Adobe Kuler

Every now and then FaceBook will turn up something amazingly useful or meaningful. I spend far more of my time on Ravelry and Goodreads, so I'm always surprised when I find myself on FB for any amount of time, except to post family pictures or share a new blog post. Tonight I discovered Adobe Kuler, which can create color themes based on your uploaded pictures according to a chosen "color rule": analogous, monochromatic, triad, complementary, compound, shades, or custom. You can upload an image and play, but you can't save it without creating a free account, which is quick and easy. Just use your normal "My Adobe ID" if you already have one. I experimented with the analogous setting using this picture of seagulls from our trip to the beach:

Kuler did it's thing automatically (instead of the user selecting the color samples from the image by hand) and gave me this link to the resulting color swatches (similar to those in my earlier post that I created using PicMonkey): https://kuler.adobe.com/seagulls01-color-theme-3824653/

It doesn't give you an easy way to save the color scheme as swatches, but I just took a screenshot, pasted it into IrfanView 4.25 (my fav go-to simple image editor), and cropped out the swatches:

(Analogous color scheme generated automatically by Adobe Kuler)

The program shows where the colors were pulled from the image. That beautiful blue came from the tail of the gull in flight.

I uploaded the same image of the ocean and gulls that I played with in the earlier post:

Adobe Kuler provided these analogous color swatches (https://kuler.adobe.com/beach_color_palatte-color-theme-3824680/):

(Analogous color scheme generated automatically by Adobe Kuler)

This time I cropped the screenshot just using Mac's Finder toolbar options (I moved to another laptop).

I know this is still the tip of the color iceberg, but I'm intrigued with all of these techie tools! Does anyone else use anything like this? And how do you use them?