I feel I must apologise to Bunny,
Sir, I am sorry for my attitude. I discovered I have flu and I am perticularly grumpy at the moment. You've run a good GB and the mockups are close enough not to really matter. My disappointment at the visibility on my home PC with poorer lighting conditions appears to be due to the closeness in colour intensity between the orange and light grey and the relatively thin legends on the keys.
It is acceptable at my office in better light. I need to lighten up a bit in general (IRL too).
Best Regards,
Oobly.
Hey, it takes a very grounded individual to apologize on the internet. Hats off to you, sir.
I for one appreciate the effort you made with your alternate mock up. I (personally, to my eyes) think it does match up with some of the pictures of the set in lower light conditions. Maybe it would of been better received in the interest check phase though.
my point wasnt about the alt mockup not being accurate in certain lighting conditions
just that i cant make mockups for all lighting conditions, where would it end
the mock up is obviously meant to represent the set properly lit
it is there to show the set in the best possible light
obviously everyone knows if you throw it in bad lighting on incandescent light that will cause it to look different
the only part of the posts that bothered me is the insinuation of 2 things
that we tried to be misleading with the mockups, and that we didnt act professionally
in response to the comment about colour calibration
i have a regularly professionally calibrated panel, and i also regularly use this on all my other panels
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0055MBQOM/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_S_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=251GNFHC05EOF&coliid=IK5X3HHQUQK77&psc=1on top of that, i actually have the colour chips in front of me, as well as sample keys in almost all colour chips
we aimed to match these colours exactly, and certainly across all my set ups and screens, the mockups match the physical keys sat in front in me
that being said, i also dont think its fair to judge a mockup based on poor lighting or incandescent light, the only way this would be a fair comparison is i guess if you intentionally drastically lowered the brightness of you panel, or added a yellow tint to it or something, which i guess, if people wanna see how a set will look under worse lighting, they are more than capable of doing
this next comment is directed just at oobly
sir you dont need to apologise and what not, you are welcome to your opinion, however, based on yoru comments what i will say is this
you clearly have had issues with what you consider misleading mockups on several occasions judging by what you said, we clearly posted the colours and reference numbers we used on this gb, if you personally prefer the deskthority scans, they are always there for you to cross reference, it may take a couple of minutes, but then at least you dont end up in a situation where you are disappointed, and im sure it would take a fraction of the time for you to do that than to make the above posts after the fact
we used to use those scans for mockups, however i wasnt happy with results on certain sets, with the final product not being accurate to their scans, however accurate their method is, so we take steps to make sure we conveyed this gb as accurately as possible, and personally, i think we did that, im sorry you feel differently