On Dec 20, 2007 6:57 AM, Cory K. <<a href="mailto:coryisatm@nc.rr.com">coryisatm@nc.rr.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Andrew Laignel wrote:<br>> Adobe provide an amazing resource for creating and picking colour<br>> palettes at <a href="http://kuler.adobe.com/" target="_blank">http://kuler.adobe.com/</a> Just typing 'brown' into the search
<br>> box gets some quite nice pre-made selections for colourschemes. It's<br>> Flash 9 only though :(<br></div></blockquote><div><br>Very nice.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Troy showed me this one:<br><a href="http://www.wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html" target="_blank">http://www.wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html</a><br></blockquote></div><br>This one isn't as nice but it does have the "contrast" option for a color theme.
<br><br>I was researching this subject last week and came across this:<br><a href="http://jrm.cc/color-palette-generator/">http://jrm.cc/color-palette-generator/</a><br><br>You upload an image and it generates a color palette based on the colors of the image. Seems very useful.
<br><br>Googling for "color theory" should return some informative results on how this is done. Still, I've seen artists do this by eye and come up with spectacular results that make any auto-generated theme look calculated and mathematical.
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