RGB transtint

[woodchucker]

Hey guys trying to put an order in for Transtint on sale at Rockler.
Any of you ever buy the Red Green and Blue to mix and make your own tints?


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Jeff

[Amy Guarino]

I bought a bottle of Trans-Tint Cordovan some years back and mixed it
in alcohol with some powdered dyes. I had a six-foot strip of oak 1x2
with a slightly altered dye mix every two inches until I (kind of)
matched the color of some furniture we had. So you can mix the colors.
But your mention of "Red, Green and Blue" suggests that you think dyes
mix the way pixels do on your monitor. I'm no expert, but I'm pretty
sure that's incorrect. As a f'rinstance, red plus green will yield
yellow on your monitor, but not with dyes.

[woodchucker]

On 5/15/2013 11:17 PM, Amy Guarino wrote:
> I bought a bottle of Trans-Tint Cordovan some years back and mixed it
> in alcohol with some powdered dyes. I had a six-foot strip of oak 1x2
> with a slightly altered dye mix every two inches until I (kind of)
> matched the color of some furniture we had. So you can mix the colors.
> But your mention of "Red, Green and Blue" suggests that you think dyes
> mix the way pixels do on your monitor. I'm no expert, but I'm pretty
> sure that's incorrect. As a f'rinstance, red plus green will yield
> yellow on your monitor, but not with dyes.

I am thinking they are the primary colors.
I have used transtint in the past and I still have some.
Was thinking I could get more versatility and come up with the shades of
brown that I want, be it reddish brown, or yellow brown, or orange brown
just by using the rgb... I guess I was thinking wrong.



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Jeff

[FrozenNorth]

On 5/15/2013 11:17 PM, Amy Guarino wrote:

Assuming they are like paints, probably a safe assumption, red, blue and
yellow would be the primary colours.

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Froz...


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[Amy Guarino]

You'll get different colors when you mix them, to be sure, but think
of the difference this way: If I "mix" full values of red, green and
blue on my monitor, I get white. It's a different process. Inkjet
printers typically use Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black.

[dadiOH]

No, you weren't thinking wrong.

There are two sets of primary colors: additive and subtractive.

The additive primaries are red, green and blue. However, the blue is not
what many people think of as "blue". They are used when dealing with light
oriented things such as photography. A proper mix of all three creates
white light.

The subtractive primaries are those you probably learned in grade school as
red, blue and yellow. However those really aren't the colors; the colors
are actually magenta, cyan and yellow. They are used more in applying color
*to* things as in painting and printing. A proper mix of the three yields
black.

Get the subtractive primaries and you are good to go. You might want to add
black as it is easier to create a shade (greyed down color) with it than by
adding the correct complementary primary.

More here...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_colors

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dadiOH
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If you use equal parts of red, blue, and yellow stains you will get brown.

[Father Haskell]

On May 15, 9:52 pm, woodchucker <nos...@nospam.com> wrote:

Outcome will depend on which red, green, and blue you start with.