Have you seen Sherwin Williams’ iphone/android/blackberry app called Color Snap? What a great tool for creating color combinations! It allows you to snap a picture , then pull colors from that picture to create great color chip combo’s of Sherwin Williams’ paint colors. You can change the hues, saturation and lightness of each color until you get to a palette that pleases you. As a new dyer, I’m always looking to my environment for color inspiration. With this tool, I can flip through my photos and get a great jumping off point for new colorways in my dyeing.
Here’s a favorite picture I took of my middle daughter, Jaydin a few months ago. I took a picture of the original photo using my cell phone and was able to pull the colors I wanted from it into the application, (the purple in her hair pin, the green grass and her pinkish-plum lip color). You can even email the palette! I found that when I sent it to my computer, my monitor displayed the colors quite a bit darker than how they looked on my cellphone, but even so, it was still a super source of inspiration.
Using Color Snap and the picture – I came up with this new colorway “My Jade”:
200 yards Merino Superwash Worsted
Knitting colorwork? Crocheting an afghan? Sewing a quilt? In all the dozens of ways we play with color as crafters, Color Snap is a fun tool to help you along.
Happy Color Play!
Wow, what a cool way to get color ideas. Thanks for posting that!
PS–Love that color way too!
Thanks so much, Jan! It was really fun!
Love that! What are you going to make with that yarn?
Personally, I just like having it sit in my stash and look pretty. Ha! I’m not sure what I’ll end up doing with it…Hmmm! Ideas?
Well, I am thinking it has to be something for Jade since she was the inspiration. I am sure it is as warm there as it is here right now, but it sure would make a cute crocheted ruffle scarf!
It would be adorable! I’m thinking something for Valentine’s Day. I’ll start searching for the perfect pattern.
The yarn is beautiful!
Thank you, Lara!
oh, this is so neat, I would spend too much time repainting the house to complement our photos if I had this app, lol. Really neat, I love how you’ve put it to use too!
Carli, that is beautiful dying, and a really cool way to personalize yarn.
Thank you, Kate! 😉