You may have noticed that Orna Willis is posting about color on her blog. She chooses a skein of overdyed thread and analyzes the colors in it with color palette tools, then posts a photo of the original with the bars of color pulled from it on her website.
She's using software that analyzes photos. This is also available for you to use at home. Here is an online tool that allows you to upload a photo from your computer. It will pull the colors from it for you in fairly great detail. Push the Browse button to find an image on your computer, then push Create to get an idea of the colors in it. I used the portrait of Kaffee Fassett above to pull out fifteen shades of purples and corals (but the blue of his t-shirt was ignored) from the photo.
This color tool pulls ten colors from a website image URL but arranges them into five Vibrant and five Subdued shades. Paste your URL into the box and then push Color-Palette-ify. Again, the blue of his shirt was ignored. These tools seem to pull only the most prominent colors.
Why is this important? Those of you trying to choose colors for Tony Minieri's Glittering Kimono design on the ANG website can pick either an online photo whose colors you love (the Degraeve color palette tool) or one saved to your computer (the Big Huge Lab color palette tool), and discover just what colors made up the image. Then you can go looking for an overdye and solid colors in your stash to match and create your version of this charted design.
Jane/Chilly Hollow
Main blog at http://blog.360.yahoo.com/chillyhollow
Jane/Chilly Hollow
Main blog at http://blog.360.yahoo.com/chillyhollow
3 comments:
Very cool - I've got to go try this RIGHT NOW!!!!
I just did! How cool is that?
These are great tools to play with and I hope they help with color selection for charted projects. Enjoy!
Post a Comment