Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Find a color

Pretty cool, and must have a use: find photos of a certain color.
If you click on more colors, it combines them.
Using the same colour more than once increases its prominence in your search results.
(Click a picture to see it in Flickr.)

... Hey, I just thought of a use: to find ideas for paintings! I often start with colors I want to use. So in the example below, I felt like making a painting using brown, red, and beige. So I can find a composition to be inspired by. (Obviously not plagiarizing a photo.)


Oooh, another use: a designer wants a picture to match the colors in a web page or magazine page. He can find one here, and then offer to buy use of it.

5 comments:

  1. Nice! To me it's even enough to see collages like that, I could spend hours looking at those.

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  2. I remember using Googles image search and seeing the option for color. I clicked on it expecting to be asked for a color, then I read a little further on and saw it meant as opposed to B&W.

    Glad to see someone has done it.

    The examples seem to be dominant in the color, If I wanted a pillar box, of phone kiosk I'd put in red, but not consider the color for the background, and get disappointing results.

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  3. Finally I hit a certain "pink" and was given a phone box, a pillar box, London bus and 1930's GPO van.

    http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/#colors=667932,cbcbcb,909090,363636,db5758;

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  4. Funny, the paleness of the color you found there.

    Probably easier to use keywords for specific items like phone booths.

    http://tr.im/bjjl

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  5. This is marvelous - thanks E!
    Gail xo

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