Local auto body guy offers that service to his customers.
Problem is, most of the time, it's not accurate.
Sun light and an LCD are totally different colors, thus affects the outcome.
He has run into this before and had to add a disclaimer to the site that it should be used for entertainment purposes only and should not be relied upon for actual results.
He doesn't do much of it anymore and that's probably a good thing. He can, however, load a known paint formula into his system, use photoshop to give you an idea of what it'll look like, but until it's sprayed and the sunlight hits it, it's just a guide to give you an idea. And of course, it's not free. There have been times when an owner wanted the color to be a little differently shaded than a known formula, but there was no formula for the custom color, so they had to mix something up-and it didn't come out quite like the owner wanted on a test panel. I've had this happen to me on my old F150 that I wanted a certain color. They had to custom mix to get it, and even then after the color was laid down on the truck, it was a little different. I was fine with it but it wasn't really what I wanted. Just the color mixing process was a 4 hour ordeal in my case. At today's labor rate of about $100/hr, it'd be $400 just to mix up a custom color....NOT counting the actual work in paint/prep.
