
Second Quarter Challenge
This quarters challenge is using a photo to generate a colour palette to work with. Often you have a photo that has colours that are really appealing but its not easy to pick out all the colours. There are some great palette generators on line. They can help you find all the colours in a picture.
Some generators only give you a few colours some give you a complete palette. I used my Easter soap picture to try them out. Some had a hard time with the yellow and the deep pink but generated nice palettes.
These first 2 are advertised to generate palettes from photos. The first is http://www.degraeve.com/color-palette/ It gives you 2 palettes from the picture but only 5 colours each. It gave me red for the pink and completely ignored the yellow.
The second one I liked was http://www.palettefx.com/ It gives you a better range of colours and the colours were more accurate to the picture. The nice thing is that if you click on any colour in the palette it gives you the compliment and the triad.
I thought some people might like to break their pictures into colour and pattern to make a felt picture. I tried a couple of cross stitch pattern generators.
This one http://www.pic2pat.com/index.en.html generates 19 possible cross stich patterns each one uses a different number of colours. It will generate a palette and pattern if you click on them.
Than I tried this one http://stitchboard.com/pages/pattern/freePatternWizard.php It will make a beading, crochet, cross stich or knitting pattern. It has lots of options and if you join( it says it is free) you have even more options. I did it as a cross stitch pattern.
I couldn’t find any for other kinds of stitching so I googled quilt pattern generator and found the Victoria and Albert museum. http://www.vam.ac.uk/microsites/quilts/patchwork It creates a much more abstract picture. You can up load your own picture or you can use pictures from the museum. The thing I didn’t like is the colours are not bright. The yellow is mustard and not sun yellow.
I hope that you find these useful and inspirational when you try this quarters challenge of using a picture to pick your palette for making a felt piece. Remember you don’t have to use all the colours in any palette and you could split it and use some in the felt and some in stitching or beading you add after the felting. Please show us what you do here: http://feltandfiberstudio.proboards.com/thread/2196/second-quarter-challenge-2015
19 thoughts on “Second Quarter Challenge”
I was just saying to my husband that I needed something to jog my creative mojo and literally, in the next breath, as if by magic – just like Mr Benn 😉 – the 2nd quarter challenge was there, ready to be clicked. Thanks! 🙂
I am so glad my timing was spot on. Can’t wait to see what you post on the felt and fiber forum when you are done
I’m looking forward to this challenge Ann. Now to decide what photo to use…
I can see that Ruth, you post so many beautiful photos of where you live
I had no idea there were so many color and pattern generators out there. Like Ruth, now to find that photo or picture to use.
Try the same picture in several and see what you get.
Ann, this color palette generator is totally new to me. Looking forward to exploring the possibilities.
I had seen the cross stitch pattern makers before but the others are batter for just getting good colour combos.
I’ve used Photoshop for things like this for years, but you have to work out the colours yourself, so these are a really good idea. I like the palettefix one with complementary colours.
I liked that one too. Funny that one ignored the green. I would like to find one that gave you proportions too.
Great stuff!
Glad you like it Lyn. You seem to do pretty well on your own
I love this! I have to find a photo to work with and give it a try.
Great, have fun with it.