good morning! it’s a dark and dreary day here, but i’m happy to start off the day with some color, courtesy benjamin moore and sherwin williams.
these are two of the coolest iphone apps i’ve seen in a while: seriously must-have (free!) apps from sherwin williams and benjamin moore that allow you to snap a picture of something you see with your phone and then plunk it into their color device, which magically matches it to a paint color from their collections. once you have a color they use your iphone’s GPS to give you an address of the closest paint store. i can’t tell you how many emails i get a day from readers asking to match paint colors to various objects and this is just the solution we need- and it’s free! click here and here for info on their free apps. i downloaded both last night and can’t wait to start matching.
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“magically” is about right :)
what an incredible application!
except that you’re depending on your photo to be an accurate representation of the color, no?
yup. although i’ll have to say, i’ve been pretty impressed with my iphone camera- i can usually get it to take fairly accurate color shots when i have decent lighting. lighting is usually the issue for me….
Very cool!A great application.
love this app!! thanks for sharing.
Wowzer! I am navigating the app store as we speak. Where has these apps been all my life…
the best part is it gives you the RGB numbers
That is very clever …each day I get closer to realizing an iphone is in my future.
Benjamin Moore is our paint brand of choice. I would love it if this app works! I just downloaded it and will have to do some testing. Thanks for the head’s up.
whoah! I want one for pantone – is there one?
wow, it’s like a free pantone swatch!
Just what I needed…another reason to get an iphone/itouch! I am definitely seeing one in my near future :)
more reasons to then a iPhone
Oh, I wish..I wish..I wish…
Oh, if only I had an iPhone…
ha ha haa it is fantastic
Thank you SO much for the heads up about these two apps. I’ve been dreaming of something similar for months and I’m super jazzed that it finally exists! I couldn’t sleep so I wrote a little review of initial observations regarding them both:
http://thoroughlymoderntilly.wordpress.com/2009/06/13/colorpicker/
very cool app
I LOVE this! I sure did download the Ben App the DAY it came out!!!
I seriously doubt the accuracy. Unless you shoot everything with the same light the colour will always depend on the light, it’s physics :)
I wonder if this app somehow uses the white balance and other info from the camera? Would very much like detailed tech. info!
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