Mrs B brought me some Tulips yesterday, well they were either for me or for some mad experiment at her School.
Anyway, I liked the colour and thought I would have a go at one of those color swatch things...
Thank you everyone, this was done in 'Gimp' which is a free photo editing software app.
I simply put a black box on the bottom of my photo and then four white boxes on that. After that I selected a single color from each tulip and flood filled the relevant box below.
I am sure Cally had a much cleverer way to do it - Could you please share this with us? @cally
So sorry this has taken a little while to respond to! Not originally my idea (I got it from Junan Heath @paintdipper)
The way I do it for a horizontal bar is:
1) Resize the image to a number easily divisible by 5 along the horizontal side (I usually resize it lower to about 4000pixels).
2) Resize the canvas (note: image and canvas are VERY different) so that you are able to produce 5 square blocks of colour (e.g. 4000/5=800, so add 800pixels to the vertical canvas, keeping the other length the same). Make sure that it is set to
3) Add a new layer. This is a very important step, as otherwise colours from the extra bit of canvas bleed, causing weird colours.
4) Select the Rectangular Marquee Tool (in Photoshop - I don't know if it has another name in GIMP or similar). Under the "mode" box, select "fixed size" and then set the width and height to 800pixels.
5) Click and position box. Then select the Eyedropper Tool and click on a place in the photo where you want to take the colour from.
6) Using the Paint Bucket Tool, drop the colour into the box. You then have your first colour block.
7) Repeat steps 3-6 until all your blocks are in place. You may need to widen the last block so it fully fills the space (I can't get them all to line up properly!)
Obviously can be done with a horizontal or a vertical palette.
http://365project.org/tags/colour%20bar
Thanks @cally
I simply put a black box on the bottom of my photo and then four white boxes on that. After that I selected a single color from each tulip and flood filled the relevant box below.
I am sure Cally had a much cleverer way to do it - Could you please share this with us? @cally
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So sorry this has taken a little while to respond to! Not originally my idea (I got it from Junan Heath @paintdipper)
The way I do it for a horizontal bar is:
1) Resize the image to a number easily divisible by 5 along the horizontal side (I usually resize it lower to about 4000pixels).
2) Resize the canvas (note: image and canvas are VERY different) so that you are able to produce 5 square blocks of colour (e.g. 4000/5=800, so add 800pixels to the vertical canvas, keeping the other length the same). Make sure that it is set to
3) Add a new layer. This is a very important step, as otherwise colours from the extra bit of canvas bleed, causing weird colours.
4) Select the Rectangular Marquee Tool (in Photoshop - I don't know if it has another name in GIMP or similar). Under the "mode" box, select "fixed size" and then set the width and height to 800pixels.
5) Click and position box. Then select the Eyedropper Tool and click on a place in the photo where you want to take the colour from.
6) Using the Paint Bucket Tool, drop the colour into the box. You then have your first colour block.
7) Repeat steps 3-6 until all your blocks are in place. You may need to widen the last block so it fully fills the space (I can't get them all to line up properly!)
Obviously can be done with a horizontal or a vertical palette.
Here is one I made earlier (my favourite!) - http://365project.org/cally/365/2013-03-08
Thanks Cally.
@cally