Emerald RGBA Photos

[JediXIX]

I've had a little bit of time playing with some settings with my new Emerald RGBA, and to me the colours that work the best with the Amber diode are greens and of course oranges..... So I've taken a couple of quick comparison photos to show some of the colours best I can....

I played with a 'real' emerald green (to my eye, the US emerald green forum colour has a very similar shade to CG), this setting is G255 A35 (left), and this pic is next to a CG saber (right).. To me, this kind of green shade is closer to Luke's saber in ROTJ....


The orange that surprised me just how much I love it is R255 A191 (left).... Its a real 'blood orange' and very bright, would make an awesome sith blade.... This has sealed the deal for me, as in the future I want a dedicated orange saber, and this is by far my favourite orange I've seen so far.... I've taken this pic next to a PO (right), yep the forum dark orange colour, so you can see a comparison....


With a few tests I got similar colours with RGB(W), but I'll continue to play with the RGBA settings and see what other pics I can take to share..... G255 A255 is a nice lime green, didn't have time to get that pic today, some time soon.... I also want to play with yellows later also....

If anyone else wants to post photos of Emerald RGBA colours, please do (Lord Canterbury, that awesome gold blade photo you posted maybe)

cheers 

[Drahcir]

I've really been considering getting a RGBA saber because the yellow to red spectrum is by far my favorite colors for sabers. I'd be interested in seeing what colors people get. My saber in my forum picture is a goldenrod color I got using red, green, and white LEDs.

[hazard502]

Nice side x side comparisons.  Lord Canterbury and cstoehr could definitely add some nice RGBA pics as well.  So what does this mean for your possible orange lightsaber?  Another PO one, or a 2ch emerald with G+A?  The orange you made with G255 A191 does look very nice indeed.

[JediXIX]

I've really been considering getting a RGBA saber because the yellow to red spectrum is by far my favorite colors for sabers. I'd be interested in seeing what colors people get. My saber in my forum picture is a goldenrod color I got using red, green, and white LEDs.

Colours are subjective I guess.... with my quick tests, for me, I'm sure i could get similar colours with just the RGB channels, but I'm curious and just wanted to see 'with my own eyes' how the Amber diode adds to the mix..... I remember your goldenrod colour pics, they look awesome, and next time I want to play with yellows and see what comparison photos I can get......

Nice side x side comparisons.  Lord Canterbury and cstoehr could definitely add some nice RGBA pics as well.  So what does this mean for your possible orange lightsaber?  Another PO one, or a 2ch emerald with G+A?  The orange you made with G255 A191 does look very nice indeed.

Has to be R+A at least, because that blood orange colour is sooo nice...... I think you could get a similar dark orange with R+G, so maybe that, but at the moment my dedicated orange has to be that 'blood orange'..... for me its really that much more pleasing to my eye than PO or FO.....

[Lord Canterbury]

Well, speak of the Devil and he shall appear.  

"Gold"

R:  255
G:  255
B:  0
A:  255

[Caylem]

That yellow looks amazing! Points for both of you, nice colors comparison.

[hazard502]

Has to be R+A at least, because that blood orange colour is sooo nice...... I think you could get a similar dark orange with R+G, so maybe that, but at the moment my dedicated orange has to be that 'blood orange'..... for me its really that much more pleasing to my eye than PO or FO.....

Pardon me I totally misread, not G+A but yes a R+A 2ch.  That would be quite a unique order with a lovely blade to it.  Now the challenge of which lightsaber to go with it

[Lord Canterbury]

I'm currently enjoying the following settings for my outright Sith DWG:

Blade

R:  255
G:  0
B:  0
A:  0


Pulse

R:  255
G:  0
B:  0
A:  255

Timing - 3 / 3 / 3 /3

FOC

R:  255
G:  255
B:  0
A:  255


PS - Been thinking a lot about what I would eventually get when I order a Graflex CE (the last saber on my absolute Have To Have list).

Wanted to see what you all thought about it.

Not getting a 4 Channel because that Hilt will mostly be for Display and I'm personally not interested in putting a Red or Yellow or whatever color Blade on the Lightsaber handed down to Luke Skywalker.

So I am thinking a 2 Channel with Blue & Silver for the LEDs.

A lot of times - especially before Lucas went back and CG'd the heck out of it, the Graflex blade looked mostly White with a faint Blue glow to it.

So I was thinking something like this would work well (don't have a B + S to mix yet so I am just guessing here):

Blade

B:  204
W:  255

Pulse

B:  102
W:  255

Timing - 3 / 3 / 3 /3

FOC

B:  0
W:  255

[Racona Nova]

That EG looks quite similar to my RGBW Emerald colour...US default was G255 B18 when I received mine.
But I think you mixed the sides up - to me, CG is definitely the left one, and EG the right

And that Orange looks really bloody! Very menacing You've definitely made the right decision with that RGBA Driver.

[Groovidad]

I must wait 2 more days for my RGBA setup.  JediXIX, your photo comparisons are great! Nice to see the pics of color experimentation....and, My Lord, that fiery gold is going to be my first tweak!  Points to all!  Thanks for sharing!

[JediXIX]

That EG looks quite similar to my RGBW Emerald colour...US default was G255 B18 when I received mine.
But I think you mixed the sides up - to me, CG is definitely the left one, and EG the right

And that Orange looks really bloody! Very menacing You've definitely made the right decision with that RGBA Driver.

Yea, its not easy to get the colour to represent in a photo..... The pic is definitely Emerald RGBA settings on left CG on right..... When I've taken pics of GC on its own it can appear more yellowish, but to my eye its more white-ish or blue-ish, and when I was watching ROTJ the other day i paused and compared Luke's blade to a CG saber and to me there is a difference, cud be just my eyes, haha, or maybe my TV, lol..... I just love the green with more yellow in it either way, and this was my fav setting with RGBA, probably shouldn't call it emerald green, maybe grassy green, lol..... I also got a similar colour in the past with RGB(W) by adding R into the mix, just seems cleaner with RGBA, but thats subjective also I guess..... My Emerald Archon arrived with G255 B10 for emerald green, so i guess US don't have an exact setting for that.....

[Racona Nova]

I see Yeah, it's really tough to get an accurate picture of a colour...never thought that there is a more intense shade of green than CG

[cstoehr]

Yea, its not easy to get the colour to represent in a photo..... The pic is definitely Emerald RGBA settings on left CG on right..... When I've taken pics of GC on its own it can appear more yellowish, but to my eye its more white-ish or blue-ish, and when I was watching ROTJ the other day i paused and compared Luke's blade to a CG saber and to me there is a difference, cud be just my eyes, haha, or maybe my TV, lol..... I just love the green with more yellow in it either way, and this was my fav setting with RGBA, probably shouldn't call it emerald green, maybe grassy green, lol..... I also got a similar colour in the past with RGB(W) by adding R into the mix, just seems cleaner with RGBA, but thats subjective also I guess..... My Emerald Archon arrived with G255 B10 for emerald green, so i guess US don't have an exact setting for that.....

I agree with you JediXIX about the difficulty photographing the colors.  Deep colors like BR, GB, and CG are easy to photograph and look like what my eyes see, but too often colors that are a mixture of color channels just don't look right in my pictures.  Due to the LED brightness, my camera tends to wash out the color no matter what settings I choose.  The background and lighting are important too.  I use the green felt on my pool table as a background for a lot of photos, but for these I found the white walls actual help more to give a better presentation of these particular colors.  A lot of colors in other posts used mostly combinations of R, B, G.  For these as much as possible, I chose combinations that included the Amber channel.

My RGBA Emerald Dark War Glaive with 100% Amber produces a rather standard Yellow Orange color.



This picture shows a combination of G255 A255 to produce Lime Green.


One might think that mixing equal parts of Blue and Amber would produce a green color.  In actual fact the combination of B255 A255 produces this Lavender color.


The combination of R255 B255 A255 produces this fabulous Pink.


The combination of G255 B255 A255 produces this Pastel Blue.


The combination of R255 A255 is an alternative to way to produce Pyrestone Orange.

[JediXIX]

+1 cstoehr..... Excellent pics to represent those colour settings..... they look great against the corner white walls...... 

[hazard502]

+1 cstoehr..... Excellent pics to represent those colour settings..... they look great against the corner white walls......  

I'll second that, great contributions cstoehr.  

+1

I'm quite convinced on an RGBA, maybe one day? It would def be in series with an illuminated AV switch, got to have me my lit AV.