Bits-n-Bytes
Junction
Sue Wood
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It’s All About Colour
I thought this month when it is going darker earlier and the nights are drawing in, you might like some more fun and FREE tools to play with to help you decide on your colour palettes. I have been scouting about the internet for you and here are four different sites that have some nifty little tools to help you decide on colour.
The first two are
Colour Palette by DeGraeve and
Color Hunter, which have similar tools and offer a colour palette based on typing in the url (web link address) of the image to which you want to match your colours. Obviously this is geared towards web designers, but anything they can play with, so can we!!
I tested these out by using a photo from the web, which I then uploaded into my photobucket account (this is an image sharing web site). I used an image of the sun rising behind some trees. You enter the url image details, the image is retrieved and the colours are sampled and then presented in a palette for you with the hexadecimal values of the colours selected.
The colour palette generator provides you with a presentation of your image and both a dull and vibrant colour sampler. The Color hunter just shows the vibrant colour palette for a new image, but there is a toggle switch to see the muted palette.
You can create your own colour swatches by copying the colour codes into your photo editing program and depending on its options either create a JPG swatch or a Photoshop colour swatch (type CS) for example. I think this is great for matching backgrounds to a photo you have.
The third site, Color Toy, offers you the chance to enter your colour codes in either their RGB numbers or the hexadecimal version. You can see a complimentary colour scheme or if you feel daring click the random generator for some ‘unusual’ combinations!
The final site,
ColourScheme 2, has a more traditional colour generator based on a colour wheel and is similar to last month’s review of Kuler from Adobe. You select your colour and then choose complementary, triad, analogic and anything in between. The colour palette is shown along with variations and their equivalent hexadecimal codes.
This will give you hours of fun, creating different colour combinations and will be sure to occupy you on those dark evenings! See you next month for another review.
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