Getting the right colors out of an image the pragmatic way
One big and difficult question designing visuals is which colors to use. Using images makes this question easier to answer. In this post I show three pragmatic ways to do this including using Adobe's free tool kuler. Source: Flickr Most visual decks need a aesthetics improvement, and getting the slide's colors right when it contains a photograph. This is not an easy task, so how to approach this pragmatically? Right off the hat, one fast solution is to randomly select the colors from the photograph using the color picker (also called the eyedropper ) tool. The eyedropper tool is found in every slideware, e.g. PowerPoint, and also in gimp and Photoshop. Another solution is to pixelize the image. In gimp open the image and in the image menu go to filters → blur → pixelise. The bigger the pixel block, the less colors you get to choose from, but the more homogeneous they get. As an example I'll use an image of a red wolf from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service digit...