ColorSuckr sucks out colors from online images
Designer Paul Burgess created ColorSuckr to extract out the colors from any online photo you feed it. I tried it on this striking image from Wikimedia Commons of the Aurora Borealis by Joshua Strang. Oddly though, it seems to have missed the pink tones? ColorSuckr (via Dangerous Minds)
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And the yellows, actually. But still a cool idea!
Wow, I totally read that headline wrong.
It's "hues", not "tones". Sorry, that is just a pet-peeve of mine.
It seems to chose 12 colours. Maybe the algorithm yanks the twelve most dominant tones.
There's also colr.org. How do you think they compare?
I built something like this once and it suffered from the same deficiencies as this one.
Turns out what a person thinks are the dominant colors in a picture and what colors actually appear the most are two very different things.
The subdued colors this example gives aren't exactly what I would consider to be the dominant ones.
Neat site though. It lets you drag around those little color chips which is handy when matching the colors against the picture or creating little palettes.
Hey all - I'm Paul, the chap who made ColorSuckr. Thanks for featuring it - and yes it takes the 12 most common colours, so if there is just a dash of pink - it probably won't pick that up.
I think at a later stage I'll add the option to extract more colours, but hey - it's fun as is and I hope you all enjoy it.
There's an art to extracting color from a photo to create a usable palette, an art I have never really mastered. This tool would offer a good starting point.
Thanks, but I usually want my color to stay in.
Now THAT is an awesomely useful website!
I could see using this when I find the colors in a photo to be particularly harmonious when planning a quilt or a piece of jewelry. OR in choosing the colors of an online scrapbook page.
Along similar lines, ColorZilla is a neat Firefox plugin that adds an eyedropper tool to your browser, and saves all the colors you sample to a web-sharable palette. If it could just
Hi Paul -
Maybe you could make it so the person can "select" a part of the picture - like one can when using the little crusor-drag-able dotted rectangle thing in Photoshop (no idea the name) and then your program would only extract the dominant colors from that selection. Then people could make a small box around the yellows and pinks if that section contained the colors they were most interested in.
Anyway, I like your program :)
It's "hues", not "tones"
Well, 'colours' would be ideal since it's picking RGB values. David is talking about the colours that are in the picture rather than the section of the spectrum. Of the two I'd favour "tones", seeing as the "pink" tells us what hue he's talking about.
I was going to suggest copying images and pasting them in an image editor to pick the colours you actually want rather than hoping some web page can get roughly what you're after automatically....
But Sinisterscrawl @#13 wins by far; it makes so much more sense than anything else.
ColorZilla installed.
Hm, now that's got my mind ticking. PHP's GD library has an imagecolorat function that gives you the RGB of a pixel on an image, so making a web 2.0 thingy with an eyedropper sampler that returns colors at a particular place, or the average color of a selected area, should be a fairly simple programming job.
I'll get back to you on this.
pixie by nattyware is the same thing but better. Opens an app on your PC and anything your cursor hovers over it tells you the color values. So you would just put your cursor on top of the pink or blue or whatever color you are interested in. Zooms in also for precise per pixel color differences.
http://www.gpeters.com/color/color-schemes.php is better, imho, although it doesn't have a whiz-bang URL.