Project Color™ The Home Depot

This app works remarkably when using the color matcher, and if you just need to find something that will work with whatever project you are doing. My only problem is the beta “see it in your space”. There can’t be any thing else in the picture but the wall, otherwise that’s colored in too, and the wall can’t be textured, otherwise there will be white specks around the place. This was the main reason I got the app, so I hope that the company is working on bringing it to a useable state. If that feature isn’t what you’re looking for, then it’s a five star app.

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The app is easy to use, fun, color matching seems to be spot on so after spending a few days to narrow down THE perfect color it’s finally time to pick up some chips and look at them in your room before putting some real paint on the walls.....only to find that nothing you’ve picked is on any of the color chips. Computer to help locate chips is not set up to help you find the closest or at least a color within the family you’ve decided on. The guy at the counter is nice and he’ll make you up a sample of the old color, but seriously, he said the color I’d picked out hasn’t been on the chip board for at least five years. UPDATE your app Home Depot!!! If you want your tools to be useful that’s a no brainer. And also the app often freezes up when it’s time to try “Painting” your wall. Have to shut it down and start it again. Painful.

For capturing a color of my siding I took a picture of a large area that was in the shade with bright sun light reflecting off adjacent surfaces. When I used the color capture feature, all paints came out too dark when held up to the vinyl siding. So, I increased the brightness of the photo using Photos until I could hold up my iPhone to the siding using color capture and the brightness was the same. I found 2 good matches. Now, I will get some samples and find out if the matches are real. Note that I turned up the brightness on my IPhone to max before I started this exercise.

This weekend I decided to finish painting our basement downstairs and wanted to blend the color with another color from Behr I purchased two years ago. I was very happy to find the colors quickly but even more happy that the feature to see the color in my room was returned. This is for now a competitive advantage and definitely a value add. The ability to see what I want in my space and go to store to get exactly that is the primary reason I purchased paint at Home Depot versus another store.

I like the app if you’re using it with the colors already loaded in the app. I tried taking pictures of color swatches with two different iPhones, one being the newest best camera the 11Pro, and the pictures did not even come close to being a match. Green turned into aqua, etc. There are too many variables with lighting, shading, phone cameras, to make this a viable option. I would almost take this feature off until this is fixed, if ever. Customers will visit HD with a picture on their phone expecting it to be the color they want. It will not be.