deefstes wrote
Neon Gecko wrote
I asked my paint supplier if they could mix colour along the cyan-magenta-yellow-black system a while ago and was told that the system is only used in the printing industry. I then thought that I'd get clever and ask about the Pantone Colour system, but was told the same thing, which is a pity. It'd be handy if someone develop the system in the paint industry.
So what system is used in the paint industry then? If I remember correctly from kindergarten, when dealing with paint, the primary colours are Red, YELLOW and Blue as opposed to Red, GREEN and Blue. If the system used for mixing paint is as simple as mixing various amounts of Red, Yellow and Blue, surely there must a way to convert an RGB value to an RYB value. I know it's a fairly straight forward bit of math to convert between RGB and CMYK.
Yep that is correct. Red, yellow and blue to get your colour and black and white to set your hue. Obviously things get a little more complicated with more specialised coatings such as metallics and pearls, but that is the basic principal.
I have no knowledge of commercially available software that works along those lines. I use Corel Draw to give my customers a pre-visualisation of what their guitar would look like. Now if they supported a paint system then it would be awesome, but until they do I have to go to a photographic outlet and have a print made to take along to my supplier as a mixing guide. Inkjet and laser printers simply don't offer an exact match as far as colour is concerned, regardless of what sort of paper you use. Like I say it would be dead handy if someone developed software along those lines...
