Chad Coleman

Design Color Scheme From A Photograph

As a designer I find inspiration for color schemes from all over. From architecture, nature, to paintings and photographs. I’ve driven by houses with a great color scheme and thought to myself “That would make a great color scheme for a website!”.

Using Photoshop’s Filter > Pixelate > Mosaic, we can grab a photograph and find a great scheme from it! Hover the below photos to see the scheme they produce at 65 cell size. Photographs with a wide array of colors will work best.

Irony In Design

Advertising may be the only business in the world where the clients with the most money can make demands until they get the agency’s worst product, while the small client with little to spend must meekly accept the agency’s best.
Thomas Murray

Portfolio Template Design

Lookin for a quick and dirty template for a personal portfolio site? John at ever-real posted a zip file containing a .PSD and several fonts used in the design. If you know how to cut XHTML, you might be interested in this freebie.