I’ve been busy creating a really cute nativity set for Christmas this past week. I can’t wait to share it with all of you. I promise to have those images uploaded really soon into the gallery. While I was creating the colors of the clothes for my wise men, I just couldn’t get my colors right. I was getting pretty frustrated, to say the least. Usually I’m fine in selecting a color that I already have in the pallet, but these images were different. I needed something that had the appearance of being more vintage than the traditional images I’ve made in the past. So I thought hey, I’ll try using my dropper from the color palette and use it on the photographs I was using as inspiration to match the colors perfectly. Wow, what a difference it made!
I was so excited I bounced over to Amanda’s desk and couldn’t wait to tell her how I finally managed to master my colors, and what I just learned. Of course, our friends always make us feel good about ourselves. Even though this was something she already knew how to do, I didn’t. It just goes to show that even though I’ve been using this software for years, I still learned something new. So it got me thinking, what are some exciting little things that you have discovered along the way?
You are so right! It is like buying some great Chocolate and treating yourself when you discover something you didn’t know! Happy coloring 🙂
What’s also fun once you have your color….is to play around with the RGB value then and see how it can be tweaked by changing those values!
I was surprised that after you design your own color palette, you can then save it for future reference!
I love the colors from American crafts products and I use this method of getting the colors form their products pictures to make my projects coordinate.
This is so cool! I’ll have to try it. Normally, I just do most of my designing with black lines with no fill, but I can see how using the colors could give you a good approximation of what the project will look like when it’s actually cut and assembled. So, would it be possible to scan in a chart of color swatches from a favorite paper line and use the eyedropper to match those colors?
Hi Mary! Yes, just like Ana is doing with her American crafts colors, you can do the same thing with any paper line. I happen to really like Bazzil’s paper colors. Kinda neat we can save them hu?
LOL, my favorite paper colors are from Doodlebug. They use the same color palette in every release so it makes matching sooo easy! I’ll have to make a color chart and scan it in now… 😀 Thanks for the awesome tip!
This is something I need to start doing more often. Thank you for a great idea.
Being a Stampin’ Up Demonstrator I really like the fact I can design something and match it to a Stampin’ Up color for design purposes. I usually change the value codes to get the exact color if I do not have it to pick with the eyedropper.
SueR