To ues Benjamin Moores Personal Color Viewer (PCV)/open then click camera on homepage of PCV/choose folder you have saved photo in and click on photo to upload to PCV. Once your photo is uploaded you have to choose the surface area you want to mask, choose a masking tool and mask the surface area, then choose Paint Photo to paint the masked area. To do this: 1.Look in the surface area (rectangles lower left) and click on large rectangle with the word "wall" to set the first surface area to mask. Rectangle now should be green. (note: to add a surface click on the + sign/to name it click on the A, type in name then click on the >>) 2. In the masking tools area move your mouse around the tools and look for the tool that allows you to connect the dots around the surface you have choosen to paint. Click on it. (note: just my personal choice) 3. Now click on photo and mask the area you want to paint by connecting the dots around the area. After you have done this click the masked area to remove the dots so that the masked area is green only without dots. 4.Look in lower right corner of PCV and click on Paint Photo, it will ask if you want to save, click yes. 5.now click a surface in the surface area, click on a color from the paint swatches on right and that surface is now painted that color. (note: once photo is uploaded look at bottom left of PCV to make sure SURFACES/TOOLS are not hidden. If hidden click arrow to show Surfaces/Tools). For HELP look at upper right of PCV.

After looking at many pictures in magazines of rooms with yellow walls, we decided we wanted to paint our living room yellow too. And you know what we found out? A photo of someone else's room doesn't help you pick the right color for your own room! So we had a quart mixed up of a color we liked, and rolled it on a 4 x 8 foot section of wall. We lived with it for a day or two, and noticed how it looked when the sun was out, at night, and when it was cloudy. Finally after five tests, we found the perfect color... one that wasn't too bright in the daylight or too dull at night, that turned our living room into the warm and inviting place we'd wanted. We aren't really picky -- we hit the bedroom and bath colors first try -- but yellows are hard! (Our final color was a Rodda paint chip mixed up by our paint store in Benjamin Moore.) Good luck. It's worth the fuss.

I'm sorry, but I'm really a visual person. Is there any way you can post some pictures of your house. Laurie

It has been a while since the last activity on this thread, and I felt it might be beneficial to give my updated perspective on White Opulence #879 from Benjamin Moore as a paint color for main areas. Having lived with this color for a bit longer now since my last comment, I am beginning to understand how tightly it regulates what other colors can be placed with it for anyone who cares about a homogeneous scheme and also how undeniable the pink tone can be when applied over large surface areas. White Opulence is a tint of red, but it is so light that in ample daylight or under bright white lighting it can "read" as white. In average daylight, it produces a whisper-light pink hue. The effect of this is magnified the larger the area that is covered by it. Using this color on the walls in the main space of a large, open-plan layout with high ceilings, for example, will imbue the area with a light, yet undeniable, pale pink cast in average lighting. It would be a good idea to prepare not only yourself but also any other significant users of the space of the pink tinge before selecting this color because some people truly dislike pink, and it is courteous to work with all regular users of spaces during design planning to try to ensure no one will be overly uncomfortable with the final effect. One thing that hasn't been discussed is how White Opulence can cast a peach tone under warmer lighting colors, especially in the absence of any compensating daylight, meaning nighttime in most home spaces. If peach is a color you want to avoid and you utilize warm lighting -- that is, progressively orange-tinged the further under a 4000K color temperature you go -- then this is a paint color to avoid. The general recommendation is that 4000K is quite cool for home environments, so if you don't know what color temperature your home lighting is, you can probably assume it is warmer than 4000K if you selected average bulbs from your home supplies provider. White Opulence as a red-based white was an attractive choice for my main space because I already had a red accent in a permanent finish and personally prefer the fresh look that a red-white lends versus common alternate choices for main area wall colors like yellow-based beiges or blue-based grays. The problem is that so many home goods available are manufactured in colors that go with beige and gray wall colors rather than the faint red-white of White Opulence that color coordination requires more work than may be expected. Of course, you could decorate using pure white items, but what you really need are options for whisper pink basics which are hard to find. Adding stronger pink or red items is not always the solution either because you cannot feasibly fill the room with accents; you need some basics that blend with the wall tone. Then there is the issue of coordinating White Opulence with colors for auxiliary rooms if you wish to have some variety throughout the home while still maintaining the feel that all of the home's colors work together. Most blues coordinate with White Opulence, but if you have already used red accents in rooms painted with White Opulence, then red is challenging to pair with blue in most instances unless it is a dark, cool blue like navy. Where this has been a dilemma for me has been my hallway colors connecting the main open space to the bedrooms which are all different pastels. The color plan I have will work, and I'll enjoy the variety of colors that I have been able to make flow together, but to be honest, at times I have wondered how much easier the design process might have been if I had picked plain white for the main space. White is the ultimate neutral some might say. At the very least, a basic white for the main area would have given me more freedom in selecting fabrics and other home products for the main space as well as coordinating colors for other rooms. It is all too easy to second-guess decisions that will affect your life long-term. I am using Benjamin Moore's durable Aura formula in a satin finish, so I expect the new White Opulence paint will last decades. Had I selected a plain white or yellow- or blue-based off white, I might be back on this very forum wishing I had gone with White Opulence to add appeal beyond the standard choices. I hope this is helpful to anyone still considering this color.