Be my fan on Facebookpic2col – extract color schemes from a picture
- September 11, 2009 by Emanuele Feronato
- Filed under Links, Monetize, Php | 8 Comments
Ever wondered the point in calculating color distance at Color difference algorithm and Color difference algorithm – part 2?
The answer is pic2col… just another picture to color scheme converter… as well as this is just another WordPress blog… but it’s MY picture to color scheme converter… this means I am going to make pic2col rock.
In order to do this, I need your hints and tips about new features you would like to see in an utility like this one… any valid help, hint, bug reporting and so on will be credited in the site, so don’t forget to append the link to your blog/service/whatever at the comment.
This is also my first try to create and monetize an independent “Web 2.0 service” so obviously I will keep you up to date with this experiment (so if you want to advertise on it, fees are very cheap at the moment!).
When the site will be completed, with all features you will suggest, I’ll release the complete source code.
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Looks like a pretty cool little program. It could use a feature to let you use photos from your computer.
Cool. Here are my thoughts:
1) The ads turned me off immediately. They’re too noticeable and distract from the service. I’d put them in a four column structure below the black band. Or do a less obtrusive banner ad here.
2) Visually, I’d center this and extend the tolerance bar and “Get Colors!” button to the width of the URL field. It looks cramp and hard to tell what to focus on.
3) The page title should be SEO related. (Know it just launched but wanted to share just in case…)
4) The restrictions should be above the black band, before the button. I used a PNG before I realized I couldn’t.
5) The layout is cool. Is there a way to maximize the screen real estate, maybe generate 2 columns?
6) What would be very useful would be the ability to copy the full set of values and each individual value. I could care less about LAB, so some options to allow me select what I’d need would be handy too.
7) I’d add in some share, dig buttons. While I find them very tacky this is the kind of service people would spread the word about.
Great work!
Nice tool.
The layout is a bit off imo, everything seems to be crammed in the upper left corner and half a page is empty (till you get your pic there), and with an adblock, 3/4 of the page is empty, with the tool itself shoved in the corner.
A notice when you try to do something on not working filetype or too big image (and 500 max is just pathetic) would be nice. And other filetypes if possible.
My suggestions:
- It would be very useful if you could export/download the color palette in a standard format (photoshop/flash)
- it would be nice if you suggest some colors (contrast colors, invert, etc)
Regards
oh, and if you could upload the image would be nice too….
(maybe the system can delete the image after 1 hour or 1 day to save resources)
Nice work…but:
- Needs to support formats other than JPEG (PNG!).
- Needs to support an image bigger than 500px…most images these days are AT LEAST 800x600px.
If you could show us how to do this in flash/flex, that would be great!
I just took another look at the service and saw you listened to the comments…It’s much better now (Ads at bottom help alot)…I reckon don’t push the max image size over 800px, but instead maybe resize bigger images with php if possible, and THEN process them…
I also like the design…simple and not distracting/too bright…
Awesome Tool. But I may be a noob in asking this but I do not see the point in knowing the colour scheme of a photo