Can I Take A Pixturw Of A Painted Wall To Get Color

Last week, we talked almost the process of choosing a paint color for a piece of furniture. You saw the many different blue options for a refinished desk and how I finally landed on the blue that was perfect for that detail desk. (You tin see that post Here.). Today, I want to show you how I searched for color inspiration and the tool I now use to match a pigment colour from a picture.

Imagine you're scrolling through Pinterest, Instagram, or a web log post. You see a beautifully painted piece of furniture and retrieve…

"That'due south it! That's the colour I've been searching for!"

You read through the post and pray the blogger mentioned the name of the color they used. Merely they didn't. Or, if they practise mention information technology, the color is from a paint line that isn't readily available to you lot.

So what do you exercise?

Head to the paint shop, choose a pile of paint chips, and effort to match the color? Peradventure. Merely there's an easier way…

Download the Sherwin-Williams ColorSnap Visualizer app on your phone which allows yous to explore colors and match colors to those in a photo.

Hither'south how it works… Take a photograph of any room (or screenshot one yous see online) and ColorSnap will work its magic. Instantly, you'll see colour matches for up to viii colors in the room. If y'all'd similar to match a different colour in the photo, simply drag the color circumvolve around the photo.

You could too use ColorSnap to colour match artwork or a wall color in your own home. Just snap a photo and ColorSnap to match it.

Here's a photo of Thrifty Decor Chick's living room. I really love the neutral colors she uses throughout her home. She does mention the exact colors she uses on her blog so I know these results are not an exact match, but they are really shut.

Remember, the colors you encounter on screen are not always the colors you see in real life. But information technology's the color on-screen that you're attracted to so a little variation from the actual color is okay.

If a blogger mentions a paint colour from the pigment line they're using, but there'southward not a local retailer for nearby for that particular pigment line, yous can color match it to a Sherwin-Williams colour using ColorSnap.

Now dorsum to color matching painted furniture. Here'southward a photograph I found online from Pigment Information technology Beautiful and my original inspiration for the desk I mentioned earlier. Isn't it gorgeous! It's how I chose the color Languid Blueish.

Although I ultimately painted my desk Polo Blueish and topped it with black coat, the final color photographed more similar a gray steel. If you liked the photographed color version, then Forged Steel would be a close lucifer.