Browse Forums Interior Decorating Lounge 1 Oct 23, 2011 5:50 pm Hi All, Found this info on a USA website (unfortunately have lost link ) but did save the instructions to a great online paint tool...: Easy RGB. It will let you find out the tints for colours fm paint companies such as Benjamin Moore, Ralph Lauren, Sherwin Williams etc. You can then get them tined to an Aust paint brand eg. Dulux, Wattyl, Taubman etc. Let's say you go over to a friend's house and her living room is painted the OLD Porter's Indian Ivory (USA colour). You come home and realize you only have a Sherwin Williams paint deck...Crap. How can you figure out a close match to Indian Ivory without having to go through Porter??? Go to Easy RGB (easyrgb.com) and follow these instructions: From the toolbar at the top click on "From Commercial Tints to RGB" Type in the original color name you want to match and select its brand from the drop down menu. (see below) Press Start. Then you should see the name of the paint with a bunch of weird #s below it (unless you typed it in wrong) Click "Get Commercial Tints" You should now see a page like this: Don't mess with the color numbers that have appeared and ignore the HTML color # part.. just leave that blank Last step- just select the paint brand you'd like to match your color to. Press Start. Voila! Sherwin's closest matches to Porter's Indian Ivory. Not close enough? Go back and select another brand to match it to and see how close you can get. Hope it helps! Also found this great paint tool - it's like your own paint chart for all major brands. http://www.osmosis.com.au/colourpot.asp ... &pageID=25 You can find the rgb tint info and using this info find similiar colours (closest match between 1-10) from different paint brands. Have a play it's simple to use. Hope you Enjoy !!! Re: 'Great online paint tools' x 2 2Oct 24, 2011 5:24 am I’ve got the Osmos one thanks to d@n, its pretty spot on colour wise. Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com Re: 'Great online paint tools' x 2 3Oct 25, 2011 11:20 am An excellent link but one proviso is that unless you are using a calibrated system then don't print out a colour scheme from these sites without realizing that there can be a huge difference between what you see on your computer monitor, what your printer spits out and the actual paint companies colour samples. If you use the online tables to compare one brand to another as per how sanjan above describes and get the RGB values which correspond to say a Taubmans colour then you are good to go. That osmosis site is a good tool too. Stewie No, I even have sections of narrowness where the tiles won't slide up any further. When I manage some spare time, I might play around with the first DIY part of my… 7 4926 Thankyou so much 😀 I've decided on White on white for doors and trims, White on white 50% on ceiling and Mt buller for walls. Fingers crossed it will look OK 😀 2 7157 Thank you. That is really helpful. Once we get the place done and passed for OC we can upgrade in the future once we get back on our feet and not paying mortgage and rent. 4 5720 |