Color Inspiration – Summer River

I recently received a hand-me-down 1st gen iphone and have been having a ton of fun playing around with it. I downloaded the Evernote app because I keep hearing how great it is at keeping track of the things that you run see everyday and think “I should blog about that”.

So when I was walking the dog the other day I saw these beautiful flowers growing on a rock in the river. I loved the combination of pink and green, so I snapped a picture and added it to Evernote to remind me to write this post!

Here are two color combos to work on from this photo. First, the obvious, which pulls the colors from the plant and the river:

Second, the not-so-obvious, which pulls the colors from the shadows:

So have fun with these, I know I will. I’ll post what I come up with sometime this week. Please share your creations in the comments!

Want to know how I picked these?

Ok…when I have a photo with colors I like, I typically just pick out the obvious ones…in this one it would be the pink of the flowers, the green of the leaves, and the blue of the water.

This time I decided to use colr.org to pick out color combos for me. Colr.org takes a photo, analyzes it, and pulls out a bunch of the colors used.

I scrolled through a bunch of combos until I found ones I liked. Then I matched those colors as closely as I could to Stampin’ Up! colors.

What is great about Colr.org is that it picks out combos that wouldn’t be all that obvious. I think this would be a great tool for scrapbooking, since you’d be able to match the color scheme of the page to the photograph!

Have fun with the challenge, and try out colr.org when you ge the chance.