In Revit, we often have to input RGB values for various color properties, such as shaded view colors for a particular material, or if you want a specific Paint color for a rendered material. To do this, you can use Paint.NET and the Color Picker tool – the resultant properties include the RGB values you need.
However, you may obtain a sample image of a material, but the color is irregular. For example, you scan in a paint sample and there is a color variation in the scanned image. Or perhaps you simply want to take a detailed pattern sample image and find out the average color of a particular part of that image.
Copy the DLL file from the extracted Average Color ZIP you downloaded into the ‘Effects’ folder, which is in you Paint.NET installation directory (for example: C:Program FilesPaint.NETEffects)
Open Paint.NET
Open the image you want to find an average color from.
Make a rectangular selection.
Click on the Effects menu – Average Color
Now click on the Color Picker tool (looks like an Eyedropper)
On the ‘Colors’ palette, click the More>> button
The RGB values for your selected color are shown.
In Revit, input those RGB values for the desired color or material
Realise this post is over a year old, but thought you might want to check out this tool http://instant-eyedropper.com/ – once installed you can just use a keyboard shortcut at any time to bring up the 'eye' to detect a colour, even in your browser etc. Been using it for a while and it's pretty handy.
Good tip. The good thing is that most decent image apps (including free) will have a sampling range as part of their colour selector tool.
Hi Luke,
Realise this post is over a year old, but thought you might want to check out this tool http://instant-eyedropper.com/ – once installed you can just use a keyboard shortcut at any time to bring up the 'eye' to detect a colour, even in your browser etc. Been using it for a while and it's pretty handy.
Ben