{"id":6081,"date":"2015-10-30T19:26:22","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T23:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=6081"},"modified":"2019-05-15T13:49:30","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T17:49:30","slug":"seeing-in-palettes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=6081","title":{"rendered":"Seeing in palettes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adobe has long been known for its overly complex software, but Photoshop and Lightroom\u00a0have for years been programs that I can&#8217;t live without.<\/p>\n<p>Today I discovered a new one: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/capture.html\" target=\"_blank\">Adobe Capture<\/a>, an app that makes it really simple to discover a\u00a0palette of colors for\u00a0a scene. (You can also make brushes, vector graphics and &#8220;looks&#8221; for video, but more in another post.)<\/p>\n<p>When in the app, you just aim your phone&#8217;s camera at the scene, and it identifies the five most important colors &#8211; <em>live, and continually updating<\/em> as you move the camera. You can save these as a &#8220;color theme&#8221; and use them in Photoshop as well as other Adobe software.<\/p>\n<p>Since a photo might have some areas that aren&#8217;t related to the color theme, you can override the app&#8217;s choices just by moving the circles that point to the five colors. But it does a great job without any help.<\/p>\n<p>Here are two\u00a0examples:<\/p>\n<p>An embroidered placemat from China<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/placemat-theme.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6086\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/placemat-theme.jpg\" alt=\"placemat theme\" width=\"629\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/placemat-theme.jpg 629w, https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/placemat-theme-300x142.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 629px) 100vw, 629px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/chinese-placemat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-6095\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/chinese-placemat-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"chinese placemat\" width=\"660\" height=\"880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/chinese-placemat-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/chinese-placemat-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A callicarpa shrub aka &#8220;beautyberry&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/beautyberry-theme.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6084\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/beautyberry-theme.jpg\" alt=\"beautyberry theme\" width=\"632\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/beautyberry-theme.jpg 632w, https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/beautyberry-theme-300x137.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 632px) 100vw, 632px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/purple-berries.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-6094\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/purple-berries-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"beautyberries\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/purple-berries-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/purple-berries-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The color theme for autumn leaves along the road is\u00a0the featured image for this post.<\/p>\n<p>This could be a terrific teaching tool. For me, it is a big help in figuring out the palette for paintings.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s penny is a 1990, the year Photoshop 1.0 shipped.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day-116-1990.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-6093\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day-116-1990-1024x610.jpg\" alt=\"Day 116 1990\" width=\"660\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day-116-1990-1024x610.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day-116-1990-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adobe has long been known for its overly complex software, but Photoshop and Lightroom\u00a0have for years been programs that I can&#8217;t live without. Today I discovered a new one: Adobe Capture, an app that makes it really simple to discover a\u00a0palette of colors for\u00a0a scene. (You can also make brushes, vector graphics and &#8220;looks&#8221; for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=6081\" class=\"more-link\">read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Seeing in palettes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[316],"tags":[422,35,82,424,355,426,425,423],"class_list":["post-6081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-improvisation","tag-adobe","tag-art","tag-beauty","tag-capture","tag-color","tag-palette","tag-scenes","tag-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6081"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6097,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6081\/revisions\/6097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}