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Veign:
Whats Its Color - December 25, 2006

Online Application


* First public release
WHAT IT DOES:
Whats Its Color is a fun little online application for getting the primary and complementary dominant colors of an image, how many visually unique colors are in an image, and the top ten visually unique colors in an image.  Why is this useful?  Well, if you were creating a website around an image or using an image as the primary inspiration for any type is design it can be very helpful to know what its primary dominant color is or what are the unique colors that people can see when viewing the image.  The final results will display your image on a background that is best suited for that image.  This application is just fun to play around with.

KEY POINTS:

* Images are resized for display purposes only.  The original image file, and all its color information, is used in the processing
* Font colors used in the results page are adjusted based on the colors that are in the display
* Full support for JPG, GIF and PNG
* Option for discarding the background from being used in calculations.  This lets you process an image on a solid color background without the colored background affecting calculations
* Information on the amount of visually unique colors are displayed.  This includes the top ten
* Additional color information is gathered but currently not displayed.  Open for suggestion on what else to display
Check out the website to see it in action

If you find a problematic image then please contact me so I can look into it. 

Veign:
Right now the online application will only accept JPG files and I have fixed an issue where it would fail on PNG and GIF images without giving any feedback as to why.

I will add PNG and GIF support before the Jan 1st release.

Arjen:
Nice! It seems to work OK for an image I uploaded.

One thing that is not clear to me is the "complementary color": the code of the complementary color is displayed, but I can't see what color it is. Or am I missing something? It would be nice if the complementary color could be displayed in a box, like the dominant color. Or is it the background color of the page?

What I think would be really great too, is if the application could suggest a color palette instead of two colors.

Something else I'd like to see is some tips on how two use these colors when designing a web site.

Hope this helps!

Veign:
The complementary color is the background of the entire page.  That's why the page background color changes for each picture you upload.  The background displays whats considered the background best suited to display that image on.

Color Palette is a great idea and something I may play around with in future releases.  I was thinking of giving 3 or 4 colors thats work off the 'images average color'.

I have been wanting to play around with the pixels of an image and would love more ideas on things it can do.  What I'm doing with the algorithm is evaluating every pixel in the image so I have access to a lot of information.

(I just added support for Gif and Png so it now supports Jpg, Gif and Png)

TPReal:
Hi!
Dunno how it works and normally I don't trust such mechanisms so I'm surprised that it works so nice :) Good job.
TPReal.

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