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My superpower is strong red-green color-blindness. I am confident in the accuracy of my photos (I use natural light and/or daylight bulbs, plain white/black backgrounds, etc.) but when it’s time to actually name a color in Item Specifics and descriptions, I run the risk of “Item not as described” returns.
Anyone out there have tools or strategies for this situation?
I fly solo, so I don’t have a helper to check my work, unfortunately. I do put a disclaimer in my descriptions.
Whenever possible, I just don’t specify the color, but I reckon that doesn’t help my items’ searchability.
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Such an interesting conundrum. Here’s a solution:
–invest in those color blind glasses for about $100: https://www.amazon.com/Pilestone-TP-012-Corrective-Red-Green-Blindness/dp/B072JLXT9DHave you ever tried the glasses? The interwebs is full of videos of color blind people seeing the full spectrum for the first time.
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I like Jay’s idea, but here’s another one: Try using Photoshop or similar photo editing software to find the unique color code of the color from your photo. Using the dropper tool you can find out its RGB value which will coincide with a specific color range. You could also post the photos and ask friends/family/forum posters for help as well.
Best of luck to you ^_^.
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Well, that would work at a very granular level, but I can’t add that many steps to my process. At the moment, I’m shooting 12 pics with my Iphone, then heading straight to the computer to list. I just need a way to find accurately name colors. Is it olive green? Or Brown? Another commenter mentioned color-picker apps, so I’m chasing that down as we speak.
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Use a color picker! It can show RGB values. This one is pretty simple (Windows only): https://annystudio.com/software/colorpicker/
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Thanks @IndySales I’m chasing for an app right now. Color Name is sorta working but it’s spitting out a lot of names that seem to be brand names, probably from paint companies. I will keep trying. I figured there had to be an app, I just hadn’t hit on the nomenclature yet!
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Thanks, Jay, that’s the cheapest I’ve seen, I was always under the impression it was only sunglasses and/or super-expensive with my regular prescription. I’ve seen color-corrected images and it didn’t cause me to freak out and cry or anything, it’s just a slight shift and separation between colors that wasn’t there before. There are menus in some video games and photoshop so designers can view the screen as a color-blind person. TBH whenever the interwebs is full of videos tied to a product I run the other way!
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Unless you’re selling old postage stamps it’s probably not worth trying to name the colour of an object with precision. Olive green, Invisible green, Goose Turd green, Scheele’s green, Stroudley’s Improved Engine Green, Arsenic green (that’s the green that killed Napoleon), Malachite green, Brunswick green, Khaki, Apple green, Lime green, Celadon…
…also, there’s two different sorts of red cones available for the eyeball, and one type makes objects appear pinker (I’ve got the other sort, which gives a less vivid red). Plus, there’s some people running around with four types of cone, and they get to see colours that aren’t available to the rest of us.
…and, if nobody reads the descriptions anyway*, why bother? They’ve got your photos, and nobody uses a cathode ray tube to view the inter webs these days, so the old problem of adjusting the display or relying on the RGB values for colour matching has gone away.
*allegedly, and I’m not surprised.
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Unless you’re selling old postage stamps it’s probably not worth trying to name the colour of an object with precision.
This is the right answer. We never get precise with colors other than the basic base colors: red, green, blue, yellow, etc. Buyers will argue if you get too detailed about a color. We still struggle with calling a shirt black and someone say its a deep dark gray.
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@jay @antique-frog Yes I think “catalogue colors” are pretty annoying, and I avoid them on principle lol. I am just hoping another color-blind person on the forum has figured out a workaround to name the basic colors in the items specifics and other keywords. I just want to push “do the best you can” a little further than where I am at right now. Some combination of glasses and apps might get me into a better place, so I will gamble some dollars on those.
To be clear, I regularly mistake brown for green, pink for grey, purple for navy. It’s very binary. That is the crux of the problem/opportunity: I know vintage clothes/textiles/transportation items when I see and touch them. I just want to get the basic description right.
Color-blind people do adapt in other ways: I can usually tell if a Hot Wheels car is “Antifreeze” or a 70s Dodge muscle car is “Plum Crazy” by context and comparison. (e.g. I know the yellow light is the one in the middle of the traffic signal, though it doesn’t look a whole lot different than some streetlights.)
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A bit of a kludge would be to use the Red Green Blue values of a representative area of a photo of the object. This should enable a gross discrimination between colours.
These are available via programs like GIMP and Photoshop, and I think the computer operating system may have a way of checking the values of the screen display. Just checked- on a Mac it’s the digital colour meter in the utilities folder. The values go between 0 and 256 for each.
So, vivid blue (Crayola Navy Blue) is Red 25 Green 116 Blue 210. Tyrian purple is R 102 G 2 B 60. Teal is R 0 G 128 B 128 (I’m getting these values from the Wiki articles.)
According to the Mac DCM the Wiki patch for the Tyrian purple is R 101 G 6 B 60, so it looks like it’s close enough to be usable.
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@antique-frog thanks I will look into that on my Mac. Listed some clothes yesterday and oddly the item specific for color was required on some, but not others, so that cuts down my INAD risk by a bit.
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