For me, if something looks like it could be two different colors, it's usually the other one. Like today i was sorting laundry and there was a shirt i hadn't seen before. It looked brown, but a weird brown. I dunno how else to describe it. It could have been green, but it really looked like a brown. I asked my mother and she said it was green. This usually happens with purples that are actually blues, and reds that are actually brown.

In art I use my knowledge of the color wheel, or find something I know to be that color and use the selector tool on it. The only time it's been a problem in real life has been when I need a specific color clothing, like for a job, and I end up asking for help, as embarrassing as that is -_-.

In clothing, i wear a lot of khaki, black, and white. It's hard to screw those colors up XD with art, my colored pencils are in a certain order. And if that doesn't help, i just try out each color in question on a scrap piece of paper til i find the right one X3

When I purchase clothing that doesn't have to be a particular color, ie. my taste, I find out what color it is and make sure it's different enough looking to where I can identify it as such. I know rules about color combinations in clothing so as not to be tacky. Although I do wear a lot of black... that may be a subconscious choice on the part of my limitation @_@.

Maybe XD

honestly i cant think of any situations other than doing art where it would be a problem

Clothes selection, paint selection, someone giving you directions based off a color, trying to describe something to someone who just asks you to tell them the color (happens more often than you'd think). These are just a few examples. All of them incredibly embarrassing @_@.

pffft.... my clothes rarely match and i CAN see colors... screw that.... lmao

and paint... hmm... im not sure @_@

I painted a whole room green once thinking it was a beige. That was awkward.

poor bunny @_@ *hugs*

*giggles and hugs back*

me... well i just blurt out the color i think it is... then someone just tells me its the wrong color... i then tell them i am colorblind and they always ask "really?"... also, when i had a router problem, i HAD to tell the guy i was colorblind cuz the router has a light red and bright orange colors... my brother had to help me on that one cuz i honestly could just see orange, not red...

but yeah... seeing that you sometimes DO need to distinguish colors in some jobs, i think its a good idea to put that in a resume or somthn... *shrugs*

=P

oh an i forgot to mention... if i need to color somthn, i ALWAYS look at the name of the color... so i need color pencils and crayons that have the name of the colors... if they dont have the colors, i simply cant work much with them, and its either a guessing game or ask someone for help... *giggles and hugs*

=P

At school, I just use digital readouts. Like a digital pH reader instead of the colored strip. I flip my monitor to monochrome to see details in things when I'm looking at art. When I'm doing art? I label the heck out of everything!

okay... this is going to be a really odd example.. and i'm not sure i can explain it... i just know it works for me...

you remember my spiked goggles with the red lenses? I generally try to wear sunglasses with red lenses because my eyes are a bit more sensitive to light i think. Normally i don't let this on because it's not a big deal but when when its bad it's bad. I found that red lenses work best for me. I used to use the goggles as sunglasses, but stopped because my big reason was i had no peripheral vision.

my solution to this was that, i had to be a allot more consciously aware. I think that the none colour blind take colour for granted. I had to enter into a whole different way of thinking. So, with the glasses or goggles, I looked around for the slightest of details to reference. In my stop light example, green was the most clear. So if i saw something that was dark it meant go.Yellow was lighter, so i knew i should slow down. And red wasn't visible at all. I learned that I should stop when there wasn't anything there.

I also use the goggles for things like soldering. Again, I had to use conscious thought for this, and look at the rest of my wires and reference them to diagrams. Once i had an understanding of one wire colour, usually the green, I based my observations off that. "This wire is green, but that one could be a light green or maybe a yellow. Well green is a neutral colour, and so is brown. Cardboard is a light colour brown usually. So lets compare this questionable light green cord to the shades of this cardboard box."

Again it's odd, and that's how i operate with the red lenses. I'm not sure if it even helps at all.

But with you're art, I do have a suggestion as far as shading. You mention you find something that you know is that colour as reference then use the eye dropper tool. well once you have all your colours in the pic and it's a flat colour, create a second layer to go beneath it. Then, on that second layer lay down your shades using shades of grey. Make your top layer, slightly transparent, and keep adding in your shades of gray till you feel satisfied.

anyways sorry i couldn't be more help.

im not color blind....but i had an eye injury that caused the right side of my field of vision to be red for a week or so, so this made everything that was green, blue, and purple appear black and everything yellow, orange and red appear red or orange on that side......it was frustrating, i had to look at things out of my left eye to tell what color they were DX

I never knew that :0 <snuggles>

Colour wheel, RGB values, and just asking others is how I overcome my problem. Though, my issue with colour is very different, it's not a problem with my eyes to see colour, it is a problem with my brain to interpret colour. I tend to see in grayscale mostly (not completely), but I can make out the colours, it's just when there's similar shades, I can't see the difference of one from another, mostly between green and blue, and blue and purple, red and violet, and dull red & blue colours and gray.

Me and my friends play DnD, and we have these tokens for enemies that are coloured and numbered, and I constantly get the colours wrong, because they're soft and not vibrant. Our DM had to make the monster tokens shaped because I think it's two or three of us who are colour blind.

I remember, I didn't always used to have this problem with sight, it happened when I was young, and my dad pushed me down the staircase and I hit my head at the bottom and was knocked unconscious. It took me a week to gain back a "normal" vision that wasn't dull, or fuzzy.

I use the "eye dropper" tool when colouring, so i can just click on the original picture where the colour that I need is and then just work from there. If I don't have a visual ref sheet to work from I use the colour wheel to pick a colour, since I know where each colour should be. Sometimes I do accidentally pick red instead of orange, or blue instead of purple...but it's usually not that big a deal.

Well I'm an assistant warehouse manager. Mostly making paperworks like bills or landings. Seeing colors are not necessary.
But in fact I'll never get a driver licence.