Hallo Kawal, the ColorVisor has on its bottom three main tabs. Color recognition with the camera is in the left tab called ColorScanner, which is the default selection.
If you are in the ColorScanner tab, the app continiously scans the color with the backward camera as default (you can change the camera with a button on the screen). Whenever the camera is calibrating itself, a constant sound is played (Version 2.0). This happens quite often and every time you move the device. So you have to focus the object you want to identify and keep the device still. After some seconds, the calibration sound will stop and VoiceOver will announce the detected color. There are two ways to focus an object. First, hold the camera 5 to 10 centimeters away from it. This works very well if the light conditions are optimal. However, incoming light or shadow will effect the measurement and you have to take care about it. The second method is to turn on the torch (if available). You can do this by shaking the iPhone or find the appropriate button on the screen. Then, lay the camera close onto the object to eliminate all light influences from the environment. The results are not as good as with the first method under optimal conditions, but they are good enough and you have control over the light conditions. The only exception for this mehtod are very light and white surfaces. The best result you can get is grey and often the camera shifts the white color to even green. This is an issue of the camera and the image processing. It is possible to scan white surfaces with the first method, which, by the way, can be also used by all iPod touch and iPad owners who do not have the opportunity of using the torch. I hope this did help you a bit. You will find a user manual of the ColorVisor in the app or on the support web site at http://visorApps.com/ColorVisor. There is also a nice AppleVis podcast about the ColorVisor at: http://www.applevis.com/podcast/episodes/color-recognition-apps-part-1-colorvisor which might give you an expression. Note, the podcast covers version 1.1 of the ColorVisor and there have been introduced some major changes in version 2.0. Please let me know if you need further assistance. Greetings Jan --- ColorVisor - The app to identify colors. Available on the App Store: http://itunes.com/app/ColorVisor --- Dr. Jan Blüher visorApps - Accessible apps for iPad & iPhone Bayreuther Str. 2 D-01187 Dresden Germany phone: +49 (0) 351 16053907 mobile: +49 (0) 176 34926242 e-mail: jan.blue...@visorapps.com web: http://visorApps.com Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/#visorApps Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/VisorApps tax number: DE281706766 Am 24.10.2012 um 14:59 schrieb Kawal Gucukoglu <kawa...@me.com>: > How is it used, i.e. do you have to put the I phone on the clothes or point > it at something? The reason for asking, I have never successfully taken a > picture or had digitise read me a bar code, or have had little success with > text detective, simply because I don't have any one to hand to tell me what > I'm doing wrong. > > Kawal. > > On Oct 24, 2012, at 1:15 PM, "Jan Blüher, visorApps" <jn.b...@googlemail.com> > wrote: > >> Hallo Kawal, >> >> the ColorVisor is especially targeted for blind people although it can be >> used by sighted persons, too. I am totally blind, as well. >> >> Greetings >> >> Jan >> >> --- >> ColorVisor - The app to identify colors. >> Available on the App Store: >> http://itunes.com/app/ColorVisor >> --- >> Dr. Jan Blüher >> visorApps - Accessible apps for iPad & iPhone >> Bayreuther Str. 2 >> D-01187 Dresden >> Germany >> >> phone: +49 (0) 351 16053907 >> mobile: +49 (0) 176 34926242 >> e-mail: jan.blue...@visorapps.com >> web: http://visorApps.com >> Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/#visorApps >> Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/VisorApps >> >> tax number: DE281706766 >> >> >> >> >> >> Am 24.10.2012 um 13:54 schrieb Kawal Gucukoglu <kawa...@me.com>: >> >>> Hello. >>> >>> I'd just like opinion on how this App works is it tailored for the blind? >>> >>> Kawal. >>> >>> On Oct 24, 2012, at 12:19 PM, "Jan Blüher, visorApps" >>> <jn.b...@googlemail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Hallo list, >>>> >>>> today, version 2.0 of the ColorVisor has been released and is now >>>> available on the App Store and for update. There are a number of new >>>> features. Some of them are: >>>> >>>> * There is now a better color naming due to refreshed reference color >>>> palettes. >>>> * You can choose to identify only basic colors or differentiated color >>>> shades. >>>> * VoiceOver verbosity during the color scan is now configurable. By >>>> default, it does not announce color names during camera calibration >>>> processes. >>>> * Additionally, a sound is played when the camera is calibrating itself. >>>> This two things avoid the announcement of wrong color names during the >>>> calibration, which was a problem in former versions. >>>> * The CMYK color components were replaced by HSB. >>>> >>>> VoiceOver support is still unbroken and you can configure the ColorVisor >>>> to behave as in former Versions. >>>> >>>> The ColorVisor and even more details can be found on the App Store at >>>> http://iTunes.com/app/ColorVisor >>>> >>>> More information and a user manual are available on the ColorVisor support >>>> page at >>>> http://visorApps.com/ColorVisor/ >>>> >>>> >>>> --- >>>> ColorVisor - The app to identify colors. >>>> Available on the App Store: >>>> http://itunes.com/app/ColorVisor >>>> >>>> If you have any questions, hints, or comments do not hesitate to contact >>>> me via this list, on my web site, or by using the new in-app support >>>> request. 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