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Palette Generator

The folks at Big Huge Labs have created quite a library of goodies that can interact with your Flickr account. I particularly like the Palette Generator (which works with or without a Flickr account).

As you can see, it works better from photos than it does from illustrations though. It seemed to have trouble locating the pinks and reds in my work, but that may be because of all the white space that makes up the file. Still, if you want to generate a rough palette for an illustration from a photograph you like, this is a quick and fun way of doing it.

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  • http://www.boygirlparty.com/ boygirlparty

    this has got to be the coolest thing i have ever seen.

  • http://www.boygirlparty.com/ boygirlparty

    this has got to be the coolest thing i have ever seen.

  • http://www.boygirlparty.com boygirlparty

    this has got to be the coolest thing i have ever seen.

  • briannaorg

    I built a palette generator for IF last month, and noticed the same thing – that if I didn’t explicitly tell it to seek out the more saturated colors, I often would end up with fifteen shades of peach or white or whatever was most prevalent in the file. So I “taught” it to always grab the reds. :)

  • briannaorg

    I built a palette generator for IF last month, and noticed the same thing – that if I didn’t explicitly tell it to seek out the more saturated colors, I often would end up with fifteen shades of peach or white or whatever was most prevalent in the file. So I “taught” it to always grab the reds. :)