The new site, Facebook page and the long awaited Color Cloud™ application are nearly all done and ready to be rolled out! This has been a very time consuming project for myself, at times stressful, often leading to long sleepless nights and many days of starting blankly at the screen thinking “what did I just get myself into” knowing that if I turned back, it would have all been a waste. (not to mention the money spent up to this point to redesign, relocate and develop all of this)
Due to all of the time spent on the sites and application, I’ve had to postpone releasing the Adobe Photoshop Actions until I can make some changes to clean up the functions and to create proper tutorial videos on how to use each one. However, the Color Cloud™ application is nearly ready to release (hopefully before October) and meets or beats all of my initial expectations for the application. Having spent MANY YEARS as a professional color technician for multiple professional labs around the country, I found myself looking for an application that would allow me to work in the way that we do at professional labs. Despite my expert level of color judgement, the chromatic adaptation of our eyes (ability to “adjust” incorrect colors to what we know) caused me to have less-than-great color and consistency when correcting my own images at home. Basically, our eyes “see” what we know the color should be, thus we cannot properly judge the color and exposure correctly, even with a perfectly calibrated display. This problem is solved with the Color Cloud™ application which “floats” above Lightroom, Photoshop, Aperture or any other application, allowing us to make comparisons to known good color and exposure skin tones as well as other sample images so that we waste less time, have fewer “surprise” images and in turn our CLIENTS are more satisfied which makes us happy and rich. (At least we hope so.)
I will have a demo video up of the application very soon, please check back here for that YouTube link.