Interior design tools for the iPhone, first up Sherwin-Williams
I've been gambling with ColorSnap for approximately a week and right here's my cents about Sherwin-Williams' first dive into the iPhone pool. I'll overview Ben the following day.
When you release ColorSnap, it masses pretty quick and flashes through a brief collection of pics matched with a Sherwin-Williams color. The home screen arrives shortly thereafter and it is ready for action.
There are two buttons on the home page, Camera and Library. Library will take you to the photos you've already loaded onto your phone and Camera launches the iPhone's camera. I can't imagine how that could be made any simpler.
So say you've got an aerial view of a Bahamian seaside loaded onto your cellphone and also you want to provide you with a shade scheme based on the picture. ColorSnap opens a copy of your archived picture. Once it's been imported, you may zoom and crop the picture how you'd like. The you factor to (actually) some thing color you'd like to have matched. It takes a 2nd or , however ColorSnap will pull the nearest Sherwin-Williams coloration it could discover and fit it in your photograph. In the photo above, the cursor turned into located somewhere over the water and ColorSnap matched it with SW6516, Down Pour. If you trust the in shape, then ColorSnap will collect a three-colour palette based on the first color it matched. The three-colour palette is computerized and you can not manipulate the secondary or tertiary hues within the palette. Hmmm.
If you click on on any of the colours inside the pattern palette, ColorSnap jumps to a display with the RGB formulas for the 3 colours within the palette. Considering RGB is the coloration gadget used for video and web shade, I don't apprehend why RGB for the reason that we're speakme approximately paint. I don't care approximately Red, Green and Blue light once I'm thinking about paint. When it comes to paint I want to peer a pigment formulation. That doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
With all of that stated, when you get to a 3-coloration palette you like, you can save it to a group.
Once stored, you may come returned on your series on every occasion you want.
The final function ColorSnap is Find Store. Find Store uses the iPhone's GPS to locate the closest Sherwin-Williams location to wherever you are. This function works perfectly and that's more than I can say for the rest of the app unfortunately.
In ColorSnap's defense, the Capture function is limited by the fact that it's relying on a camera in a phone. The app does a better job with the Library function. As a test, I took a photo of an actual Sherwin-Williams color swatch and tried to get ColorSnap to identify it. The app failed miserably. Again, that is as much the fault of the camera as it is the app. However, if it can't recognize one of its own colors, how would it do if I were trying to coordinate a room color with a carpet or a tile? This is an app that doesn't exactly fill me with confidence.
I get the sensation from the usage of ColorSnap that design specialists are not the target audience for this app. I imply, I do not need a color specifying tool that robotically assigns 3-color palettes. I doubt I'll be whipping this app out after I'm in a catch 22 situation about the way to paint a room. Although it will make my nieces and nephews ooh and ahh.
Even so, it's a pretty interesting first attempt. Sherwin-Williams was the first paint company to get a specifying tool into the app store. This application is the first step down a long road that's going to change everything we know about everything. But that's just the early adopter in me speaking. If they decide to develop it into something meaningful, this is a good first step. For now though, ColorSnap is interesting for what it represents more than for what it can do. You can download ColorSnap on Sherwin-Williams' website or you can find it in the App Store on iTunes.