Color report for fall 2009 for beaders
October 4, 2009 by Cyndi Lavin
Filed under Designing, Jewelry Business Tips, Other Bead & Jewelry Sites
Margie Deeb has a brand new color report out and ready to rock and roll. “Subtle contrasts” are the catch phrase for the fall/winter palette for 2009. Margie discusses the top Pantone colors that will be found in clothing this fall, based upon Pantone’s survey with Fashion Week insiders.
The main section of Margie’s report takes each of these ten directional colors and provides a report on Delicas and Swarovski beads that represent each. She then provides several suggested palettes for using that color, including color schemes that will delight both the classic and the avant garde among us. I …read more
New color scheme generator
January 30, 2008 by Cyndi Lavin
Filed under Designing, Online Tools & Toys
What’s Up Wednesday
This is an amazing little palette generator! Let’s say that you’ve created a picture in one medium, and would like to turn it into a different medium…like for example, I want to make a beaded piece that uses the palette of the digital image I’ve already created. Which I do, by the way! Run your image through the palette generator, and you’ll have swatches of the colors, complete with the html code. Pantone would be nice too, but this is free
I’m adding this generator to our ever-growing list of color tools, found here!
