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Anyone know of any good sites that will let you work on paint color schemes? Probably didn't word that right. I just need to be able to look at paint color ideas and wondered if there was such a site to help me do this???
Lowe's has one...go to this page and click on the link for "Signature Colors Virtual Painter"
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I'm sure some of the other home centers and paint manufacturers also have things like this on their website. Or Glidden has a CD that you can buy for $5. I've used the Glidden one and it's nice, only problem is the colors on the computer screen never look close enough to the real paint colors, so I worked out a scheme that looked great on screen, and in real life the colors still complemented each other fine, but they weren't the colors I thought they were and I didn't like them at all.
Behr has one through home depot also. I like virtual painer. It lets you import pictures of your actual rooms you want to paint, which is nifty. The problem with any of these, as ecrane pointed out, is that the colors NEVER look the same way in real life that they do on the monitor. I would recommend either getting yourself a fandeck of paint colors, or going to whichever paint store you buy from, find the range of colors you like, grab the little cards, then when you go home to think and ponder, you can input the actual color numbers into the programs AND, with the chips in hand as well, you will really have a good idea of what you will be looking at in your finished product. Trying to judge from a computer monitor is sketchy, and I dont know about you, but I only want to paint a whole room once! :)
