Web Help: Color Palette Generator

I use photoshop's eyedropper tool to pull color profiles from images, but I know that not everyone has photoshop...and even if you do, you might just fall in love with this Color Palette Generator (found via Nicole Tattersall) because it will do all the work for you.  Simply insert the direct image link and presto-change-o before your eyes will appear a lovely little color palette for you to use it whatever inspiring way you'd like.  Have fun!

Here's how it works:

• Open image page (images must be hosted online (such as flickr, blogs, etc.) for this program to work)
• Right-click the image
• Select "View Image"
• Select and copy the URL at the top of the screen (this should look like a link that ends with .jpg)
• Copy and paste this link into the proper section on the Color Palette Generator site and click the "Color-palette-ify" button.
• Ta-daa!

Note: If you are using images on flickr or another site they may be copyright protected and therefore will not show up when you follow the steps above. xox Ez

Comments

[desiree fawn]

Oh my word!

This is incredible!!

Thank you so much for sharing.

[Kitty]

brilliant!! WOW! thank you for sharing!

[cake.]

ahhhh! this is so wonderful!

[{kiss my spatula}]

amazing - love this! thanks so much for sharing!

[catherine_sr.]

What a great tool!!! Thank you so much for posting about it.

[Laurel]

oh wow this is a great tool! thanks!

[Agnes D.]

very cool. thanks!

[Mandi]

this is great! I have photoshop and use the eyedropper tool as well, but the problem is when you want to have the overall color, but there are so many variations in an image. So this is great!

[Amanda Nicole]

Oh wow, tons of fun! Thank you for sharing.

[Rafa!]

I love the generator! Awesome!

[Get Togetha]

This is an awesome tool...

Will share with my readers...

GT

[bastisRIKE]

perhaps you like this two links too:

http://colorschemedesigner.com

http://www.knorrpage.de/colormatch.html (doesn't work in firefox, but in internetexplorer)

those two can help you to find nice matching colors ...

[Lauren]

What a lovely little idea, great for generating inspirations and knowing what colour to look for to cooridinate a room or a theme! Brilliant!

[Caitlin]

thanks for that info - it was really useful and fun!!

[gemmifer]

This is such a great tool! I've been teaching myself Illustrator and will have a lot of fun translating color schemes to my designs. Thanks for sharing!

PS: Love your blog very much!

[steven]

wowzer i love it and many hours of fun is to be had, but how do i get the generated color palette so i can show it on my blog like you did ?... please help little silly me ..x

[Jacquelyn]

Love it!

[Down Pillow]

I don't have photoshop, nor do I really need it for that matter, but this is so cool :)

[handbags]

love those images! really elegant.

[Kate J]

colourlover.com works really well, too. You can pick which colors to take from the photo instead of them choosing for you.

[Felicity]

Thanks for sharing. What a great tool.

[Hannah]

this may be an old post but it's new to me! i do have photoshop, but you know, sometimes you just want to be lazy—in a good way ;) thanks for sharing this wonderful resource!

[beka {ginger*urchin}]

This is awesome! I've been wanting do do this kind of thing for a while now other than using the colour picker from Photoshop. I have been told that http://www.colourlovers.com/ is another way of doing this online, but yours seems so much simpler. Thank you for sharing this :)

[Holly]

Man...this would be awesome if it still worked! Any thoughts?

[Ez]

Oh dear! It was working for me just recently. Hopefully the site is just having a temporary glitch and will be up again soon. I'll keep an eye on it. Thanks for letting me know about the issue Holly. x Ez