Another iPhone Decor App: Sherwin Williams ColorSnap

....about their color app, which is available now (and it's free) at the App Store.

The overall idea is similar to the Ben Color Capture App - you choose a color from a photo and it will give you the closest paint match along with a coordinating palette - and this time, of course, it pulls from the Sherwin Williams line.

Here's a full list of the features:

Choose a color and Sherwin-Williams will match it with one of its paint colors.

Receive more than a color match—you’ll get a coordinating palette that complements your chosen color.

Colors also include RGB values for architectural design pros and Photoshop fiends, making it easy to recreate the colors in renderings.

Using either iPhone GPS capability or zip code entry, find your local Sherwin-Williams store. You can direct dial or map its location all within the application.

Save colors to your “My Saved Colors” library for future reference.

Stay tuned for new and exciting features to come with the new 3.0 OS iPhone software release.

More Info: Sherwin-Williams ColorSnap

Related Links:

Ben Color Capture App

Color Capture iPhone App on Unplggd

Image: Sherwin Williams

Oh wow! I can't wait to give this a try. I'm starting to think about paint colors for my living room, but need them not to clash with my sofa (a pear green). Now I can take a picture of it and find some complementary colors. Yay!

posted by first5times on May 27th 2009 at 9:35am
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This can't be very accurate.

posted by Comicgeek on May 27th 2009 at 10:08am
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This sounds really neat, but wouldn't you need to color calibrate your iPhone to whatever the Shermin-Williams color profiles are? And wouldn't a color on an illuminated screen be really difficult to match in pigment anyway?

This sounds like a really neat idea, but I just don't understand how it could be accurate. If it was, I'd be all over it!

posted by inertia on May 27th 2009 at 10:36am
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I have it and while I agree that it can't be very accurate, it really is a great starting point for finding a color palette that you like. You can snap pictures of your rooms and of items that you like, and it's very easy to see how things match or not, and get ideas for coordinating colors. Very handy.

posted by wally3 on May 27th 2009 at 10:38am
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For those of us without iphones, you can also do the same thing on the sherwin williams website with an uploaded picture.

posted by JENK968 on May 27th 2009 at 11:01am
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Wow! Another fun way to waste time playing with an iPhone. Gotta get it now.

posted by Usbek de Perse on May 27th 2009 at 11:55am
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I got this the other day - It's easy and works great!

Just be sure that your lighting is indirect, otherwise the shading could affect the colors picked up in the photographs that you're taking.

I also noticed that, in my experience, certain wood tones tend to go orange - but again, that's due to the way the camera picks up the color of the wood image.

posted by bepsf on May 27th 2009 at 3:33pm
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Someone needs to write an app for identifying plants!

posted by spinsLPs on May 27th 2009 at 5:21pm
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