Eye Color Fatigue and Selecting Paint

We're trying to, you know, get the best color match for your car for your car. One of the things you got to consider is what they call eye color fatigue. And I think we've all seen those tests where, you know, you have like a big bright red screen and then they take it away and suddenly, you know, your eyes are all unadjusted to color. You're seeing greens or blues or, you know, so understanding how that affects your eyes and getting a good match on your car is Terry Wright and he's gonna explain, you know, a little bit about eye color fatigue. Well, mark, if you spend any amount of time looking at choosing or tainting a color, you'll find that you'll talk yourself in a color that looks good. But really doesn't this can happen really quickly. And what's happening is our eyes are becoming fatigued colors will start to sort of burn into your eye. And when you shift your eye from the color you're looking at to the color you're trying to match your brain will kind of blend together and it'll look really good looks the same and you find that um, you'll think that's really good. You go ahead and paint the car and come back later and what the heck happened there? That doesn't look good at all. Um so your eyes are getting fatigued, they're kind of burning that uh the colors into your, into your eyes and, and blending together. So, um this can happen so quick, 10, 15 minutes if you're sitting and looking at a color that long, I really recommend that you just kind of take a break, walk away. Yep. Let your eyes kind of get used to your surroundings and come back to it and many times you come back to it and go. That looks terrible. How did I even think? Yeah, let's, let's go ahead and look at a couple of examples of what I'm talking about and I'm gonna show you uh a screen with a blue triangle on it and I'm gonna have you stare at it and then I'm gonna give you 10, 15 seconds and I want you to just kind of look at it and don't try not to shift your eyes around, try to focus on one point, maybe a tip of the triangle or whatever and I'm gonna take it away and I want you to tell me what you see when I take it away, it should be the opposite of the color you see. OK. So I'd like to like you to go ahead and look at this, this triangle. I have and just kind of focus on one point on it. Try not to shift your eyes. So I'm gonna give you 10, 15 seconds just to look at it just so it can burn into your eyes. Try not to have your eyes shift and I'm gonna take it away. And I want you to tell me I don't want you to think too much about it. Just tell me what you see when I take it away. Ok, I see, you know, for, for a few, for just fractions of a second, it was like a brighter triangle, but it was like kind of pinkish yellowy kind of color. Exactly. Exactly. So just that shorter time, That blue got burnt in your eyes. Now, that was only a few seconds. Imagine if you're sitting there looking at a color for minutes, you know, 20 minutes and you're trying to stare at one panel and stare at another panel and try to make the color decision between them. Yep. Now I have another one I want you to look at too. OK. So, um, what it is, it's, it, it is a, it is a flag and it's a flag with black, green and yellow. It's American flag and there's a dot Right in the middle of it. I'd like you to stare at that dot And we'll give you 10, 15 seconds of that and I'm gonna do the same thing. I'm gonna take it away to a blank white screen and see what you see there again. Try not to shift your eyes, try to focus on that point. OK? I'm gonna take it away and you tell me what you see it. Uh again, it, it was, it's brief but I saw the American flag in the correct color, the colors, red, white and blue, red, white and blue flag and it went away pretty quick. I mean, if you sat and looked at it longer, it'll stay longer. But uh that's just an example how quick your eyes can be, that image can be burned in your eyes. So just take a break. If you're working on a color, a while or looking at or selecting colors, like picking colors out, take a break, walk away and then come back to it. We'll see and, and you know, along the same lines, uh what in past professions, you know, just the walls around you. That's, that's a great point. And you know, if you, if you have like red wall and you're staring at the wall and you turn to look at your car that you're working with, not only you're affected by the reflected light, but your eyes adjust to the red because your eyes are always trying to find a neutral. So when you turn to look at the car, then now the car is like a different color. That's a great point. I've, I've dealt with painters where they're wearing a bright red shirt and can't get their colors to match just because they're surroundings and that color reflecting off your shirt. So, yeah, you're right. Hm. Yeah. So, yeah, understanding how your eyes are affected, you know, in making those critical color connections and trying to find a perfect match. You got to understand how the colors around you or staring at the same color can affect how you perceive really and especially really close colors because your eye will want to blend them together. You're right. Yep. So it's important, just know what that might be happening. Yeah. So it's a good tip for anybody if you know, if you're making those kind of critical decisions and in, in matching up colors is to sometimes give your eyes a break and not necessarily turn and look at, you know, something with a strong color to it, but to just literally give your eyes a break and then take it a fresh look at it. Uh, and you'll have a better understanding of how those matches are occurring.