[thelist] making a color choice
Boerner, Brian J
brian.j.boerner at lmco.com
Thu Feb 26 14:32:55 CST 2004
i often use this to get unusual yet nice combos
http://www.defencemechanism.com/color/color_toy_fr.htm
np. PJ "Breakerfall"
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Hi
I've just been doing a fashion site and I thought the clothes all came
from a similar palette. I took a sample square from each photograph and
arranged them on a new image so they completely covered the image, then I
reduced the image to as near to 1 pixel x 1 pixel as I could. That gave me
an 'average' colour. I reversed it to get a possible highlight or rollover
colour. Then I took shades of those colours.
I often pick colours from photographs. Prior to the fashion site, I picked
a colour from a sky photograph for an outdoors-type site. And prior to
that, for a kitchen site, I chose a green from a lettuce photograph, and a
red and blue/black from a raspberry and blackberry pic respectively.
Then there are colour wheels to understand, triads and complements and all
that.
I've the following bookmarked:
Color pro web server: www.biola.edu/cgi-bin/colorpro/
WebColor:
www.macworld.com/cgi-bin/software.pl/TelecomInternet/Software.767.html
www.reallybig.com/visibone/lab/
www.colorschemer.com/online/
http://www.colorschemer.com/online/
http://www.worqx.com/color/index.htm
http://www.tigercolor.com/ColorLab/Default.htm
http://www.tigercolor.com/Features1.htm
http://www.inetis.com/freeware.asp
plus these on colour theory:
www.photonics.com/dictionary
www.nebulus.org/tutorials/2d/photoshop/color
www.colourworld.co.uk
www.rit.edu/~nxspph/courses/fci/lectures/lec8_color.ppt
www.cie.org
I love colour, it's free :-)
J
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