Comments on: How To Mix Colors To Match – Automotive Interior Dyes http://theinteriorguyllc.com/mix-to-match-interior-dye/ Your Personal Automotive Upholstery Professional Sun, 25 Jul 2010 23:52:14 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Mike-TIG http://theinteriorguyllc.com/mix-to-match-interior-dye/comment-page-1/#comment-1599 Mike-TIG Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:40:10 +0000 http://theinteriorguyllc.com/?p=952#comment-1599 Well since I match all my colors by eye its hard for me to really give you a good review on a spectro, never used one. I do know the guys over at Viper Products have got a really good system, here go check this out and let me know what you think, http://viperproducts.com . If you call them talk to Randy or Tom and they can tell you all you will need to know on this subject. To me they are kinda a waste of time and money...Tom's gonna kill me for this, but really matching colors by eye really isn't that hard to do. If you know your colors and know what they can do there's nothing stopping you from learning other then time sitting down and practicing. Just get a few samples of vinyl from an upholstery shop and sit down with your colors and play, that's how I learned to do it, seriously... A color wheel will help you to tweak a color but you need a base first. Getting that base color just takes a little knowledge, the tweaking takes the skill of seeing the color next to the color your trying to achieve and then knowing what is missing and knowing what color you need to grab to get you to the right color. I always put a little dab of dye on or near the area I'm trying match, dry it, then look to see if the color is too yellow, or too light, or too red, or too dark, or even too green or too purple. Sometimes a color will appear too light but only needs to be richened with a little color because it's what I call milked out, that's when there's too much white, sometimes adding a little dark brown will help instead of grabbing the black. I use a lot of dark brown in my mixes, probably more then black, especially for darkening a color. Black will sometimes cancel out a color and give it a green or even a blue tint. I'll also look to see if a color is missing like if it's too gray, like to bright, and needs to be dirtied up with a little with yellow oxide or red oxide. Most of your gray's are really a shade of brown, yes they have black in them but you will use a lot of brown in the mix. I've also found I use a lot of yellow oxide more then red oxide. Seems like most of the gray's and tan's these days lean more towards the yellow side. It takes practice, but I think as long as your not color blind that anyone can learn to mix colors. Well good luck with your venture and don't hesitate to contact me if you get in a pinch with a color, maybe I can coach you a bit on matching it up... Talk to ya soon, Mike "TIG" Well since I match all my colors by eye its hard for me to really give you a good review on a spectro, never used one. I do know the guys over at Viper Products have got a really good system, here go check this out and let me know what you think, http://viperproducts.com . If you call them talk to Randy or Tom and they can tell you all you will need to know on this subject.
To me they are kinda a waste of time and money…Tom’s gonna kill me for this, but really matching colors by eye really isn’t that hard to do. If you know your colors and know what they can do there’s nothing stopping you from learning other then time sitting down and practicing. Just get a few samples of vinyl from an upholstery shop and sit down with your colors and play, that’s how I learned to do it, seriously…
A color wheel will help you to tweak a color but you need a base first. Getting that base color just takes a little knowledge, the tweaking takes the skill of seeing the color next to the color your trying to achieve and then knowing what is missing and knowing what color you need to grab to get you to the right color. I always put a little dab of dye on or near the area I’m trying match, dry it, then look to see if the color is too yellow, or too light, or too red, or too dark, or even too green or too purple. Sometimes a color will appear too light but only needs to be richened with a little color because it’s what I call milked out, that’s when there’s too much white, sometimes adding a little dark brown will help instead of grabbing the black. I use a lot of dark brown in my mixes, probably more then black, especially for darkening a color. Black will sometimes cancel out a color and give it a green or even a blue tint. I’ll also look to see if a color is missing like if it’s too gray, like to bright, and needs to be dirtied up with a little with yellow oxide or red oxide.
Most of your gray’s are really a shade of brown, yes they have black in them but you will use a lot of brown in the mix. I’ve also found I use a lot of yellow oxide more then red oxide. Seems like most of the gray’s and tan’s these days lean more towards the yellow side.
It takes practice, but I think as long as your not color blind that anyone can learn to mix colors.
Well good luck with your venture and don’t hesitate to contact me if you get in a pinch with a color, maybe I can coach you a bit on matching it up…

Talk to ya soon,
Mike “TIG”

]]> By: Mike http://theinteriorguyllc.com/mix-to-match-interior-dye/comment-page-1/#comment-1595 Mike Sun, 11 Oct 2009 22:50:38 +0000 http://theinteriorguyllc.com/?p=952#comment-1595 Mike, Do you have any thoughts on color matching tools such as the spectro and differences between them? MB Mike,

Do you have any thoughts on color matching tools such as the spectro and differences between them?

MB

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]]> By: Mike-TIG http://theinteriorguyllc.com/mix-to-match-interior-dye/comment-page-1/#comment-1413 Mike-TIG Sun, 10 May 2009 23:05:33 +0000 http://theinteriorguyllc.com/?p=952#comment-1413 Thanks Paul for your comment, wasn't sure if you would when I saw you the other day at Jamie's lot, but you did....coool! See ya soon and give me call if you need anything, you know my lines are always open...:) Later - Mike "TIG" Thanks Paul for your comment, wasn’t sure if you would when I saw you the other day at Jamie’s lot, but you did….coool!
See ya soon and give me call if you need anything, you know my lines are always open…:)

Later – Mike “TIG”

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]]> By: Paul White http://theinteriorguyllc.com/mix-to-match-interior-dye/comment-page-1/#comment-1407 Paul White Fri, 08 May 2009 03:11:29 +0000 http://theinteriorguyllc.com/?p=952#comment-1407 very helpful Mike thanks very helpful Mike thanks

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