Pictaculous Pulls Colour Palettes From Images

@cottonfox: Yes it can, but GIMP can also be used to generate pallets. Just take your image, or a selection from it, and apply Filters/Blur/Pixelize.... You can customize how many colors it generates. Then you can generate a palette from that. You can also convert the image from RGB to indexed and create a palette from the indexed colors.

penguiniator

@Matt Rolston: Like the 'k' in knife? Or the the last 't' in 'Matt'? :-)

shrik

@Fierock: I'm in the same boat too! Colorblind designers unite! ;)

VernonKes

I love this app but I've seen a few others that already do something similar but I'll have to give it a whirl. Give's designs an insight into what base colour's are recommended for component design which is interest and helpful :)

shaneiadt

@Matt Rolston: What yo- mentioned in regards the letter - is q-ite -nimportant and if yo- decide not to see them or register them that's yo-r problem :)

shaneiadt

@Matt Rolston: Yeah, I find that "U" in "USA" superfluous too. My dictionary doesn't seem to find the "u" in "colour" superfluous...

Lincoln Donaldson

I would like to use this to choose paint color and/or draperies. How would I use it? Right now I have my furniture but my walls are all off white and I have no draperies yet. i was thinking of taking pictures of my furniture and a picture of a drapery fabric I like and blending the furniture and drapery fabric into a single image and then uploading it. Is there a better way? How do professional interior designers choose colors?

mrbelvedr

[www.cssdrive.com]
Been helpful in the past.

Aarrrgh

does anyone know how to/if GIMP can import those fancy .aco swatches the site produces?

cottonfox

Wow this tool is fab!

But be careful not to upload a graphic larger than 500k or else you'll get a colour palette based on an image missing file rather than the actual pic. I did this when I forgot to check my file size! - You'll know it worked (apart from seeing colours that look right) because you'll see your uploaded image next to your colour palette instead of an image missing gif.

KittyKittyKitty

@Fierock: Haha, I'm in the exactly the same situation. Getting the colours right is just a pain, and at the moment, my photoshop colour settings are also messed up, so not only do they look different to me than they do to everyone else, but they also look different in Photoshop than anywhere else (When exported as say a Jpg is fine though :S)

tylerf

A missed opportunity for blog post title alliteration.

"Powerful Pictaculous Pulls Perfect Palettes from Pictures."

I am SO unsubscribing now.

rondalescott

As a colorblind guy with a recently rekindled interest in web design, this is awesome! Creating a color palette is the most intimidating part to me because it sets the tone and can make or break a good design. Despite my color deficiencies I can just tell when the colors jive - and I like what I see from the recommended swatches.

I know there are other tools like this but as always Lifehacker always seems to blog stuff at just the right time...

Reminds me of pic2color, which I've used in the past
[www.pic2color.com]

I think it was through researching pic2color that I found out about ColourLovers in the first place. It's cool to have the community from ColourLovers with the palette from photos tool

@Matt Rolston: It's part of the name of the site, even though the founder is from the US.

@Matt Rolston: I take it you also don't like neighbour, humour, or favourite?

I hate the "u" in "colour" - it's as superfluous as the word I just used to describe it.

Matt Rolston

@Kyle Houston: The thing is integrated with kuler and COLOURlovers (both of which I have spent time on, though the latter is about twenty times better now).

Adobe Photoshop has one of these tools built into it, at least CS4 does as far as I know. The name of it is Kuler and can be found either through Windows>Extensions>Kuler in Photoshop CS4, or at [kuler.adobe.com]

Kyle Houston

This seems like a great tool, I have never been very good picking color that go good with am image.

jnhagerm