PaintMixLab

Pick a color from any photo and paint what you see. PaintMixLab turns any photo into oil & acrylic paint mixing recipes written in the tubes on your table. Photograph a landscape, a portrait, a swatch in a magazine, tap the color you want, and get two or three tubes in whole parts, like 4 : 2 : 1, with a rating of how close the mix will be. HOW IT WORKS 1. Choose your paint set (or build your own from the tubes you own). 2. Photograph the color, or open a photo from your library. 3. Tap the spot you want to match. 4. Mix the recipe, check it against the swatch, paint. WHY THE RECIPES WORK Screens mix light. Paint mixes pigment, and the two behave nothing alike: blue and yellow light make grey, blue and yellow paint make green. PaintMixLab models how each pigment absorbs and scatters light across 38 bands of the spectrum, fitted to real painted swatches rather than guessed from a hex…