Re: color palette

On Wednesday, June 08, 2011 04:14:41 am Aidan Feldman wrote:
> Hi all-
> I am looking to generate a color palette (of a handful of colors) based on
> a photo, similar to what kuler
> <http://kuler.adobe.com/#create/fromanimage> or some
> <http://www.degraeve.com/color-palette> other<http://www.colorhunter.com/>
> services <http://www.pictaculous.com/> do.  I imagine it is fairly
> subjective about how to determine the preferred colors, but any ideas?  I
> need a solution that would work and be reasonably fast for large photos
> with lots of colors.  I've been reading the quantize
> documentation<http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/quantize/#handling>,
> and have been experimenting with the '-posterize' and '-colors' flags -
> still haven't nailed it, though.
> 
> Thanks!
> -Aidan
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Is your target the web or print? Scribus has decent examples of RGB (web) and 
CMYK (print) palettes and a Scribus sla file embeds the colors of the palette 
in use in the text in forms like:
<COLOR NAME="Black" CMYK="#000000ff" Spot="0" Register="0"/>
        
<COLOR NAME="Blue" RGB="#0000ff" Spot="0" Register="0"/>
        
<COLOR NAME="Cool Black" CMYK="#990000ff" Spot="0" Register="0"/>
        
<COLOR NAME="Cyan" CMYK="#ff000000" Spot="0" Register="0"/>
        
<COLOR NAME="Green" RGB="#00ff00" Spot="0" Register="0"/>
        
<COLOR NAME="Magenta" CMYK="#00ff0000" Spot="0" Register="0"/>
        
<COLOR NAME="Red" RGB="#ff0000" Spot="0" Register="0"/>
        
<COLOR NAME="Registration" CMYK="#ffffffff" Spot="0" Register="1"/>
        
<COLOR NAME="Rich Black" CMYK="#996666ff" Spot="0" Register="0"/>
        
<COLOR NAME="Warm Black" CMYK="#00994cff" Spot="0" Register="0"/>
        
<COLOR NAME="White" CMYK="#00000000" Spot="0" Register="0"/>
        
<COLOR NAME="Yellow" CMYK="#0000ff00" Spot="0" Register="0"/>

An RGB palette will be recorded in similar fashon. 

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