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by onion2k 3346 days ago
What is this actually doing? It's a good idea and the UI is great, but the colors it recommends are ... wrong? I used an image with 6 strong colors in it[1], set it to pick 6 colors, and while I got red, orange and yellow as expected, I didn't get purple or bright blue. Instead I got a grey and two different greens. I guess that might be because those colors wouldn't work in a palette but it's a little odd that it missed them out.

[1] http://www.soapqueen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Color-Pa...

2 comments

A color palette wouldn't have 6 distinct colors like you are expecting. It would have (I'm generalizing here) at most 3 main colors and variants that complement of enhance the main colors.
That is true, just checked. But, I wouldn't say that those colours you get are wrong. Sometimes you don't always get the most dominant ones. You can still get purple by bumping up the "accuracy" level up to 8 (which is not really "accuracy"). However, blue colour seems to appear only when palette size is set to 7. This is why I've introduced "fine tune" and "skip" features, to be able to tweak colours.