Trouble With Colors as Values in Blender 2.71, and Good Node-editing Practices
Channel: Erik Scott
Date: 2014-08-19

In this quick video, I describe a slight change in the way blender describes color value and how this has implications when using color values as scalar inputs. I then describe how to avoid this trouble by using value nodes and how using value nodes is simply better practice in the first place. 

Kent Trammell's Car Paint Tutorial: http://cgcookie.com/blender/2014/06/05/shader-forge-car-paint/

Creative Commons Attribution: 
corporateInterior_001_L.jpg — “Y-shaped Staircase” by Masakazu Matsumoto — http://www.flickr.com/photos/vitroids/3158822345/

Enjoy!