We’re starting our home improvement projects, and I’ve
discovered an app to help us choose just the right colors for each room: ColorSnap by Sherwin-Williams. This app allows
you to make color palettes based on Sherwin Williams paint colors.
When you open the app, it brings you to the main menu, where
you can choose how you want to make a color palette. One way to do it is to
take a picture of an object with a color you like, for instance the pretty blue
on the birdhouse below. Choose “Snap New
Photo”. Then, you can take a picture with your phone’s camera. Or, if you
already have a previously taken picture in mind, choose “Use Saved Photo”.
Once you’ve taken the picture, the app will ask you to crop
the photo so it’s small enough to use.
Then, you can move your cursor around and pinpoint the
color(s) in the picture that you liked and wanted to use in your palette.
The app can choose coordinating colors to go with the color
you’ve chosen.
You can also create color palettes by looking through
Sherwin-Williams’ complete collection of paint colors. To do this, choose
“Explore Color” on the main menu.
Once you find a color that you like, you can click on it and
have the app choose two coordinating colors for it.
If you like the palette, you can save it, and even adjust
the colors you’ve chosen for variations on the original.
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ColorSnap can help you create color schemes for one wall to
a whole house, and it’s a lot of fun to play with and save your color ideas.
(Saved palettes can be accessed when you choose “Saved Colors”).
And, when
you’re ready to buy your saved paint colors, you can click “Find Store” to
locate your nearest Sherwin-Williams location.
While we haven’t narrowed down which of our color palettes
to use, we are having fun creating ideas.
Want to give this app a try? It’s available on the iTunes App Store for
Apple devices and Google Play for Androids.
My oldest daughter assisted with the research and writing of this post and is looking forward to helping with more Slap 'Appy posts.
What a cool app. This looks like it would make picking out paints so much easier and fun. We have a lot of painting to do because we are getting ready to sell our house next spring. We are trying to slowly complete one room at a time since we have time.
ReplyDeleteThat is such a cool app!! Thank you for sharing it, I lnow it's one that will come in very handy for us as we have plenty of home projects that need attention!
ReplyDeleteHi Daisy,
ReplyDeleteThis app is fun! You'll find yourself looking at color options in a whole new way.
We are going to paint one room at a time as well , so here's to lots of patience for both of us!
Hi Barb,
ReplyDeleteYou are so welcome! It's a really fun app to use and it helps design a room by showing you complimenting colors you may not have thought of yourself.