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.
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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!

That's amazing! I've been sorting out fabrics by color and sometimes I just stare at one and wonder what color it is! This will be very helpful.

This is a great site! Thanks for sharing. Cannot wait to try this approach!

What a great site. Thank you for sharing with us!

That's an awesome site!

There is orange in the complete colot palette.

Thank you, thank you, thank you. Color selection seems to be a big challenge for me. Life will be much easier now!!!

What a great idea/site! Thank you!

This is fantastic! Bookmarking this site right now!

This is a keeper for sure. Thank you for shareing.

Thanks for a wonderful site! I imagine we'll all be using it and be the better for it!

What a great site. Thanks for sharing it.

Thanks so much for posting this! This would also be great for finding paint to go with a home decorating inspiration piece or fabric.

Wow, this is awesome! I'm thinking of painting my sewing room and wanted to match it to a picture I painted and I now have a lot of options. :thumbup:

Thanks for sharing.....

I will certainly be using this site. Thank you so much for sharing since coordinating colors is a long and arduous task for me. Hoping this will cut the time it takes me to arrive at the color combinations I like.

Thank you for sharing this website. It is bookmarked and will be used for future projects.

Very cool...thanks for sharing!

How wonderful is that? Thank you for taking the time to share and explain how to use... This will surely be a helpful site.

I'm liking this idea already. Thanks for the link and good luck in your ventures of the quilting world.
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This is the most useful tool I've seen in a long time. I usually do well with color, but this will help take it to a whole new level.

That is really cool.......people tell me I have a good sense of color, but now I will check my own choices against this site to see if I really do have an "eye"" for color or are there better choices that I hadn't considered! Thank you.

You may be a newbie, but you really gave an informative resource. Thanks so much! Color "matching" is my hardest thing to do.

Thank you so very, very much. I just got a fabric I love and this will really be a lot of help.

Planning on redoing the living room and this will be a blessing!....

Thanks for posting this. It is a wonderful site.

Thanks for the link.

Wow! Thanks Klarina! For me, the hardest part of making a quilt is picking out the fabric. Choosing colors is hard work for me. This should really help.

WOW WOW WOW - thanks so much!!!

I love working with colors & this website is awesome. Thanks so much.

Awesome! I always have problems with colors.Thanks for sharing!