Pick a Colour Scheme

by Domestik Goddess on October 25, 2007

color picker tool - sample colour scheme Craft projects or decor, wardrobe planning, website design, or even landscape and garden planning — whatever you create, much of your success will depend on an attractive colour palette that has balance and harmony.

There are lots of fun colour scheme tools online, but only one that I count as an essential colour planning utility, coming back to it time and time again for design inspiration — Pic2Color.

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What makes Pic2Color different from most color-picking tools is one simple trick. You give it the URL of a picture, or browse your computer for a saved photo, or just let the tool pick one at random and see what happens…. Pic2Color will create a colour scheme for you, using the hues of that image.

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1 Anne Maybus 10.26.07 at 2:59 am

How cool is that? That should save a lot of headaches and arguments!

2 Kate 10.26.07 at 10:56 am

I really like that! It’s a great find.

BTW, I haven’t forgotten that you tagged me for a meme, it’s on my list of things to do.

3 Mitchell Allen 10.26.07 at 7:02 pm

This is really neat! Now, the next step is to go to http://themes.wordpress.net/ and check the themes with your new colors.

Digitally adept folk can simply edit their CSS. (groan)

Thanks for sharing this tool!

Cheers,

Mitch

4 Mary Emma Allen 10.26.07 at 9:15 pm

Thanks for finding and sharing this idea, Jen. I haven’t tried it yet, but I’ve sent the link to your post and pick2color to my daughter, who does a great deal of art quilting.

5 Mary Emma Allen 10.26.07 at 9:16 pm

P.S. I’m going to mention your post at Quilting and Patchwork. I’m sure my readers will be interested.

6 domestika 10.26.07 at 10:29 pm

@Anne, I’m all in favour of saving headaches and arguments!

@Kate, bless your heart, sounds like your “to do” list is as long as mine… and ‘ll bet it grows, two more items on it every time you knock one off, right?

@Mitch, good plan — so easy to match up font colours with an image header, to customize a website or blog theme.

@Mary Emma, thanks for sharing this with your talented daughter, and on your blog too!

Oh, yes, Pic2Color could be useful for planning a quilt, couldn’t it? And I was thinking that digital scrapbooking would benefit — that’s one creative area I haven’t dipped a finger in yet, but keep finding myself so tempted, it’s only a matter of time!

When you try it out, you’ll notice that once the colours have been selected, you’ve got the option to click on any one of them and go in deeper to explore some variations and refine the selection. I just find this so fascinating!

7 Guilherme Zühlke O'Connor 10.27.07 at 7:54 am

Great tool!

One of my favorites is Kuler, which is not as easy to use as this one (as you need some theory), but is very powerful.

8 sivam 10.27.07 at 8:30 am

What is special about pic2color is that it is not based on color theory. Any one can come up with great color schemes.

9 michele 10.29.07 at 12:00 am

This is just wonderful for me as a color consultant and a natural artist. Thanks!

10 Li 05.29.08 at 4:31 am

Thanx a lot!! It was exacty what I was looking for!!!

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