How To Match Colors

If an absolute match isn t critical you might eyeball the paint options at the store and choose one that seems the closest to the color you want to match.

How to match colors.

Download a paint matching app if you can t take a sample. Wear one knockout shade a cayenne sheath and matching pumps to turn an outfit into an exclamation point. For example if you want to wear green pants and a red shirt and it s not christmas and you re not going to a holiday theme party simply. Violet orange red yellow blue green.

You can use the same process with camtasia to match the color of callouts text and other shapes to specific colors in a video. In the three steps that follow i demonstrate how to use the color picker in snagit to match an exact color found in an image. Simply put complementary colors are on opposite sides of the color wheel from each other. The color matching feature in most color pickers is indicated by an eyedropper icon.

A combination of 4 colors that are equidistant from each other on the color circle. Most major paint brands have their own apps for matching paint colors including sherwin williams behr glidden and valspar. To match colors try choosing analogous colors which are colors that are next to each other on the color wheel. This creates a dynamic vivid and playful effect.

When you re matching colors try to pair warm colors with warm colors and cool colors with cool colors since they ll go well together. This means they re high contrast pairs so the key to using two complementary colors and without looking like a clown is to make one of them a darker shade.