Rick Robbins wrote:
>
>If they are scanning the 3x3 area on a car, why can't you take a
>digital pix of your bike and either:
>1) import the image color into their program for analysis
>or:
>2) take a pix of your bike, and using glossy pix stock, edit the
>color on a 3x3 sheet of stock, edit the color in a software program
>to be as near as possible to your bike's color, and then print and
>have them scan it?
>
>Seems like with all the technology out there today, it shouldn't be
>too hard to overcome this.
Hoping not to go too far off topic (sorry Dale),
a. The lighting used and reflectiveness of the paint alters the color image.
b. Digital cameras alter the color image.
c. The monitor and printer alters the color image.
d. The paper used alters the color image.
By placing more steps in the path of a color match, you make it more difficult... use the Mark1 eyeball.
Roy "Digital or Analog" Drinkwater
Lititz, PA