May
26
2005
Instant Color Palettes for Web Designers

I somehow stumbled across this blog post which provides a brilliantly simple way to devise color schemes for web sites or other projects (something I often have trouble with). Just poke around a stock photography site, find a picture you like, and save it. Then load it up in Photoshop, apply the “Mosaic” filter, and voila! — Instant color palette. Genius!

When I (re)designed this site, I tried picking colors from the banner image above to provide heading colors and such, but I never thought to “pixellate” the image to simplify things.

In case you were wondering, the scene in the banner is a picture I took of Halibut Point State Park, which is where I proposed to my finacée, Anastasia. The color levels were tweaked a bit to suit my purposes, but it’s a beautiful place, even without Photoshop :)

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