color palette

[Aidan Feldman]

Hi all-
I am looking to generate a color palette (of a handful of colors) based on a
photo, similar to what kuler <http://kuler.adobe.com/#create/fromanimage> or
some <http://www.degraeve.com/color-palette> other<http://www.colorhunter.com/>
services <http://www.pictaculous.com/> do. I imagine it is fairly
subjective about how to determine the preferred colors, but any ideas? I
need a solution that would work and be reasonably fast for large photos with
lots of colors. I've been reading the quantize
documentation<http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/quantize/#handling>,
and have been experimenting with the '-posterize' and '-colors' flags -
still haven't nailed it, though.

Thanks!
-Aidan

[John Culleton]

Post by Aidan Feldman
Hi all-
I am looking to generate a color palette (of a handful of colors) based on
a photo, similar to what kuler
<http://kuler.adobe.com/#create/fromanimage> or some
<http://www.degraeve.com/color-palette> other<http://www.colorhunter.com/>
services <http://www.pictaculous.com/> do. I imagine it is fairly
subjective about how to determine the preferred colors, but any ideas? I
need a solution that would work and be reasonably fast for large photos
with lots of colors. I've been reading the quantize
documentation<http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/quantize/#handling>,
and have been experimenting with the '-posterize' and '-colors' flags -
still haven't nailed it, though.
Thanks!
-Aidan
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Is your target the web or print? Scribus has decent examples of RGB (web) and
CMYK (print) palettes and a Scribus sla file embeds the colors of the palette
in use in the text in forms like:
<COLOR NAME="Black" CMYK="#000000ff" Spot="0" Register="0"/>

<COLOR NAME="Blue" RGB="#0000ff" Spot="0" Register="0"/>

<COLOR NAME="Cool Black" CMYK="#990000ff" Spot="0" Register="0"/>

<COLOR NAME="Cyan" CMYK="#ff000000" Spot="0" Register="0"/>

<COLOR NAME="Green" RGB="#00ff00" Spot="0" Register="0"/>

<COLOR NAME="Magenta" CMYK="#00ff0000" Spot="0" Register="0"/>

<COLOR NAME="Red" RGB="#ff0000" Spot="0" Register="0"/>

<COLOR NAME="Registration" CMYK="#ffffffff" Spot="0" Register="1"/>

<COLOR NAME="Rich Black" CMYK="#996666ff" Spot="0" Register="0"/>

<COLOR NAME="Warm Black" CMYK="#00994cff" Spot="0" Register="0"/>

<COLOR NAME="White" CMYK="#00000000" Spot="0" Register="0"/>

<COLOR NAME="Yellow" CMYK="#0000ff00" Spot="0" Register="0"/>

An RGB palette will be recorded in similar fashon.