Design Color Scheme From A Photograph

Design Color Scheme From A Photograph

As a designer I find inspiration for color schemes from all over. From architecture, nature, to paintings and photographs. I’ve driven by houses with a great color scheme and thought to myself “That would make a great color scheme for a website!”.

Using Photoshop’s Filter > Pixelate > Mosaic, we can grab a photograph and find a great scheme from it! Hover the below photos to see the scheme they produce at 65 cell size. Photographs with a wide array of colors will work best.

5 Comments
  1. JJ February 2, 201012:53 pm

    Awesome. Great photos too.

  2. Sean February 2, 20103:04 pm

    Good thinkin my friend I would not have thought of that but of course I had no reason to LOL.

  3. Scott Smith March 26, 201010:37 pm

    Awesome idea dude! another way to do it is just open a picture in paint and resize an image to very small then open it up again!

  4. Rifter May 20, 20108:21 am

    Another way to pull out a color swatch, is to run it through Kuler: http://kuler.adobe.com/

    I use that to pull out color swatches from my photographs.

  5. Sherwood Kohn November 4, 20104:16 pm

    awesome pictures

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