Great tool to assist to find the exact colours/values in your photos using online resource

[Jen C r u d e n]

This is a colour site, which breaks down the colours in a photograph, and gives you colour palettes accordingly. Great tool following on from Richard's latest workshops.

Superb online tool to assist with variations in values/colours. Just upload your image and select any area in your photograph and you will be able to see immediately the value/colour of that area, either very minute, larger, or step by step across a sky/sea/tree for example.

Picks up all different shades, values, variations etc

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http://colrd.com/

Note: if above link does not work try this one (different page on their site)

http://colrd.com/create/image-dna/

How to use:

Use magnifying glass to select popular, latest etc
select picture, for example click on the dinghy photo showing on the home page
it opens in a new window
next click on the 'edit' wording on right
another picture will come up and you can see all the colours on the right hand side in the picture
now hover your mouse over the picture and a little box shows each area you are hovering over, so you can see all the values/colours in your image
You can enlarge picture by zooming in using one of the enlarge buttons on top right of image
then can drag picture up and down and around to zoom in on different areas but little colour boxes of areas may disappear
If this happens, then all you need to do is click (dble click?) with mouse it will then enable the little colour swatches again
Click on any area of colour you wish and box will show on image and also appear in the big circles above image so you can then see the colours/values you wish to see.

All you need to do is join, upload your image and can do the same to your image.

Would be really good to hear back on anyone trying this out. 

Hope of assistance and can be used.

Jen

[Marcelle Larochelle]

wow, I would like to use this tool but the link not work, can you give me the site, thank you

[Maureen Murray-Wilcox]

It would be handy for the group work

[Marcelle Larochelle]

it is working, I am soo glad, tank you Maureen, I will use it

[Jen C r u d e n]

Hi to all wishing to use this wonderful tool.    If the main link to their home page has a hiccup http://colrd.com then simply try this one: http://colrd.com/create/image-dna/.

have also updated this into the above posting.

[Silvana M Albano]

I have just seen this Jen! Thank you so much! I will try my slice with it! Hope not to have problems using it....  I wonder if you can upload two pis at the same time and compare them? Or does it have to be one, and then the other one?

[Jen C r u d e n]

Hi Silvana, have been absent from group for a while, just saw your question.  Believe it is one at a time. do let me know how you get on, as wld be so so interesting to hear back from those who gave it a go.  Good luck and enjoy. j

[Silvana M Albano]

Jen, I find it rather complex... I could though, upload my pic and the orignal one and I really could compare the colours. Mine is less luminous and it's an inetersting comparison. It gives you the hue, luminance and saturation for each part of the painting. At least that is what I could find out... I wanted to copy and show you the difference between my painting and the given slice, but I couldn't find the way... ! I compared them by opening two ColRD Image DNA and went from one to the other. I will upload what I consider a finished slice...

If I can, I will do a second version, using this program, to see if it can match everything perfectly! Thanks again for your help! Obviously, critiques are extremely welcome!

[Linda Flanagan]

Hmm - really cool tool but I have clicked on every available button and can't find where to upload my own photo. What am I missing here?

[Jen C r u d e n]

re Colrd Image DNA colouring. 

Hello Linda,  Just sign in to the site, then top is 'create' (choose this)

1.   then click on image DNA

2.   at top of image on right is eyedropper | open | save buttons

3.   Click on open

4.   Your files on machine open up

5.   Select file you wish to have in Colrd. (or drag into Colrd)

6.   Your file will then be there.   

7.   select colours in photo and they appear as round swatches at top

8.   when saved, image will be under profile

Please note.   This must be a file which has not been reduced in pixels. ie full res.

Hope that explains. If need anything else, just ask. Apologise not getting back sooner, but not well and only just checking.

Good luck and hope of use.  Enjoy.

j.

[Jen C r u d e n]

Silvana, huge apology just saw this had been replied to as a 'blank reply'! Just wondering how you got on with this.   I have never needed to save file and download, so not sure on that part.   May need to 'capture' image as a screen dump and use that?    wishes. j

Silvana M Albano said:

Jen, I find it rather complex... I could though, upload my pic and the orignal one and I really could compare the colours. Mine is less luminous and it's an inetersting comparison. It gives you the hue, luminance and saturation for each part of the painting. At least that is what I could find out... I wanted to copy and show you the difference between my painting and the given slice, but I couldn't find the way... ! I compared them by opening two ColRD Image DNA and went from one to the other. I will upload what I consider a finished slice...

If I can, I will do a second version, using this program, to see if it can match everything perfectly! Thanks again for your help! Obviously, critiques are extremely welcome!

[sue gutierrez]

This looks to be a fun tool . Thanks for sharing.

[Idan Solomon]

Jen, Thank you so much for this great tool !!! actually, I have used similar idea using SKETCHBOOK PRO application by AUTODESK, but the link you published is much more comfortable. I wish there was software that could do that without depending on the web. I discovered that using this method helps very much to learn about colors and it really goes with ROBINSON's method for matching colors. In time, I found out that matching the right color comes naturally without using the software. HUGE THANKS AGAIN FOR FINDING THIS PAGE !!! Idan Solomon. Israel.