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DIGITAL SCRAPBOOKINGColor Palette Inspiration
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Hi Everyone :) Rachel here with a fun little post to give you some scrappy inspiration.
One of my favorite ways to scrap is centered around the photo and story. And my favorite way to do this has to be uploading my photo to a color palette generator! I then use the colors it comes up with to scrap my layout. So I am going to challenge everyone to try it for themselves!! If you love color then you’ll love this!
I challenged the shabby girls and they came up with some amazing layouts!! Here are their pages with the photo they started with and the color palette that was generated:
Kylie had a great tip ~ “my photo had heaps of blue and brown/skin tones and the software couldn’t seem to pick up the other colours so I cropped my photo to balance it out“.
If you want to try this out too, here are some sites I’ve found that you might like to use:
Thanks for checking in with us today! Rosy will be here tomorrow with something YUMMY and a freebie too. Don’t miss out on that!! :)
May 14, 2013 @ 11:59:14
Wow- useful info, thanks!
Nov 24, 2011 @ 01:53:37
Thanks for the links to the downloads, I tried them all, with dial up the best one is big huge labs..I managed to do this one…called Tiana@3 months old. using the color pallete recommended.
http://www.theshabbyshoppe.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=32557&title=tiana40-3-months&cat=500
Wow I had to recolour nearly everything, and had a power cut last night and lost my work, but finished it. thanks for the inspiration!
Nov 18, 2011 @ 08:16:12
LOVE LOVE LOVE this post, rachel – THANK YOU :o) sooooo wish i had been able to join in…but this one is definitely on my LIST, lol! awesome job!
Nov 18, 2011 @ 01:00:34
For two hours now I have been trying to acces the log in to Adobe for the Kuler, still can’t tried many times, wont go there! which one is easiest to use??? And want to create a blog and add your blinkie, having trouble finding how to create a blog…tried word press..just got confused couldn’t see how to add blinkie, is it really this difficult or is it just me??HELP!
Nov 18, 2011 @ 08:05:33
Hi JoAnne :o) I’m so sorry, but we won’t be much help with any of this :o( You might try contacting Kuler or some of the other color palette sites as I’m sure they offer some kind of tutorials or support – GOOD LUCK, well worth the effort, as they are a lot of fun and quite useful! and, when it comes to BLOGGING…there are lots of different options like wordpress, typepad, blogspot and more. They all offer tutorials and even videos (i’m pretty sure – you’ll just want to do a google search on them) to help get you started! Hope you have fun with whatever you decide! xoxo — SP
Nov 19, 2011 @ 06:35:27
Thanks SP, I can’t watch videos on dial up they take too long, but happily I am in the process of creating a blog on word press, will add to my profile when finished (may take awhile lol!!!) don’t know much about creating one lol!!!! Thanks for your help everyone, much appreciated!!!! still can’t figure out how to download the blinkies permanently to the front page though..won’t do it..says too many characters. ? any ideas? followed your copy and paste…not working as a widget, what am I doing wrong? Help i want the blinkies on my blog!!!!
Nov 17, 2011 @ 17:03:02
what an awesome inspiration … and our plane leaves in a couple of hours *grmpf* can’t wait to try it out once we return! take care everyone ;-)
Nov 17, 2011 @ 16:47:05
WHat a great post!!! I love color pallets— I find most colors will fit into a beautiufl color pallet- even if you hate the color. ;) I don’t know if you’ve ever heard about Kuler- it’s by Adobe—- http://kuler.adobe.com/ it is a color pallet creator. GREAT source of inspiration! :)
Nov 17, 2011 @ 19:08:37
hahha- didn’t see your link! :) I’m an idiot. :)
Nov 17, 2011 @ 14:06:17
Wow…this is my new favorite trick! I am always struggling to create color palettes that match my photos! Thanks for sharing!!!
Nov 17, 2011 @ 13:13:48
I loved this post; tried on of the links; linked my Flickr account; picked a picture and got a beautiful color swatch! BUT what do I do with the color swatch to use it as I create my page in Photoshop Elements?!?!? I am pretty new to digital scrapping and very limited on my PSE knowlege – are you able to help get me pointed in the right direction?
Nov 17, 2011 @ 18:51:30
What we did was just used colors that matched the swatch from the kits in our supply (A great tip is usually you can go to your folder with your kits and type in a color like “pink” and tons of pink items will show up if pink is in the name.)
Nov 17, 2011 @ 19:18:53
Hey, I don’t remember what it was called, but the website I used, (the first one listed) had a ACR download and it placed my color swatches into a folder and then I was able to open them in Adobe so that I could click them to change/adjust colors of items I already had. :) HTH as well!!
Nov 17, 2011 @ 11:40:32
I just changed jobs and have been SWAMPED, I’m so sorry I couldn’t participate in this challenge Rachel! but I LOVE this idea! I’m soooooo going to use this from now on! I’ve never heard of this before, and your pages all look AMAZING! (as always, of course, LOL!!)
thanks!!
Nov 17, 2011 @ 11:38:07
Hey Ladies, I’m pretty sure you’re using a wordpress powered blog? If you are, try the ReplyME plugin. It e-mails a commenter whenever anyone replies to their comment. It’s a great way to keep the conversation going. I never check back to see if anyone commented on something I said!
Nov 17, 2011 @ 23:59:45
Yeah i just am about to create a blog in wordpress, can you add the shabby shoppe blinkies and pardon my ignorance with tech stuff..but how???
Nov 17, 2011 @ 10:37:36
what a cool idea! can’t wait to use this on a layout! thanks :)
Nov 17, 2011 @ 10:05:46
This was the BEST post Rachel!!! I loved working with the color palette generator! And everyone’s layouts are AMAZING! Loved this idea!!!
Nov 17, 2011 @ 09:57:41
WOW!!! You guys continue to amaze me.
When I started out last december, my pages looked TERRIBLE!! I couldn’t get then to look as good as I wanted. Now, my layouts are getting so good!! This is a great idea.
thanks so much for sharing!
Nov 17, 2011 @ 09:41:43
I LOVED this idea, it’s a great starting point for new layouts! I will try what Kylie suggested to get more colors from a photo to work with! ;)
Nov 17, 2011 @ 08:41:47
Wonderful inspiration, Rachel! I love seeing the LOs beside the color palettes like that!