Tutorial: Generate a colour palette off an image.

[Corile]

Not really a tutorial, more like a protip.

Imagine you found a really cool photo on the internets and you wanted to generate a colour palette off it to make cool forum posts like me.

1. Get gimp cause photoshop is for scrubs.
2. Get an image.
3. Open the image in gimp.
4. Go to Colours -> Posterise.
5. Tweak the slider until you find a value that you like.
6. Go to Image -> Mode -> Indexed, then in the "Maximum number of colours" put in the number you posterised the image to.
7. Go to Windows -> Dockable dialogues -> Colourmap.

You'll be presented with all the colours in a form of a table. When you click on one of them you'll see its HTML notation. You can use these colours right away or put them into another palette generator tool (like Adobe Color). The palette generated from the image above posterised to 6 colours is:

331c4e
373a37
7a323b
674984
de8088
89bbc5

You can of course posterise to more or fewer colours to get different results.

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[Shiki]

Thanks for that, seems to be better than picking colours from the pic manually like I usually do.

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[evanz]

".....1. Get gimp cause photoshop is for scrubs....."

lets not start a possible war here of gimp v photoshop, both have their good features

[Shaggy]

Nice tip, but I use this...

http://www.colorpicker.com/

It works, well.

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[Gulryz]

1. Get gimp cause photoshop is for scrubs.

Really? I started with GIMP and then moved to Photoshop why u always hit those who use Photoshop some personal Hate