Gel Swatch Library App Reviews

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!

Nice App for lighting technicians and operators!!!

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.

This is great. Cant wait for updates so it has Apollo(which is the same as Rosco, I Know). I run a lighting rental house and this will be very usefull for suggesting colors and similiar colors to my customers. Price is a little high, for such a simple app, but thats our industry.

While this app is useful, I was dissapointed by the limited selection of gel companies (no Apollo). I was also disappointed by the lack of convienent browsing features such as a color wheel or grid.

I think this is a very useful application, and Ive already used it a few times. The ability to look at similar and contrasting colors at a click are just great. To all the people complaining that it doesnt have historical asian gel or multiple methods of color picking, realize that this is the first appearance of this applciation. Im sure future upates will include even more useful methods of selection.

Ok, I thought this app was awsome. It has plenty of gels and there are more to come I hear. I would like to see more apps like this. For example, one where you calculate the throw distance of a light and the beam diameter. I think that would be hot! Please consider this, it would be AWSOME if you guys could come out with lighting apps for the theater that had to do with more than just gels. But I liked this one.

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 find this app quite useful. The ability to see colors both similar and complementary to the selected color is great, and the full set of info on each color is appreciated. I am somewhat irritated by the order in which the Rosco colors appear (R111 appears after R11, R3405 appears after R34, none of the 300 series appears after their associated primary colors). Were it not for that ordering issue, I would have given a full 5 stars. I have 2 suggestions, both of which I would gladly pay considerably more for. First, add the ability to see a comparison of each color with a 3200 source and a 5600 source. Second, add the Vari*Lite colors to the selection.

Great App....does exactly what they say it does. Im a lighting designer and i have to say its nice not having to carry around all my gel books, when really all I need is the waveform and the transmission %. Saying that be careful about picking colors based on how they look on the screen...but then again if you need that warning thus app is not for you. Hope they bring Apollo to us in the future, but the app is worth the money with just Rosco, GAM, and Lee.

Small wish list item: the ability to compare any two colors, not just the suggested similar colors and compliments. Big wish list item: suggested gel colors based on color picker type criteria. For example: more saturated, less green, etc.

Like the program - needs improvement. I am curious why when asking for similar colors in cto it doesnt compare similarly titled colors between Lee, Rosco and Gam.

Its useful, but add Apollo! The ability to cross compare any two gels, not just similar and complementary is something Id like to see. Ive already begun using it in show, its been really handy. Hard to compare gel color in cue to cue darkness, the spectrograph is invaluable!

There are no expected extremes in todays technology, nor should one expect an iphone app. to replace real world. This app. was a good idea and offers a lot of people (including myself) a relative quick reference for industry colors on-the-fly. Thank you Wybron. But Fracker is right. Until I read ALL of the reviews, i didnt realize who I now know he definitely does not work for... Well then, "spank me pink".

Lost 1 star for the way rosco gel is ordered (make it the same as the swatchbook) and another star for the lack of Apollo. Fix those and its a 5-star app.

I have been surprised with how many times I actually have used this app. I find that the similar gels feature is the most useful, and having the CMY and RGB values of each color is great when attempting to match a color mixing source to a specific gel color. However, I agree with the other reviews about the order of Rosco gels being screwed up, and needing to include Apollo gels. Please update this app, I paid $10 for it, I think I deserve an update.