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@JMM (Michael) posted:....DON"T USE A COMPUTER TO PICK YOUR COLOR.
Computers and cameras are going to change the color you see from the color that was there due in part to their image processing. Some times by A LOT.
^^ This. A thousand times, this^^
Not to mention that the light in which a photo is taken makes a huge difference in how the photo itself looks.
There's a rather infamous story here in Sacramento of how they came to repaint our most famous local monument a few years back - the Tower Bridge. The bridge brings the old main highway from San Francisco across the Sacramento River and directly to the State Capitol, a few blocks away. It's the town's front door.
Anywhere else, this structure would be lost amid countless other nondescript steel truss bridges, but this is a town that prides itself on being nondescript**. Anyway, what the bridge was most known for was its distinctive golden paint job.
When it needed a repaint, this being California, it was decided that only the citizenry should decide on just which tint to use. And this being the Age of the Internet, what could be a more democratizing process than to post the color candidates on a web page and let the citizens vote?
So, vote they did. The winning candidate won by a landslide - a majority concluding which gold was the goldest gold of all.
Except, well, you have probably figured out the rest. The paint was bought, the bridge was painted at enormous expense, and everyone showed up to marvel at what turned out to be probably the sickliest shade of greenish-yellow ever to grace a public edifice.
Again, please don't use a computer to pick your color.
**From Wikipedia: "The American Institute of Steel Construction gave the Tower Bridge an honorable mention for its Class B prize bridge award in 1935."
We got an honorable mention in Class B! Does it get any better than that?
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