Guild Wars 2

I’m wondering what colors were used for this armor.

The darker color seems to be graphite perhaps?
The other seems silver but I have a feeling it’s not. My gf has silver and it’s much brighter than that.
A sort of lucid steel?

From what I can see, the guy in the picture is being illuminated from behind. I don’t think it can be determined for sure the type of color of the armor, because it might as well be plain silver or something else not really dark in color.

There’s a really neat tool that will tell you what GW2 dye matches a particular color:
http://pendiongaming.com/gw2/dyesearch.php?h=f81e34

You can upload an image and get matches from the main colors in it, so a downsized screenshot might work. Lighting is definitely an issue though – it can throw the colors off because there are so many different shades. It also doesn’t take into account how some dyes affect the shaders, so it will get you in the ball park colorwise, but not necessarily get you to the exact dye someone used.

If you notice someone looking particularly spiffy, your best path is to ask them what they have on.

Pandemoniac.4739:

There’s a really neat tool that will tell you what GW2 dye matches a particular color:
http://pendiongaming.com/gw2/dyesearch.php?h=f81e34

You can upload an image and get matches from the main colors in it, so a downsized screenshot might work. Lighting is definitely an issue though – it can throw the colors off because there are so many different shades. It also doesn’t take into account how some dyes affect the shaders, so it will get you in the ball park colorwise, but not necessarily get you to the exact dye someone used.

If you notice someone looking particularly spiffy, your best path is to ask them what they have on.

Interesting… how well does it deal with the fact that the same dye on different materials is displayed as a different colour?

Jestunhi.7429:

Interesting… how well does it deal with the fact that the same dye on different materials is displayed as a different colour?

It doesn’t – it just gets you close to the hue for the matte materials I think. I think there are some dyes that are more than just color as well. The tool is just an approximation, similar to the way the 3D viewer on gw2db or guildhead is – it doesn’t show the full in-game effect with shaders particles etc.

Boojum posted a guide to hues and lightness a while back: http://i.imgur.com/AWPpW.png

Maybe that will help you narrow it down more.

I dug up a screenshot of my ranger and I know exactly what dyes she has on in it – Midnight Sky, Antique Gold, Earthen.

The dye search turned up River, Midnight Ice, and Royal Blue when I uploaded the screenshot. Even cropped, the background and the lighting made it difficult for the automated algorithm.

I auto-leveled the cropped image then used a dropper in Paint.Net to get the RGB Values and Midnight Sky showed up in the HSL result for the blue, along with Midnight Violet, Sapphire, and Midnight Blue in the other choices. It narrows the possibilities, but it doesn’t necessarily get you all the way there.