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Mike, went to the local Sears store and the color chips in that area were missing. Person responsible said he may have some in a few weeks. I tried the 1-800-PAINTS number you list and they said they did not have chips to send and that they must be obtained from the store.
Looking at the nearby chips in tyhe store, all of them had at least 4 colors per chip. From what I've been reading in the e-mails it sounded as each chip had only one color.
Joe S
----- Original Message -----From: Mike RussellSent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 4:52 PMSubject: [curvemeister] A free neutral card!Clyde has done it! After a lengthy search, he has discovered a Sears paint chip that is very close to a dead neutral. If any of you have priced out neutral gray cards, you know they cost a finite amount of money. For example, there is no way I would use my 90 dollar ColorChecker in rainy weather, but a free paint chip is something that I can carry around in my camera bag, and use, abuse, and lose with no regrets.The paint chip is Sears Easy Living WeatherBeater KK33 (dated 1/05 bottom right corner), You may get this card free at most Sears paint stores. If you cannot access a Sears Store, try calling the US number 1-800-9-PAINTS M-F during working hours and see if they will mail you the KK33 / 2491 card - let the rest of us know how it goes.You may paste the following values into your pin file and use them as neutral pins. Be sure to replace the <tab> with an actual tab character when doing so.kk331 <tab> Lab(68.28,-0.20, 0.06)
kk332 <tab> Lab(42.72, 0.72,-0.93)
kk333 <tab> Lab(39.46,-0.78,-1.13)Although the values are given to two decimals, the actual a and b values are only accurate to plus or minus 1.0 or so. These pins will be available shortly on the Curvemeister page:For those of you in other countries, or who would like other paint chips scanned, I will do a spectrophotometer scan of any paint chips that are mailed to me, and email you back a pin file containing the Photoshop Lab values.Clyde is working on other colors as well, and I hope that he will share some of his results here.
Mike Russell1968 Hopkins StreetBerkeley, CA 94707
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