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Choose Web Colors by Photo

By Scott Loganbill June 3, 2008 Categories: Visual Design, Web Basics

Designing sites from photos is the easiest way to cheat your way into a great-looking interface. Using photos means you don’t have to learn how to draw. AtalaSoft’s Color Scheme generator makes it convenient to design your site around your photo by creating color schemes from color photos.

This is great news for those of us who are colorblind or simply too lazy to figure out the specifics of color charts and Pantones.

Find a picture that would make a great masthead or background image. Plug the image into the color generator and get a list of colors and their hashed color codes culled directly from the image and a healthy number that just matches. Fill in your CSS and HTML color tags with the codes and you have a site that looks marvelous next to that picture.

If you just want to browse by color, we still recommend Adobe’s kuler (Windows) and cocoaKuler (Mac OS X), which provide handy menus of color schemes.


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