Showing posts with label kuler. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kuler. Show all posts

Saturday, May 29, 2010

Kuler Challenge

When I was playing around with kuler yesterday, this is the scheme that got me really excited

From Kuler


From Kuler

NB// The colour on the end isn't black, it's actually a really deep grape.

I just love it. So it' going to be what I base my next scrapping project on this week. If you want to come and play with me too I'd love to see your project. It doesn't have to be scrappy, it could be anything crafty! Just leave a link to your blog post/online gallery image in the comments on this post so I can see what you have created. Tell your friends! I'd love to see how these colours inspire the crafty ones out there :)

On an instructional note, Amy has asked how I get the images from kuler. Our main computer at  home is a Mac. I use a screen capture program called Grab. I can take a "photo" of a selection of what is displayed on screen, save it as a TIFF, then open it in a photo editing program to crop and add text.

On a PC the only way I know of is to do a screen cap (Ctrl+Print Screen) then paste (Ctrl+V) into a blank Publisher document. In publisher 2007, you can crop the image using the image tool bar, then right click and select "save as image". This will save just the image as an independent file.

Hope this helps Amy :)

Friday, May 28, 2010

kuler fun

OK so you've heard (or read!) me talk about this site kuler before. Well I have just stumbled across the best feature! If I give kuler a photo of one of my LO's, it will create the colour scheme automatically!!! Then I just need to tweak it to best represent my layout's real life colours.

So here are some I just whipped up (I've just named then after the layout):


From Kuler


From Kuler


From Kuler


From Kuler


From Kuler


From Kuler


From Kuler


From Kuler


From Kuler


Cool huh? OK so I'm a nerd, I admit it :P

The ones called patchwork and olive harvest are actually taken from these photos, rather than Layouts.
From Kuler

From Kuler

I'm thinking this might be a really cool way to find colour inspiration for scrapping. That is get a colour scheme from kuler, based on any photo, then scrap a layout using that scheme.

I'm going to do a new post tomorrow with a scheme I'll use for my next project. Anyone wanna join me?