Hello Anyone know what paint code for this? Have tried to get a match but to no avail Purple/ Burgundy is either to light for a close match. Cheers Sent from my SM-J510FN using Tapatalk
Take something small to a local paint factors, they will scan it and then do a custom match in a spray can for you. Most will start with the scan and then compare it and adjust until it's correct. You pay for this service, of course, but it's much better than any Halfords can achieve.
Depends how good a match you want, I guess. I've had two different colours done, the app was close but only good enough to work to an edge, rather than blend a patch across a panel; took a human to get it good enough for that.
Ah, I meant for a smart phone. Yes like you I've had solid colour scanned, probably half a dozen times, and it's always been miles out. Codes are no better. I'm letting mine get scruffy all over then I'm going to paint the bottom half a different shade.
I sent a piece of my van that had been cut off to a paint supplier called autopaints Brighton to get it matched after it not matching previously. It cost to match it and then the cost of the paint but it was a perfect match to my untrained eye.
This is because unless a scanner does a match to the full spectrum of reflected light by using a diffraction grating or a prism, you wont get a match. A phone or any digital camera will record everything over a wide range of red as a single 0 to 255 value. Same for green and blue. If your van is lit by perfect sunlight, an RGB scan could be quite a close match. But if its lit by say a reddish evening light, it could be that the daylight has more red in a region where your paint doesnt reflect, and less in the region where it does. Suddenly red looks like orange, or black or brown or even a wierd green.. You are matching a complex mix of paint pigments, none of which has a reflected spectrum that lines up with a simple sensor's RGB. I dont expect many scans might spot the black that is a part of the recipe for Pastel White for example... An experienced paint shop person on the other hand takes the sample and matches it by eye, maybe using that £1500 scanner as a guide.
Yes not as easy as it seems to get the match spot on or very close, Thanks for the info Sent from my SM-J510FN using Tapatalk
This would make a great physics lesson - pity I am not still teaching (not really!!) I used to use an example of this when teaching. A friend of mine was a solicitor and he got a client off a driving charge as the copper said he was driving an orange car - it was in fact cream/beige but it was under sodium street lights in the evening
Looks like plum crazy purple . Was on a lot of yank muscle cars . I could be wrong but my brother has a 69 charger in that colour
