Wednesday, 2 December 2009

Wednesday Web - Colour Palette Generator


 

I've discovered a really cool web tool which is perfect for picking colours for quilts - a colour palette generator. Just upload a photo like the one above and in a few moments you have a palette like this:


Isn't that brilliant?!! It's free to use at Big Huge Labs  -  BUT before you go read my tip below on resizing photos!

Resizing Photos:
Digital cameras now take photos which are very large files and if you upload these to the internet they take ages. You can resize your photos very easily using a free 'Image Resizer' program from Microsoft which makes uploading photos so much quicker:
  1. First download then install the programme from here (scroll down to find 'Image Resizer')
  2. Now find the folder where you store your photos
  3. Right click on a photo and choose 'resize image'
  4. Choose from small, medium or large -I usually use medium
  5. Image resizer now makes a copy of your photo at this new size
  6. You can resize many photos at once by selecting them all before right clicking and resizing
I use it to resize all the photos for my blog and my photos upload really quickly - have a go, its really easy!

5 comments:

  1. I,m just browsing your blog, I like the colour idea, I have joined you as a follower, would you like to take a look at my blog. I live in the east midlands--cottonreel

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  2. The colour palette could really come in handy if you were doing a landscape quilt. Thanks for the tip, Jessica

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  3. great stuff thanks! I am going to give it a go now, My Daughter is getting married in March next year and this will be perfect for helping me colour coordinate too.

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  4. I like the color selector - I always struggle with color but it's easy to find photos I like.

    I always pick the medium size photo on Flickr for my blog. Does this resize it like the website you mentioned?

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  5. Love the idea of the colour palette

    Love and hugs Gina xx

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