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June 11th, 2009
iphone paint apps

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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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20 comments
Zoo said:
June 11th, 2009 - 8:41 am

“magically” is about right :)
what an incredible application!

Erica said:
June 11th, 2009 - 8:55 am

except that you’re depending on your photo to be an accurate representation of the color, no?

grace said:
June 11th, 2009 - 8:58 am

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….

Karena said:
June 11th, 2009 - 8:59 am

Very cool!A great application.

april said:
June 11th, 2009 - 9:10 am

love this app!! thanks for sharing.

Susan said:
June 11th, 2009 - 9:13 am

Wowzer! I am navigating the app store as we speak. Where has these apps been all my life…

darren said:
June 11th, 2009 - 9:14 am

the best part is it gives you the RGB numbers

Stacey said:
June 11th, 2009 - 9:37 am

That is very clever …each day I get closer to realizing an iphone is in my future.

June 11th, 2009 - 9:46 am

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.

Chela said:
June 11th, 2009 - 10:22 am

whoah! I want one for pantone – is there one?

Susan L. said:
June 11th, 2009 - 11:06 am

wow, it’s like a free pantone swatch!

Jamie said:
June 11th, 2009 - 11:43 am

Just what I needed…another reason to get an iphone/itouch! I am definitely seeing one in my near future :)

Jaime said:
June 11th, 2009 - 12:31 pm

more reasons to then a iPhone

June 11th, 2009 - 12:55 pm

Oh, I wish..I wish..I wish…

Elyse said:
June 11th, 2009 - 4:23 pm

Oh, if only I had an iPhone…

benjamin eshun said:
June 12th, 2009 - 5:09 pm

ha ha haa it is fantastic

tilly said:
June 13th, 2009 - 3:59 am

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/

June 13th, 2009 - 5:53 pm

very cool app

Stephanie said:
June 15th, 2009 - 9:23 pm

I LOVE this! I sure did download the Ben App the DAY it came out!!!

nutela said:
June 19th, 2009 - 7:17 am

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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