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Your digital camera can be a great tool for developing color ideas and palettes especially if you can print the results at home.
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Most of the time, when you're taking photographs, you're looking for a subject—a person, a view, or an interesting object or angle.
To explore color using the convenience of a digital camera (or a regular camera for that matter), forget about framing, composition, or even the quality of the subject. The goal is simply to record colors and particularly color combinations that interest or excite you.
Once you start to do this, you'll be amazed at the beautiful, unusual and inspiring color ideas that come your way!
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Shoot plenty. Don't be afraid of blurring or getting things out of focus—doing so may even help you find colors.
If you can control the exposure settings on your camera (how dark or light the picture is), then shoot a dark–to–light range for each subject. Darker is generally better, as overexposure tends to wash out colors.
You may also be able to change the light settings of your camera (for example, to tungsten or fluorescent), if you're shooting in artificial light.
Spend a little extra for quality photo paper, and unless you have good color correction software, wait until you see a printed sample before making big plans. What you see on the screen may be different from what your printer delivers!
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Tip: Matte paper is usually best for color matching.
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For precise color matching, take your prints to your local Home Depot, and use the free color scanner located in the Color Solutions Center.
This will give you the color, color name and code that's the closest possible match in the huge BEHR Premium Plus® system. Right there and then, using the ColorSmart by BEHR™ kiosk, you can develop coordinating color palettes. You can also print these palettes out.
Or, take your BEHR Premium Plus® color samples and information home with you, and work online from there.
From the comfort of home, you can use ColorSmart™ by BEHR™ online (www.behr.com) to develop coordinating color palettes from your digital photo starting points. With ColorSmart, you can modify your colors. You can even paint rooms digitally to see how the finished project will look.
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Try the ColorSmart™ by BEHR interactive program to experiment with thousands of different color combinations and see how they look in actual room settings.
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