Quick Tip: Using Photoshop to Produce a Color Palette
After our discussion on Pixelated Color Palettes in Photoshop yesterday, Nina showed me another method of picking colors for a web site from a photo.
Open Photoshop
Click File > Open and navigate to the file that you want to use as a starting point for a web site color palette. Double click the file to open it
Click File > Save for Web
In the Save for Web dialog box set the Optimized File Format to Gif
Set the Color Reduction Algorithm to Restrictive (Web)
Set the Colors to 8
In the color table you will have a nice palette of colors to work with. Hover your mouse pointer over any of the color chips to display the Hex value of the color
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December 10th, 2005 at 12:33 pm
Q. Is there a reason to use Restrictive (Web) colors these days?
Cordially, David.
December 12th, 2005 at 2:22 pm
Did you take a look at the process? While Restrictive (Web) colors is not really a necessity anymore (although this can sometimes be up for debate), the selection creates a nice color palette.
December 13th, 2005 at 2:08 pm
Yes, those are terrific sites, but you can’t get colors from a photo. Colr.org will allow you to pull colors from a photo, you can find it here http://colr.org/
August 28th, 2007 at 1:13 am
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