Gel Swatch Library app for iPhone and iPad
The Gel Swatch Library by Crossroads Motorsport, LLC., lets lighting production personnel browse, search, and compare more than 1,600 gel color filters made by the most popular manufacturers:
- Apollo
- GAM
- Lee
- Rosco
The Gel Swatch Library lets you:
- Search for gels by name or number
- Sort gels by number or how theyre arranged in the physical swatchbook (forwards or backwards in the swatch book)
- Compare similar and complementary colors
- Examine each colors detailed Spectral Energy Distribution graphs by turning the iPhone or iPod touch sideways
- View CMY/RGB percentages or DMX values for any color
- See the last 21 colors visited with the "Recently Viewed Colors" list
- Send comments directly to the developers with the "Feedback" button
We have added two great new features we think you will love:
1. Live view of colors in the gel item or gel comparison view with either front or back cameras.
2. Or see the same gel views over any photo in your library.
Both of these features are available as an in app purchase. Both of the features can be previewed for free with our pre-chosen colors (G-101 & G-305).
The Gel Swatch Library is perfect for:
- Theatres
- Churches
- Cruise ships
- Corporate events
- Educational theater programs
- Nightclubs
- Theatrical dealers
- And many more areas of the lighting world!
Pros and cons of Gel Swatch Library app for iPhone and iPad
Gel Swatch Library app good for
great app, just needs an fullscreen mode for the choosen colour(s) and a option to compare any colours. nevertheless its already a handy tool for lighting people!
Ive used this program on my last two designs, and I must say it has saved me so much time. The colour accuracy on the screen obviously cant replace the real thing, but for a quick look up, the speed and ease of searching cant be beat. The ability to find similar colours is great, although not quite perfect in my opinion.
Next I would love to see a similar app for gobos.
Very usefull app even though its a bit pricy! Also good for the environement, no more swatchbooks to carry around and lose.
Thank you for the cinegel update!
it is really useful app. The only improvement is probably compare function. When you try to compare 2 color, you loose a lot of time because you have to retype always what you want to compare with. How about a function that open a split window already and then you can choose on each side what you want.
This is the coolist thing I have seen for the iPhone thus far I bought it and downloaded it imeadiatly of course it only makes sense if you do theatre lighting but if you do it bodes well for the future of the iPhone in this field. Now if only apple would allow us to turn off the cell with out putting the phone in to airplane mode so that the wifi could still be used for DMX over wifi and other show control with out the sound guy getting all bent out of shape we might be on to something really cool. Oh yeah and the app performed as expected and should come in real handy.
This app is very well written and very versitile. Kudos to Wybron for really thinking this one out and putting many features into it.
Some bad moments
Why would I buy an iphone app that doesnt have all of the gels out there when I can go to the nearest shp and get all the swatch books for free and this is only an approximation of what the gel woudl ok like againt white paper, not in life.
I bought this app because my girlfriend had gotten it herself several months prior. When she got it an i believe when i first got it it had the ability to compare any 2 gels. but since then in one of the updates Wybron killed this functionality. now you can only compare what they deem "similar" or complementary. Frequently I need to see how 2 gels will react when mixed together, or more often i dont always have a gel that is "similar" (as they define it) so i need to compare a gel i do have with the target gel to see just how far i am. I am quite disappointed that this functionality was removed. What the app does still do it does well but i cant in good conscience recommend this to LD friends of mine as strongly as i once could. I dont see the benefit of removing functionality to replace it with a button that for me is essentially just an ad for another app i dont need or want.
