Color schemer

tspco

Time for me to bug you plugin gurus again, I am color scheme challenged, I can't tell what color goes with what color. I use a freeware program that will give me 6 colors,from a sample that supposedly go together. More options would be nice. I cannot use this in a sketchup model because of the shading and textures, so I take my sample from the materials pallette swatch.

Anybody have any ideas how to make this work?

Jim

I attempted one using colr.org - an OK but not great color site. Could probably be done better using kuler.adobe.com

Plugin: Colr Explorer

Colr Explorer is a SketchUp plug-in for exploring colors through searches and tags. It's simple, intuitive windows allows you to search for ...

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Dave R

Have you tried this?

tspco

On Kuler right now, looks promising.

tspco

OK I made a color scheme on Kuler, downloaded the ase file, (I don't have a program to open an ase file, not buying PhotoShop). There are some scripts that reportedly work with gimp, but there is a lot of things to make it work, for conversion from ase to gpl. Download python 2.5, run this download this, etc,etc. There was one app that looked good, complete and ready to run. Opened it and imported an ase file, it crashed, twice, deleted it. Back to square 1, do I used my color picker (jcpicker)on kuler. Picked all 5 colors, wrote down the rgb for all five, opened SU painted my model, great. But there has to be a better way to do this.

Dave R

Well, how often do you need to do this? Here's an option that really doesn't take long.

I made a screen grab of the color set on Kuler
Color Swatch.png

Import it into SU as an image. Explode it. Draw quick rectangles over the color patches. size isn't critical. Right click on each rectangle and choose Make Unique Texture. The colors will be created as material patches in the In Model Materials library.
Color Swatch Example.png

Color Swatch.skp

tspco

Never thought of that approach Dave, I will have a go at it, sometimes all we need is another angle to consider, thanks

Box

Once you have brought your colour chart into SU you can always just use the tool in material edit called "Match Colour on Screen" or simply use the Alt key with the Paint Bucket to sample the colours you want.