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From: "Ben A L Jemmett" <bal.jemmett@ukonline.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Full color Text Adventures?
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"Ian Trider" <iantri@gmx.net> wrote in message
news:3c704649@MAIL.mhogaming.com...
> I am red-green colourblind and it doesn't affect my ability to see the
> colours red or green, however when one is put on top of another it is
> virtually impossible to distinguish, like somehow the red disappears into
> the green or vice-versa, whichever there is less of.

Colour blindness or colour deficiency?  I've red-green colour-blind,
blue-violet colour-deficient, and I have the same problem as you describe
with red and green; however, I can't tell the difference between the two
easily even when quite separate.  Sometimes it's obvious, other times I see
them as just shades of some random brownish colour.  It depends on the exact
shades, I guess.  Dark green and red look very similar, as do light green
and yellow.  Curiously, orange is usually easy to spot...

> For example, when I was doing some graphics work butchering.. er.. editing
a
> scanned in copy of a brochure to remove some text I had to use Photoshop's
> clone tool to remove some RED TEXT from a green leafy background.

In Photoshop, I tend to switch to RGB colour mode, then hide the channel I'm
not interested in, and possibly play around with inverting the colours so
there's more contrast when the display switches to shades of grey.

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Regards,
Ben A L Jemmett.
(http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ben.jemmett/, http://www.deltasoft.com/)


