Tapping any of these colors once displays a larger paint strip double-tapping adds it to your favorites.

Just like a real paint strip, this strip displays six other colors in the same color family as the one you’ve selected. Touch Me Once, Touch Me Twice: Ben Color Capture selects an appropriate color swatch for the color you’ve touched on the screen (left), then lets you see colors that go well with what you’ve selected (right).Īfter you choose a photo and select a color to match, Ben Color Capture displays a virtual paint strip across the bottom of the screen, showing the name and associated Benjamin Moore paint color that’s the best possible match. While there are similarities to these apps, what happens when you choose a color to match varies slightly between programs. Each program can also locate your nearest authorized dealer. (Need proof? Consider the pyramid of too-bold, not-bold-enough, not-quite-right, paint cans stacked in my basement.) Two new iPhone apps, one from Benjamin Moore and the other from Sherwin-Williams, give you tools to ease your color choice quandaries.īoth Benjamin Moore’s Ben Color Capture and Sherwin-Williams’ ColorSnap work on the same principal: Take a picture with your iPhone or select a photo from your the photo library on your iPhone or iPod touch, crop the photo for the best color selection, then touch or drag your finger across the screen to choose the color you’d like to match.

Choosing paint colors can be an enterprise fraught with significant (other) danger and considerable expense.

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