I've been scrolling pinterest to find a good color to paint a door and trim in my bathroom and landed on this shade that was part of a color palette post. Not a huge AI fan, but I suck at visualization, so I took some photos of my bathroom and ran it through chatgpt with a screenshot of the color I liked and asked it to put the color on my door and the trim. I felt like it was the right choice and loved the way it looked in the bathroom, so I followed up by asking chatgpt if it could tell me what paint shades were available that could get me closest to the shade in the screenshot, and I happened upon one of AI's many shortcomings. It gave a few shades from different brands that ranged from yellow beige to dusty pink, none of which were even remotely in the family of the warm, grungy, muddy olive tone I was looking for. Next, I implored Google, looking for a website or app that might be able to scan paint shades from across different brands and tell me which my screenshot most resembled. Two seemed promising: My Perfect Color & Hex to Benjamin Moore. My Perfect Color allows users to upload photos, which it then analyzes to provide HEX, HSL, RGB (and a few other acronyms that I didn't bother to research) information for a selected color in the image. I cross checked this using the HEX to Pantone website, which gave me a pretty darn accurate rendering of the color I was searching for. Next came the most harrowing (and ultimately disappointing) step. I crossed my fingers and hoped that the Benjamin Moore repository contained the very specific (though I'd be willing to accept something in the general family of a disgustingly swampy olive green) shade I was looking for. After entering the HEX code, it provided a shade that would better be labeled "utter disappointment" AKA "Wrought Iron." If I was looking for "sad grey" I woulda said that. I ended the day not knowing if Wrought Iron genuinely was the closest shade BM had to the color I was looking for (wrong) or if the tech that the website was using was seriously flawed (sad). I spent the next day searching through the websites of Benjamin Moore, Sherwin Williams, and Valspar to see if any had a close match listed, though the longer I scrolled, the more the paint colors began to merge into one ominous creature of a color that haunted my nightmares. I feared I was losing my ability to distinguish colors and decided to no longer trust myself with this pursuit. I must mention that I decided to also take a trip to Lowe's, where their vast color wall seemed to shrink before my eyes when I noticed their sorely lacking decaying avocado green section. The paint counter attendant also mentioned that they aren't able to color match from a phone screen (lame). Alas, I come to you all humbly and in earnest: somebody plz tell me what color I gotta buy??????

Help finding a paint shade