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.

A lot of people wonder about the visualizers and the swatches you find online in general. It's a really good question. I'm sharing the following because I think it's important to understand the limits of digitized color - virtual color, online color or whatever you wanna call it. The most important thing you need to remember is this: How the paint colors look depends 100% on your device and nothing else. Digital paint colors will look different on each and every monitor, phone, tablet, laptop, etc. The color I see on my computer is not the same as the color you see on yours. Has absolutely nothing to do with color "in" the paint brand's viewers. No effort is made to ensure color accuracy with visualizer programs because the people who design them knows it doesn't matter. Because, again, how you see the paint colors depends on the device your using to view it and nothing else. The color space the visualizers work in is called RGB. In color science terms the RGB color space is ill-defined. Meaning (among other things) that the RGB color space makes no effort to mimic the human visual perception of color - how we see color in real life. Human visual perception is defined by 3 dimensions: hue, value and chroma. The RGB color space lacks TWO of those three; it lacks the dimensions of lightness and chromaticity (colorfulness/grayness). Thus, why the RGB color space is ill-defined. The RGB color space is strictly about lighting up three channels of light (red, green, and blue) to make a bunch of other colors. RGB values don't correlate to paint colors in any way whatsoever. Creating a sense of grayness or color nuance (which is lightness + saturation) digitally in the RGB colors space is very difficult. Because you're trying to "fake" a visual sense of grayness using a combination of red, green and blue channels of light on some kind of a device that is most likely not calibrated properly for displaying color. What all that means is the visualizers, any and all virtual renderings are inspirational at best. No one should mistake online visualizers or swatches for color "tools". The brands that offer a visualizer could be a lot more transparent about how it works, IMO. But the point of the visualizers is not to help the consumer, it's not meant to be a resource for color information. The visualizers are part of a marketing funnel designed to get you in a store to get chips where the staff can sell you paint and supplies.

Yeah According to Maria Killam decorator white is a blue white. The scale goes: Blue white, true white, off-white, cream. Honestly you’ll have to live with the color or repaint it. If you wanted a creamy trim color, Bm simply white or bm cloud white are two choices. I wouldn’t use a cream trim unless you have very brown/earthy hard finishes and it doesn’t look like you do. Grays look better with whites and off whites anyhow. If you want a white with out the blue and not as creamy as an off-white, bm chantilly lace is a true white. You didn’t notice before because the walls were darker and the white white provided a lot of contrast. What color is the gray? Looks like a blue gray which will always read more blue on the walls. We’re you looking for something more ‘putty’ and neutral feeling? If so, a gray with a green undertone is where you want to look.

You clearly like art and color. I'm thinking that a color closer to neutral like Soft Chamois or Mountain Peak White would let the art shine. But your combinations are well thought out and if you like to have color on your walls and these colors look right to you then they're right for you. I have used Soft Chamois and it doesn't look green at all in the light I have. I have it in both north and south facing rooms. I only sampled it in the south facing room. It turned out to be brighter than what I was looking for there, but in the north facing room its brightness was needed. Your question about why Brandon Beige looks different at different times of day is because the angle of natural light varies throughout the day, and seasonally. One person told me she chose a color for a room in summer which she loved and she hated it in winter light. This is why it is problematic for people to try to help you online. Colors look different IRL and even IRL they'll look different on different walls of the same room. I have painted the interiors of two houses completely and I'm halfway through the third. I've found there is just no substitute for sampling. Rarely do I hit the right color on the first try. And that's not even getting into how sometimes DH has a different opinion. :-)