I’m always struggling to come up with good color themes. I was reading the Xplane blog tonight and came across this interesting technique: use the mosaic filter in Photoshop to blow up the pixels in photographs and show the basic colors. You can then use the palettes for your work. I did it on a couple of vacation shots, and here are the results.
Check out Adobe’s Kuler for a much easier way to build beautiful color themes.
Very nice. I’ll have to give that a try. I’ve taken to stealing color schemes from others.
I was reading some Chris Ware interview and he admitted that he had ripped off his color palette from one single page — I can’t remember if it was Richard McGuire or Joost Swarte. It might not have been either one.