Reaper Power Palette

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Re: Reaper Power Palette

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Does it paint the minis for me too?! :bonk: :mrgreen:
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Re: Reaper Power Palette

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czlowiek.morze wrote:
pae wrote:I have to wonder if they were using a correctly calibrated monitor when they determined the RGB values of their paints.
The monitor has nothing to do with it. It is just a program that works on zeros and ones saved on a hard disk :-)
mahon wrote:Asking you to hold a bottle of paint next to the screen and comparing it to displayed examples to find the closest match.
This program shows you, what among reaper paints are the closest match. If this program had a database of all producers paint recipes, it would be more accurate. Of course Reaper has no intention to show you that GW paint is the one you are looking for :wink:
If I take a monitor that is calibrated to a temperature that is way too blue, then everything will have a blue cast to it on the monitor. Something that looks turquoise on the screen may have RGB values that are more truly green than blue-green, so if I'm matching a paint swatch to a screen that's too blue, the RGB values I'm matching too will actually not contain as much in the blue as they'd really need to, simply because I didn't calibrate my monitor correctly.

So yes, the monitor they used when determining the RGB values of their paints (by holding up paint swatches to a monitor and making the comparison) sure as hell has something to do with it.
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Yep, pae, I am glad I am not the only one who thinks monitors have something to do with it :)
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pae wrote: So yes, the monitor they used when determining the RGB values of their paints (by holding up paint swatches to a monitor and making the comparison) sure as hell has something to do with it.
so now the producers have wrong monitor display settings :lolsign: :doh:
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which is possible... :roll:
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