Kokabella.com: a little talk, a lot of visual by photographic design artist, Kokabella.
One of my favorite little tools for years now, Color Palette Generator allows you to enter the url of a photo on the web which in turn gives you the color palette matching the photograph.
Try it out by going to the Color Palette Generator and entering the url of a photograph that you want to extract the colors from. It’s fun and great for coming up with great color schemes.
Have you tried to new Sherwin-Williams ColorSnap for iPhone yet? It’s my favorite app at the moment. Useful to photographers, graphic designers and all-around color pros. Just snap a photo with your iPhone and it extracts the colors for you. Brilliant!
I cannot stop playing around with this! Yesterday I had as much fun letting Sophia pick the little punch outs to glue on the paper as I am today with Photoshop!
It started out as a bunch of circle punched scrap paper pieces (see yesterday’s post) and turned into some fabulous works of art:
I am thinking of offering the high resolution versions (commercial use ok) for a donation towards something for Sophia. She loves the zoo and I know she’d love going to the San Antonio Zoo.
Today, my 18-month old and I decided to create something to matte & frame for her wall. We used a circle punch to make a lot of colorful circles from scrap paper, glued them on a piece of heavy card stock, scanned it and using Photoshop, created a few variations to start our design process with.
We will finish our project tomorrow and send it to the printer, then matte and frame it for her room. Check back tomorrow night for the final artwork!
I take trips around the web frequently and today, this site caught my attention. It’s a definite must for anyone with a taste for the finer things!
Bid4Assets is an online auction marketplace for high value assets like jewelry, real estate, collectibles, cars and more. Items come from seizures from the U.S. Marshals Service, state and county governments and private sellers.
There are many stock photography websites to find a great shot for your website or print media. Here’s the ones I like most. As always, be sure to check on the photographer’s terms for use. Have fun!
Image Search Engines:
Creative Commons Search offers search by use for commercial purposes or images that can be modified, adapted or built upon.
EveryStockPhoto searches across multiple sources of almost 5 million images.
Flickr: Creative Commons Search also offers a search of content uploaded by Flickr members based on the type of Creative Commons licensing you are looking for.
Websites:
AboutPixel requires you to register to get free photographs. It is not an English website.
ADigitalDreamer has a small but well organized collection.
Cromavista offers a small collection, mostly scenic. It is not an English website. No attribution required as stated at bottom of page.
Deviantart has stock images of all kinds by many members. Terms of use vary. Excellent website.
DHD Multimedia Gallery offers wide range of photos. Navigation is not the greatest. Requests a link back if using their stock.
Flickr Creative Commons shows images with attribution requirements.
FontPlay Free Photos offers 10,000+ free, high resolution photos without restriction.
Fotolia offers stock starting at $0.14. Although not free, it’s a great source for high rez images.
Freemediagoo offers free photos, no credit required.
FreePhotos offers free use of their 3000+ photographs. Link back required.
FreePhotos.se has a small but nice collection of free use photographs by non-professionals. Link back requested but not required.
FreeRangeStock is an awesome website full of high resolution photographs for personal or commercial use.
FromOldBooks has over 2800 scanned images, engravings and pictures from old books.
ImageAfter is a terrific website for free high resolution photographs although most are raw and unprofessionally shot. Great for modifying and enhancing though.
Imagebase offers some great stock photography without any restrictions other than the obvious; no porn use or resale of original images.
IronOrchid has to be mentioned here as there are some original and unique photographs for web use with attribution. Print quality available for a fee.
Mayang has 3400+ photographs of textures and architecture that can be used freely. Link back requested but not required.
Microshots has a cool collection of 600+ closeup shots available for personal and commercial use.
National Digital Library allows use of their photographs freely. Requests credit to be given to photographer.
Photo Laboratory has free stock that they claim exists nowhere else. Definitely worth a look. I did not see anything written in their legal jargon stating that use of their photos requires attribution.
This isn’t one of those “feel good, get happy” projects so if you’re looking for some inspiration, I’m afraid you won’t find it here this morning.
As many of you know, I always carry at least one camera around with me. I’m always looking for a beautiful flower bud, bird or butterfly to photograph and turn into a piece of art or illustration. Even in the beautiful area where I live, I kept seeing litter so I decided to photograph some of it.
I tried making it look less ugly by water coloring it, etc., but trash really is ugly no matter how you spin it. Shame on those who freely drop their pop cans, cigarette butts, wrappers, etc. Hopefully Mr & Ms Litterbug see this and realize how awful and unnecessary it is to dump on Mommy Nature. My good deed for the day is done if that’s the case.
Ohhhh I’m all about vintage today! I’ll have a few high resolution copies that you can download and use in your artwork. For now, have a look at them because I’m thinking that they’re pretty awesome! (I’m not proud!).
