Color Match

[DrakeCanyonArchitecture]

This is something that I have spent some time on in the past and had finally given up trying to match colors in Revit. But, a company that I do work for is wanting to use exact colors for  a presentation for the customer. In the photo below, the exact same color is used for the vertical trim, lap siding, and board and batten. They are all different depending on the material they are applied to. The image that Revit uses for the material seems to be the biggest factor. All 3 of these materials also don't look close to the Sherwin Williams swatch that I'm using for the RGB values. Is there are way to get more consistent results?

[barthbradley]

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@DrakeCanyonArchitecture wrote:

Is there are way to get more consistent results?

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What do you mean by "consistent"? Do you mean the same material color looks different on one wall vs. another wall.  Wouldn't that be due to the lighting/shading?  

As for getting the color to match exactly the color of the swatch, I think this is a futile endeavor - IMO/E.  

[DrakeCanyonArchitecture]

Consistent from one material to another. Like in the photo, it's not off by just a little bit from the trim to the wall yet it's the exact same RGB color. 

Somewhat to your point, the color in the color selector preview (the RGB value) looks pretty much exactly like the swatch, but way off when applied to a material. My only other thought is to edit the material in photoshop and apply the color over the image but that would be a huge hassle IMO. 

Even if the color wasn't exact to the swatch, we could clean it up in photoshop. It would be a lot easier if all the colors that are supposed to match were actually the same color though.

[barthbradley]

Are you saying the wall and roof fascia are using the exact same Project Material?  If so, something else is going on here.    

...wait a minute...I don't see a fascia.  I see the roof edge.  What if you place a fascia on the roof edge that uses the same Project Material as the Wall.  Any improvement?  

[DrakeCanyonArchitecture · Accepted solution]

I was able to get a lot closer with the Image Brightness slider. It's more of a "matching paint the old way" kind of thing, like when we used to go to the paint store and they would keep tweaking it until it matched. I was hoping there was a more accurate solution but I suppose as long I know this is what I have to do, it will be close enough to suit my/our needs.

[DrakeCanyonArchitecture]

No, the fascia is black (Although it looks like more of a charcoal), but the vertical corner trim and the board and batten and lap are all the exact same RGB color. These are the materials that I tweaked the image brightness to get the color to come in a little better. I had been working in just the material browser and not the texture editor to adjust the color.

[ToanDN]

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@DrakeCanyonArchitecture wrote:

the vertical corner trim and the board and batten and lap are all the exact same RGB color. 

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Sounds like one using Tint color and the other Base color.

[DrakeCanyonArchitecture]

I actually have the base color set to white (255 255 255) with the tint color set the the Sherwin Williams color (112 108 101) and now I'm currently using the image fade and image brightness to dial in the color by sight. One image that I'm using for material is lighter than the other and that seems to be the biggest factor. It doesn't appear that I can just tint a material or assign a base color and the material will turn that color consistently between various materials. 

[barthbradley]

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@DrakeCanyonArchitecture wrote:

I was able to get a lot closer with the Image Brightness slider.

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Interesting.  Makes no sense, but interesting none-the-less. 

[ToanDN]

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@DrakeCanyonArchitecture wrote:

I actually have the base color set to white (255 255 255) with the tint color set the the Sherwin Williams color (112 108 101) and now I'm currently using the image fade and image brightness to dial in the color by sight. One image that I'm using for material is lighter than the other and that seems to be the biggest factor. It doesn't appear that I can just tint a material or assign a base color and the material will turn that color consistently between various materials. 

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The siding material has a base texture image + tint.  The trim material has a white base color + tint.  Obviously the base texture image is not white and that makes the difference.

[barthbradley]

I thought the Trim and Walls were using the EXACT same Project Material. Is this not so?  If so, then everything make sense now.  

[DrakeCanyonArchitecture]

No, different materials. I probably could use the same material for the vertical trim and board and batten and get away with it, but definitely have to use a different material for the lap siding.