Trying out some colors

[hrj]

Through the magic of Photoshop (and some template construction by my Photoshop-savvy downstairs tennant) I can try out some sample color schemes for the house without having to slap paint on the walls. These are quite rough -- I'm not so good at the whole color-tweaking process, and it took a lot of trial and error to figure out how to do the global color-substitution on the various layers. But here are some sketches :

Here's one that C. put together based on the color chip we'd been talking about -- a sort of burgundy for the trim and a paler version of the same for the walls.



Here's my attempt to do something similar, with a slightly bluer version of the purple -- not so successful. Way too PURPLE.



But here's one where I was trying out a combination of a more greenish-tinged gray for the walls, with burgundy trim.



And just for fun, here's the previous, but with the trim done in a darker version of the color range used for the walls. Nice, but a bit too similar to the color scheme of the house I grew up in (which probably imprinted itself a bit too firmly on my color-sense).



The computer manipulation is slow enough for me that I don't think I'm going to do too many more versions. (And I'm getting a little frustrated at how hard it is to make it do the color I'm visualizing.) I'm running into the same problem I have with choosing clothes: I want to try something "different" but only a limited range of possibilities feels right. But I rather like both #1 and #3 -- possibly #3 a bit more, but maybe that's just because I did that one myself. What do you-all think?

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#2 is pretty garish all the way around.