Need color? Here is how to get it.
 

Hello,

I have seen so many wonderful tutorials in this forum and I have learned to many great things thanks to the member's generosity that I wanted to give something back.

I'm new to quilting, but I work as graphic designer making mostly covers for books. So I use a website to create a palette of colors for a cover.

The same method can be applied to combining colors for fabrics. Here is how I do it.

First I scan, take a photo or download a picture of the manufacturer's website of the fabric I want to work with.

In this case, let's use this photo.

Then, go to this website
http://www.cssdrive.com/imagepalette/

Upload your picture and the website takes the colors of the picture and gives you back a palette with 3 options, light, medium and dark combinations, plus a complete color palette of your picture.

This way you can find solids or prints that combine with your fabric.

Thanks for reading.

WOW Thanks so much for sharing that - it looks totally awesome. I actually tried one and was surprised with all of the choices. Saved to my Favorites and will definitely pass this on.

Thanks so much for sharing. It's a handy-dandy site! I've saved it to my favorites.

Thanks so much for sharing this site. A very useful tool to have.
peace

Thank you I know for sure I'll be using this website!

Great site, have saved it. Thank you

wow! thanks for sharing.

awesome saved to my favorites also. Thanks so much for sharing

Very interesting~not one orange in either of the three palettes and I would have included orange if I were looking for a combination to go with the fabric. hmmmm.

You just became my hero. I have such trouble with color ~ thank you so very much!