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<\/a><\/p>\nRound One<\/strong><\/p>\n Just for fun, I thought I would try the Sherwin Williams Color Visualizer.<\/a> You can play with the photos they have in stock or you can upload photos of your own. I decided to see if I might like a cooler color on my living room walls.<\/p>\n After taking a photo and uploading it to their site, I spent some time going through the demo (highly recommended since the program is not as intuitive as it could be) and then masking just the walls so that I could play with new colors. I found out the hard way that you need to be registered to save your favorites. Oops. There is probably a way to not lose the image but I didn’t figure it out so I had to register and then start from scratch.<\/p>\n I also discovered that when you are done masking a surface and hit the “continue” button, you then have to select a description before trying to save it. After a number of failed attempts at downloading my scenes \u00a0– here are a few of the results.<\/p>\n A dark gray green? Maybe. But I need to get rid of the pinkish cast on the ceiling from the reflected color of the terra cotta walls in order to really see it.<\/p>\n A light gray green? Yuck!<\/p>\n Round Two.<\/strong><\/p>\n I could have kept going but then I started to think about using the program for something else entirely. Why not try various colors on a photo of a painting instead of a room? I knew squares would be easiest so I uploaded the Albers image from the last post.<\/p>\n Compare the new version above to the original on the right. I replaced a bunch of the blues and some of the reds with olive green.<\/p>\n Round Three<\/strong><\/p>\n Next I cropped the image to just the four squares on the lower right and kept on playing. It will take a few more tries to get the colors I like but, just like in real life, the possibilities are endless.<\/p>\n Sherwin Williams is opening a new store in our neighborhood and offering 40% off on all paint. Even though I am not planning to repaint my living room anytime soon, it did get me thinking about changing the color. Don’t get my wrong. I love the color it is now. We wanted something warm and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":3518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspirations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>A dark gray blue? Whoa. That would ultra dark and cozy. But I kind of like it.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>A yellow green? Nice contrast to all the red and wood. But I’d need to get a different rug. And different art.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>Replacing the colors using the rectangular masking and erasing tools was easy after I got the hang of it. (I do wish there was an easy way to do curves so that I could juggle some of my jewelry designs!)<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"