Scanning in 16-bit colour. I have a Canon CanoScan LiDE 600F plugged into a Vista machine. The box says "9600 x 4800 resolution! 48-bit colour!". Scanning options in Vista (It's all WIA not Twain these days) seem to limit me to 600dpi and 8-bit colour. Am I missing something, or does anyone else have any experience of pulling off this feat with this hardware, or know why the box would seem to be claiming unfacts?
posted on Jul 14, 2008 - 7 answers

What is the best approach to color management? I only just realised that how I see my photos in iPhoto, Photoshop, and Safari isn't how the majority of people on the net are seeing them? What is the best setup for consistent color management that still looks good? [more inside]
posted on Jul 11, 2008 - 7 answers

Two Americans a year out of college, hoping to find some way to move to Toronto. Is this even plausible? [more inside]
posted on Jun 28, 2008 - 22 answers

I have LCD displays I need to display video on, but they displays were made on the cheap and the colors display strangely. The screens have no brightness/contrast adjustment options. How do I determine the contrast ratio/gamma of these screens so that I can make adjustments to my video files? [more inside]
posted on Mar 26, 2008 - 4 answers

Colour Theory: I have an ActionScript 3 project that has models that wear changeable clothing, where the style and colour of the clothing can change. The clothing is composed of several layers (colour, border, details) and there are preset colours for the 'colour' layer. When the colour layer changes I need to automatically calculate a contrasting colour for the border layer. I know this involves the HSV colour space but I'm struggling to get good results. [more inside]
posted on Feb 13, 2008 - 2 answers

I can't focus on blue lights. Is this normal? [more inside]
posted on Nov 22, 2007 - 18 answers

What the heck is wrong with the colour on my TV? [more inside]
posted on Nov 12, 2007 - 16 answers

My hair is sort of a light purple-y gray. It was supposed to be dark blond. Now what? [more inside]
posted on Oct 25, 2007 - 10 answers

What color(s) should we paint the walls in our cubicle-filled office environment? [more inside]
posted on Aug 30, 2007 - 12 answers

suggest some fun, upbeat, likeable songs that mention specific colours? [more inside]
posted on Aug 21, 2007 - 55 answers

Please give me your reccomendations for some nice-looking coloured contact lenses that are comfortable for full time wear. [more inside]
posted on Aug 14, 2007 - 2 answers

I think I need a new printer for my eBay business. Can you recommend a quality replacement for my beleaguered Pixma? [more inside]
posted on Aug 2, 2007 - 3 answers

Colour Grading: Tips, Trick and Other Helpful stuff. [more inside]
posted on Jul 18, 2007 - 2 answers

When I use the magnifying glass in the Mac OS X colour picker, I get a colour value darker than what I clicked on. Why? [more inside]
posted on Jun 21, 2007 - 1 answers

Looking for recommendations for a colour laser printer, specifically for printing colour text. [more inside]
posted on May 14, 2007 - 6 answers

Why am I getting different colours when saving images in Photoshop? [more inside]
posted on May 13, 2007 - 9 answers

Late last year (November?) I saw Brad Pitt with a sort of patchwork of highlights on the cover of one of those major gossip magazines at a supermarket checkout. Which magazine/issue was it--or more to the point, where can I find an image of Brad Pitt with that look--or even more to the point, is there a more precise way of referring to it than 'patchwork of hilghlights'? [more inside]
posted on Mar 18, 2007 - 4 answers

Help! I've just reinstalled Windows XP, and now my computer doesn't recognize that I have a monitor in the Device Manager, which means I can't install drivers, which means my screen in currently in 4-bit colour mode. Which is really not going to sit well with my family if I can't fix it. [more inside]
posted on Feb 21, 2007 - 12 answers

BreastFilter: Why am I losing pigment in the lower portion of each of my areolas? [more inside]
posted on Jan 17, 2007 - 6 answers

Homebrewfilter: why do clear bottles carbonate the beer better? [more inside]
posted on Dec 4, 2006 - 19 answers

I want to generate a full-screen traversal of the entirety of RGB colour space. This is to be played back on a Windows computer. [more inside]
posted on Oct 30, 2006 - 7 answers

How does colour-coding of medications work? For instance, Prozac is typically the combination of green and white, and the generic brands also perserve this colour. Is there some kind of universal system that pharmaceutical companies adhere to? How are the colours of medications determined?
posted on Oct 28, 2006 - 13 answers

What colours do other cultures use for babies? Here we have baby blue & pink. Do other cultures also have colours that are used for newborns, or is that specific to Western culture?
posted on Oct 22, 2006 - 9 answers

I need help finding a (British?) children's book from the mid 1980's. It was an introduction to colour theory under the guise of a storybook. It had great transparent plastic pages that you could overlay to see the effects of subtractive colour spaces. I don't remember what the story was about, but there were lots of balloons. [more inside]
posted on Oct 5, 2006 - 2 answers

Have the meanings of words referring to colours changed? [more inside]
posted on Sep 3, 2006 - 32 answers

I woke up one morning, one eye at a time, with a view of my girlfriend's face. Through one eye, she looked a bit rosy in her cheeks and on her ear, a healthy-looking woman. Switching to the other eye, her skin was pale, and the blush was gone. Surprised, I propped myself up and looked at a red pillow next to my bed: one eye bright red, and through the other a washed out ruddy colour. My eyes seem fine now, but is that all in my head? What happened to my eyes that morning?
posted on Aug 14, 2006 - 26 answers

I have dark brown hair, yet I grow a beard tinged with quite a bit of ginger hair. Why? [more inside]
posted on Mar 13, 2006 - 31 answers

Why do the paints used on DynoRod vans, for example, have such luminosity? [more inside]
posted on Jul 12, 2005 - 3 answers

Is there a way to tint an entire web page a certain colour? As in, not actually altering the images and other content to be tinted that colour, just for the content to look that way when viewed on that page. It sounds to me like something that could be done with CSS but I'm really not sure. Google's results aren't turning up quite what I'm looking for, although maybe I just suck at finding the right words for this query.
posted on Jan 10, 2005 - 8 answers

Artistic Metafilter users, I need your advice! I have recently acquired some oil paints and a brush, and am very much enjoying using them so far. I wonder if anyone has some advice about the non-obvious stuff regarding oil painting. I've already discovered some things that I didn't know before (i.e. a bit of red paint and an equally-sized bit of yellow don't make orange, they make slightly lighter red), but please post obvious things anyhow - I probably don't know about them. I (to my shame) have spent almost the entirety of my artistic life using Photoshop and Lightwave, so this is very fun and confusing territory for me.
posted on Dec 30, 2004 - 23 answers

What's the best color printer for "fine art" printing, using OSX? I might consider color laser, but a good inkjet would also be acceptable. [More Inside]
posted on Oct 23, 2004 - 14 answers

Am I color blind? Because "The Green" looks more brown to me than anything else.
posted on Sep 21, 2004 - 45 answers

Television repair question: My TV displays everything in fuzzy black and white, and the audio is just static. [MI]
posted on Sep 7, 2004 - 3 answers

I have an IBM T41 laptop with the high-res 1400x1080 display, which is a great machine. However, the screen isn't great for touching up digital pictures because the colours aren't as good as the CRT on my PC. Is there any way I can tweak the display settings to improve the colour rendition?
posted on Sep 4, 2004 - 7 answers

MacAskMe: Two Mac related questions. The first regards Mac compatible security camera solutions; the second involves changing the color of the cursor/pointer in OS X. [more mac mumbojumbo inside]
posted on Apr 13, 2004 - 9 answers

Is it possible to get good color out of an (oldish) laptop LCD? {More Inside}
posted on Mar 30, 2004 - 2 answers

I recently got given, as a gift, a 1991 PANTONE SWATCH BOOK. On the back of the book there's the famous disclaimer: "due to uncontrollable pigment fading (etc) this book will change in approximately one year ... This book should be replaced regularly to maintain accurate color communication" - Now, I've used (but never personally owned) Pantone books for years, old ones and new ones - and it's never really affected the color that is ultimately printed. Meaning the color I pick from the book ends up looking just like the color that was printed. Question to you all, does the (reasonable) age of a pantone book really matter? I can see how things might change slightly, since it is paper and ink - and they probably have to include this disclaimer for authoritative reasons unimportant to someone like me who just wants a kind of green, a kind of brown - and not a scientifically exact color. Really at 80 bucks this "use only for a year" deal seems crazy. Is my thirteen-year old Pantone book useless? Does anyone have an old one and a new one to compare to? Thoughts? Opinions?
posted on Mar 2, 2004 - 13 answers

Why were computers, Apple and IBM compatibles, from a few years back available in beige and well just beige? Is there a reason why beige was the defacto colour of computing hardware?
posted on Dec 31, 2003 - 13 answers