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Talking About Color
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She and Smith know well the limits of the Internet, including imprecise color and misinformation.
"It's hard to discern the professional from others who have cut-and-pasted," Perls says. Blogging "has turned everyone into an expert because there's no way to prove and disprove."
Each mentions the same old wives' tale that appears on design blogs advising against painting a nursery yellow because the color will make a baby cry. Nonsense, they say.
If credibility is one problem, color variation is another. This is why cyber-surfing for paint is only step one, warns Smith, a speaker last week at House Beautiful magazine's Color Institute at the Washington Design Center. Given the way computer monitors can distort color, she sees no substitute for painting directly on a large piece of poster board or a Tru-Hue color test board, which mimics a wall surface, then studying it in natural and artificial light.
"A computer can do a lot of things better than humans," Smith says, "but matching color is not one of them."
Staff writer Terri Sapienza contributed to this report.
