zap and they are here. I really like that you have kept them small in size and file size as a result. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint308 Posted June 13, 2007 Report Share Posted June 13, 2007 Here are my second attempts. These are not as dark. Saint. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nova Posted June 13, 2007 Report Share Posted June 13, 2007 I like the darker one. Nice color Saint. www.novalures.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BassnRandy Posted June 14, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 14, 2007 Thanks as always for the help guys. Nova your formula is a winner as far as I am concerned.. Nice looking baits Alchi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Reid Posted June 14, 2007 Report Share Posted June 14, 2007 Saint, Even better proportionally and they are still nice small files. I like the way you have cropped virtually all the irrelevant background away. I agree with Nova but any of these would contrast and work well against a sandy muddy bottom such as you get in an estaury I was thinking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint308 Posted June 14, 2007 Report Share Posted June 14, 2007 Thanks guys, off to the lake house until next wednesday. Have a good one. Saint. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
