Mica Pictures

[China-Lilly]

While I think the image is useful to a a degree, because of the huge difference between computer monitors. That's why a description coupled with a picture would be the best method to accurately represent the shades - because while people can get a clearer idea of the shade from the description, they will also be guided by the picture.

I think it's important to have shade descriptions to start with, rather than requesting descriptions one by one, because if I'm only interested in iridescent shades or duotones, the pictures don't show any of that. Or if a shade is intensely shimmery.

A good description would be:

*very* light champagne w/ a hint of peach, and gold and peach shimmer (great base shade)

or

true electric sapphire blue, high shimmer

or

looks white but goes on a light iridescnet blue w/ lavender shimmer

[China-Lilly]

I also think the pictures need to be consistant ... the size needs to be the same, the way that they are cropped should be the same, how they are photographed (ie in pot or loose) should be the same ...

and all the micas should be photographed on a white background and they need to be colour-adjusted if the background photographs as grey. If you take all the photos with the same amount of light or lightsource with each one, that should help the shades to display consistantly.

Digital photos tend need a slight amount of sharpening, so that will help with displaying sparkle or shimmer, but on the whole, it takes a very skilled photographer with a superior understanding of lighting to be able to do shine/sparkle well, so I still think descriptions would be most helpful.

Lastly, I don't think I like the coloured blocks on the titles - they actually compete with the shade in the photo. Even if you have a brilliant red shade, the shade will look less brillient next to another block of red.

Sorry to go on and on ... I work on a hair and beauty magazine, so have worked with photographing makeup a bit.

[Edward]

Thank you for your valuable insight and sharing your expertise.

I'm going very slow these days, but my goal is to re-do the sample page into several pages, one for each group of colors. The pages would be much smaller and load much faster. The descriptions would have to be written by Joan, as that's her area.

[Edward]

Thank you for your valuable insight and sharing your expertise.

I'm going very slow these days, but my goal is to re-do the sample page into several pages, one for each group of colors. The pages would be much smaller and load much faster. The descriptions would have to be written by Joan, as that's her area.

Some work is done on the color samples, each group on it's own page for faster loading, on white backgrounds for clarity, but still the descriptions will take a lot of work as they will have to be coded as image descriptions. That's a lot of typing! There's like a thousand of them!

[Joan & the crew]

:D Ed,

You have done a marvelous job on the new colors all nice and neat in the "Mica Colors" page. The little "jump to" is nice, as we only need to see what we are looking for..thanks a bunch for doing this for us.

I believe this will help alot with the colors..and I agree, the whole list of color descriptions is not something we want to do...we see pink as one color, and other folks think pink and think a whole different tone...

Thanks so much for all your hard work...your a great website designer.

Joan & the Sweetscents crew

[Joan]

Great news folks! If you havnt yet checked the area called "Mica Colors" you really should look at it..Ed our website designer has been working with the pictures in a very nice format, and has given the white background to all the pictures..

He has put a wonderful little "jump to" button on there, so if you want to see only the foundations, you click it onto foundations, and very quickly it takes you to those images.

Great work Ed! :D

Joan & The Crew