Trynforpar Loc: The Villages, Florida

Greetings fellow members. I was a landscape photographer for several years and gave it up about 10 years ago due to time constraints and job demands. I’m now retired looking to get back into it. I’m seeking some guidance for a photo editing program that might offer some assistance for colorblindness. I have used Lightroom in the past and may go back to it but I would appreciate your thoughts. Thank you in advance

bdk Loc: Sanibel Fl.

there is someone in the Villages thats a photographer and color blind. He belongs to one of the camera clubs.
For the life of me I dont remember who it was. If I was you id ask at one of the clubs. It would be cool to have someone that could help you in person.

terryMc Loc: Arizona's White Mountains

Photoshop guru Bruce Fraser (now deceased) used to preach "color by the numbers," and claimed to have a blind friend (not just color blind) whom he taught to get near-perfect color using Photoshop by just selecting an area and typing in the numbers for specific colors. Not something I ever could quite get my head around, though.

I had a good friend (also now deceased) who used Corel Paint Shop Pro. He had a deficiency in only a couple of colors, but he would have his wife look a the picture, tell him where the color was off, and then again after corrections until she approved. He learned to recognize these colors and which way to move to get them right, and eventually relied less and less on outside help. He sold fine art gallery prints.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Curious - If the person was blind, how did they "select an area" to color.

E.L.. Shapiro Loc: Ottawa, Ontario Canada

To the OP:

You might want to talk to your ophthalmologist or optometrist. My limited understanding is that colorblindness cannot be remedied or cured with special glasses but in some cases, depending on your specific issues, some special lenses made with glass have certain minerals, that can act as filters and could somewhat mitigate the condition in certain color ranges. I do not know if any of this technology can be integrated into editing software or a monitor screen.

Just an idea with no actual knowledge. I wonder if an experecd technician can set up an automated color standard, much like auto-white balance or auto-color correct on simple software that will get you well into the ballpark.

The only experience I can call on is yer ag when I ha an in-house (analog) color lab in my studio. I hired expereince printers and color-correctors who had long-time previous experience in black and white custom printing. A few were great a composition and production by had difficulty with color correction. So we did the test and two ofhte the candidates were indeed colorblind. Sadly, the doctors, at the time, had no cure or workaround. Fortunately, we still were running a back-and-white darkroom then.

Don't be discouraged. Many great photoghaers outsource their lab work and just concentrate on shooting. If someone can do the color management part of the editing- or just become the NEW Ansil and work in monochrome!

Judy795

My husband is so colorblind he would never be able to edit his photos. B and W he is pretty good.

JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco

Calibrate your monitor and use a custom white balance. Then you should be very close to accurate colors.

terryMc Loc: Arizona's White Mountains

I don't remember. He explained it all in a book back in the early 90s. I think it was more of a "Look, even a blind person can do it my way" kind of thing.

bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

You didn't say how long ago you used Lightroom. Automatic color correction used to stink. I don't remember when it changed, but one of the first things in the Lightrooms that benefited from AI/"Machine Learning" was improvements to the "Auto" button in the Develop module. Get a trial copy or find someone in The Villages that has a current subscription and test it.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

W9OD Loc: Wisconsin

I am a retired optometrist. You could try anaglyph glasses with the green lens removed. Use just the filtered red lens over one eye. That worked for a patient who did a horrible job adjusting filtering for film processing. I fit him with a red contact lens, solved the problem. Actually, he used the lens for a couple of weeks and was able to make the filtering normal by remembering how much change there was from previous tries.

photoman43

I am red green and blue grey color blind. I can see colors, so I am just partially color blind. I learned about this when I took my military physicals back in the 1960s.

I make sure I set things correctly in the camera, like white balance, and other settings to get the film look I want--maybe Vivid or Standard. In post processing, I make almost no color changes as I do not trust my ability to properly see all of them. This approach would work for just about any post processing program.

When I have an image with complicated color issues or dramatic colors, I use the Nikon software to view the RAW file and make a Tiff to use in another post processing program. I shoot with Nikon cameras. This approach could work for you too. Just use the raw processor supported by your camera manufacturer.

Don, the 2nd son Loc: Crowded Florida

VITAL!! As well as cool.

Beenthere

Not to be a "smart ass" concentrate on high quality "monochrome"

photoman43

I should have added, that I now am using DXO-PL7 elite edition to process my raw files from my Nikon cameras.