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Single Pixel Color Inspiration From Photos

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If you're looking for a new way to find color inspiration in your photos, try this simple Photoshop technique to pull out colors from a single pixel line and create some unique color artworks... there are so many vastly different results from the same images depending on where you select the single pixel line. Try it out:

Photoshop Instructions

-Open Any Photo You Want
-Use the Single Row Marquee Tool & Select a Single Pixel Row
-Transform (CTRL+T) & Stretch to Full Height
-Then Use Filter > Artistic > Dry Brush

A Gallery of Single Pixel Color Explorations

Birds in Wheat by Mike Ruggirello
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Running ahead of oneself
by orangeacid

International season´s week

Pompidou 2
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Rainbow of Peace
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Morning Glory Pool
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Crayon Fence
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Peacock
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Trees Wonderful World
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by dogseat
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The Wave
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Everyone Lean to the Left!
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Sheila's Surprise
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Power Lines and Storm by Mike Ruggirello
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Lets Get Down to Business
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Because It's Pretty
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Morning Delight
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I'm so ashamed of this new manicure! by thelearnr

22 August, 2008
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tenkerasu
tenkerasu wrote:
22 Aug, 2008
"Power lines and storm" i think is my fave. These are really cool!

liddle_r
liddle_r wrote:
22 Aug, 2008
very nice!

Cowashee
Cowashee wrote:
22 Aug, 2008
Great idea. It could help when you find an awesome photo that you want as art in your house, and you want to decorate the room around it, with the same colors.

Pulp Fict…
22 Aug, 2008
That's really nice!
Too bad I don't have the program.

It's going to put my mind out of a job!

Miaka
Miaka wrote:
22 Aug, 2008
Really good Idea!

This is beautiful!

ldoerer
ldoerer wrote:
22 Aug, 2008
This is sweet!

lightning…
22 Aug, 2008
prettyyyy

Neropatti
Neropatti wrote:
22 Aug, 2008
First this post made me frustrated. You all know when you open a page at CL and you are too impatient to wait while it loads, you see these lines when you scroll down. I thought this page would never load... But hey, it was all a part of the artwork. Maybe I should try to zen down and see the dial up lines as something to appreciate too.

suolaaja
suolaaja wrote:
22 Aug, 2008
Thanks for this very interesting post! I wonder whether this works with Gimp too... I'm going to try:)

klip
klip wrote:
22 Aug, 2008
This is great. Such a satisfying idea. Want to try it myself.

wingedvic…
22 Aug, 2008
Thats is awesome! Love the idea. I can't decide which one is my fave. :)

gibbygirl
gibbygirl wrote:
22 Aug, 2008
oooo, I'll have to try this out. Awesome idea!

Dia
Dia wrote:
22 Aug, 2008
"you see these lines when you scroll down" -- yeah, I thought that same thing too, Neropatti. :D

great post, evad!

lizcrimso…
lizcrimson wrote:
22 Aug, 2008
very nice.

Northstar
Northstar wrote:
23 Aug, 2008
wow that looks like endless fun! such a pretty post to look at :D

deliquesc…
23 Aug, 2008
awww... that last one is just too cute.

nighthawk…
23 Aug, 2008
beautiful, I am kicking myself for not having tried this before. :P

Solaris
Solaris wrote:
24 Aug, 2008
This is so cool! I love this gallery.

dedain
dedain wrote:
25 Aug, 2008
In old-school Amiga and PC demos (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene) from around 1992, there were effects like this, which would traverse an entire image from top to bottom in a few seconds.
See Copper by Surprise!Productions for more of these effects.


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