I'm nosing around for a new project at the moment, (yes, I know, weeks ahead) and having picked one possible extant item as a prospect, I went to work extracting the colours from the image. This was just for fun, and to have a bit of a play.
Of course, working out the colours by eye isn't impossible, but it's maddening when there are lots of colours close together. Plus, being close together, the appearance of a particular hue (did I get that right?) is affected by the hues that surround it.
I discovered an awfully useful link -
http://www.templatelite.com/color-scheme-palette-generators-pickers/
It lists 30 plus scheme generators and other color tools. So far, they've all been free, except one that had a 15 day trial period.
So far, I like the Colors_Pallete_Generator (free) the best. It generated 49 colours. (The most I got from the others I tried was up to 10).
Of course, I'll print out all the schemes, and compare them to the image before actually picking the colours. But I find having automatically generated colour schemes a great way to start off picking out the correct colours on an extant embroidery :-)
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