Good with a fix and some enhancements
Overall I like this app very much.
Fixes needed:
1. There are errors in how the palettes render. I get different answers for matching color on mobile versus the full website. Sometimes you cannot swipe to the fifth choice or choices repeat.
2. Also, when I save palettes into favorites, they sometimes shift especially if saving from one favorite group to another. Its almost like the wrong palette record ID gets stored. You revisit what is in your favorites and get random palettes you never stored there while the ones you did store are gone.
Enhancements:
1. Ability to store more than 5 colors or palettes in a favorite group
2. Support for iPad
3. More choices for colors that go along with a selected color. Both in terms of number of palettes to consider and number of colors on the palette. I am looking for 4-5 colors per palette for wall, accent, ceiling, and trim.
4. Some sort of option slider to increase saturation when matching photos. The default matching chooses a lot of grays.
5. A way to fill out the remaining 2-4 colors of a 4-5 color palette given 2+ colors I choose. I also need filter selection boxes to narrow my choices to a particular collection. For example, I only want to use Color Stories because they are full-spectrum
6. Some sort of backwards compatibility in color selection. So, if I choose "chateau" and the palette says "stoneware" is a complementary color, then I can go to "stoneware" and see that "chateau" is a complementary color.
How I try to use this app:
1. Take photos of all the things in my house that I cannot change like floor and wall tile, countertops, and wood in cabinets and floors. Find matching colors and favorite them. (see where larger favorite groups would help?).
2. Find colors that complement the matched colors. In other words, favorite the palettes where the main color is from #1 and derive a list of accent paint colors that complement the things in my house I cannot change.
3. The accent colors from #2 are now my candidates for wall color. Next I need palette choices for these colors. Ideally, I would have some palettes with similar tones but different colors. These would become my master palette with the complementary colors becoming the wall colors for adjoining rooms.
4. Then I need more palettes for each of the wall colors that I have chosen in step 3. I need colors for the accent, ceiling, and trim for my given wall color.
5. Narrow-down the lists from 3 and 4 to find common colors. That way, hopefully, I can carry the same trim color throughout the house and only a small number of ceiling colors.
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Color Capture, v3.1