Color Palette Generators

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.

http://ornadesign.blogspot.com/

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.

http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/colors.php

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.

http://www.degraeve.com/color-palette/

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

Belated Birthday Wishes

Yesterday was President's Day, the combined birthday holiday for government employees to celebrate Washington's and Lincoln's birthdays. I meant to post about it yesterday but ran out of time. After all, most Americans don't have this day off work and I had other things to occupy me. So here's a belated Happy Birthday to both Presidents.

Petei has small Abe and George & Martha Washington canvases plus several non-Presidental but patriotic designs. http://www.petei.com/line_list/line_july_4th.htm

The artist Richard Saja has stitched Young Mr. Lincoln. He's doing a series of embroideries on toile fabrics which you can see in part if you explore his blog.
http://historically-inaccurate.blogspot.com/2009/02/young-mr-lincoln.html

Enjoy!

Jane/Chilly Hollow
Main blog at http://blog.360.yahoo.com/chillyhollow