Interpretation Fun

WOW! Thanks much for doing this! will spend some time and read it carefully :)

♥ Online Tools by Colourlovers:
▙▟ Get Random Colour by CL (via)
▛▜ Official CL tools


♥ Online Tools:
▛▜ Excellent Palette Browser | Codename: "Cuttlefish"
▙▟ Lover Discovery Bookmarklet Must have if you use the above Palette Browser
▙▟ The Color of Words | codename “Cuttlefish”
▙▟ Color Barcode Generator | codename “Cuttlefish” [forum]
▛▜ Transmonster Spawns & multiblends colors from keyword/text. (if the input doesn't work, you can paste the palette ID directly in the URL)
▛▜ Transmonster Ex multiblends 1 palette
▛▜ Transmonster Fusion multiblends 2 palettes. ?? Website is no longer...
▙▟ Color loving ♥ Small Scheme Search & Color Picker
▙▟ Dekaf Lovers: A Visual Mashup
▛▜ Color of the Year 2010 ♥ By COLOURlovers
▛▜ Pictaculous Generates a scheme from a local image file - results from Kuler & ColourLovers
▛▜ TINYexporter export palettes to .SVG or .GPL format (see help)
▛▜ PLGRND Preview palettes as webpage

♥ Widget & Apps
▛▜ Flash Palette Widget flash-based widget to display your palettes on any website.
▛▜ Widgetbox › COLOURlovers
▛▜ COLOURlovers Color Picker - Yahoo! Widgets
▛▜ Mac OSX Dashboard Widget for ColourLovers by Fourleaves
▙▟ CL Colour Picker from Microsoft Live Labs (windows sidebar)
▛▜ ColourPress - a WordPress widget
▛▜ COLOURlovers Desktop Color Finder Adobe Air app
▙▟ Color Browser Import Adobe apps, Kuler, or ColourLovers ASE files

Feeds (xml) Combining RSS tools such as filters... you can generate many widgets or track a specific keyword
+ must for any CL mashup developer:
▛▜ ColourLovers API COLOURLovers API for Flash Tutorial

♥ For @CL - only
▙▟ ADVISED! Quick jump button - by anonymuse
▛▜ GREY COLOURlovers Greasemonkey script by sero*
▙▟ Hide Martha Steward Ad buttons Greasemonkey script


Related ♥ Tools :
▛▜Spoonflower: upload pic to generate pattern - online tool.
By aepstein:
▛▜ ColorSchemer Pruducts : Studio, Galleria, ColorPix (local apps)
▙▟ Online Color Scheme Generator


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FUN @
List of CL games & Challenges

 

TUTORIALS @
▙▟ Official CL FAQ
▙▟ Official CL Help Forum

Tutorial blog posts
▙▟ Profile Identities
▙▟ LOVES, FAVS, Templates
▙▟ Activity Feed & Notifications
▙▟ Threadless Template
▙▟ Download Color Palettes in XAML, WPF and Design


VIDEOS:
▙▟ How to colour a pattern"
▙▟ COPASO : Color Palette Software
▙▟ YouTube - ‪COLOURlovers Pallete Download‬‏ by Darius
▙▟ YouTube - ‪COLOURlovers Pallete Creation Tool‬‏ by Darius
▙▟ YouTube - ‪SVGCuts.com Design Tips - Colourlovers.com‬‏ (old)
▙▟ YouTube - ‪How To Easily Choose and Share Color Schemes‬‏
▙▟ Search COLOURlovers VIDEO Tutorials



Other Tutorials & Links
▙▟About Seamless & Bugs
▙▟ Seamless 2 anything page
▙▟ How to add tags - Why add tags+About tags
▙▟ How to insert & resize an image
▙▟ HOW TO COMBINE PATTERN + PALETTE
▙▟ HOW TO MAKE COLOURED TEXT PALETTES + Pattern rug
▙▟ COPASO : combine palettes, keep widths...
▙▟ PHOTOCOPA
▙▟ Using COPASO to search (for 1 Lover Color Palettes)
▙▟ How to embed Youtube and VIMEO
▙▟ About combining colors - gradient


Elsewhere
▙▟ Tutorial: Using ColourLovers.com with Microsoft Expression

 Wikipedia: Shades of color Good reference with visual support
 Causes of Color
 Nosfeel, an interactive experiment on mood, colours, and music by Nosfell (see how it was made)
 Colour Naming Experiment
 World of colour emotion Research, theory and more. To read: existing theories of colour harmony

objective definition of colour harmony is: “when two or more colours seen in neighbouring areas produce a pleasing effect, they are said to produce a colour harmony.”
Source: World of colour emotion: recent studies of colour emotion

 CrowdFlower’s Blog » Where does “Blue” end and “Red” begin?
 The World Color Survey
 Color Matters Bulletinboard
 Search for 'color' - wikihow
 Welcome to the world of color -apple.com
 color - Google Squared Experimental color chart based on Google search results
 Chromalengua Compilation Floow lover has translated color names in many languages (Google spreadsheet)

Inspiration Resource
 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
 FFFFOUND! image bookmarking
 social bookmarking for pictures on vi.sualize.us image bookmarking

Color Search Engines
For Flickr
retrievr - search by sketch / search by image
Multicolr Search Lab - Idée Inc.
Content Based Visual Image Search : Tiltomo
Color Fields Colr Pickr

Color Tools
▛▜ Opposite Color Tool and more
▛▜ Doughnut Color Picker Very Good Online Color Picker
▙▟ Aviary's Toucan Interesting Color Editor
▙▟ LCD Monitor Test
▙▟ Cllctr: a social bookmark service for images - all the images have a color palette generated
▙▟ How can I Find the Average Color of a Photograph?
▙▟ Color Blender Gradient generator

COLOR PERSONALITY TESTS Thank You Sundancer! (source)
▙▟ ColorQuiz.com - The free five minute personality test!
▙▟ Test color : free of charge personality test.

COLORS & EMOTIONS
As you may know I'm doing some research on colors and emotions.
Here are some nice infographies you may enjoy looking at like me.
I would have a lots to say about them but it would be very long... (I may put my writings here when I'm finished.)
Click on the images to view full size.

Source: Wikipedia: List of emotions - Image



Research by Markus Drews

Colours In Cultures from Information Is Beautiful

Very interesting graphic, for example "anger" is red for most exempt Hindu, where it's black!


and some basics:

Found this to be quit incredible:

Agony is a free (very complete but quit complex) windows application to generate beautiful colourful patterns, fractals, animated patterns, 3D images and more (only for windows)

If it's too complicated there are simpler apps :
djuhn : , savagery: , vexer , I think Agony include all these.
NB: The website provides indispensable tutorials

For Mac, see : Repeating Motif Generator
BTW, talking about editors, here's a special one: Sketch Chair, just to design chairs! (mac/linux to come)

Chris Harrison - Color Flower

Beautiful poster of color names, downloadable in high resolution or vector PDF

Chris Harrison has many other cool visualisations, all worth checking out.

The Color Strata – Color Names, Common And Less So, Compared

From above xkcd's color name survey, Stephen Von Worley created a beautiful visualisation.

Wow! What an awesome resource! Thanks so much ycc2106! <3

From Evad's last blog post: KUBLAI PATTERNS - Simple geometric patterns



A game to practise reading Hex color codes: What the Hex?

How to Read HEX Color Codes? (this can be really useful!)
See this excellent article by evad:
hexadecimal color grey 88

This article is about developing a method of thinking about hex code that will allow you to read and manipulate it without having to pop into photoshop in order to see the color itself.

Related links: How to calculate hexadecimal colors, How to Read Hex Color Codes

Color cycling : Animation effect using colors
From Wikipedia:

Color cycling, also known as palette shifting, is a technique used in computer graphics in which colors are changed in order to give the impression of animation. This technique was mainly used in early computer games, as storing one image and changing its palette required less memory and processor power than storing the animation as several frames.

Joe Huckaby of Effect Games has been playing around with color cycling, leading to some stunning effects : Canvas Cycle: True 8-bit Color Cycling with HTML5

Anyone remember Color cycling from the 90s? This was a technology often used in 8-bit video games of the era, to achieve interesting visual effects by cycling (shifting) the color palette. Back then video cards could only render 256 colors at a time, so a palette of selected colors was used. But the programmer could change this palette at will, and all the onscreen colors would instantly change to match. It was fast, and took virtually no memory.

Source: Ajaxian

Also check out Sortvis: Programming algorithms visualized - just beautiful

The New Black: Blacker than black

FASHIONISTAS take note: this material really does deserve to be labelled the new black - it absorbs virtually all the light that hits it.

This "blacker than black" stuff is an example of a class of substances known as metamaterials, which exhibit optical properties not normally found in nature.
Metamaterials consist of a regular array of two or more tiny components, each smaller than the wavelengths of the light they interact with. It is this array-like internal structure that gives them their unusual properties.

It's a very interesting surface to look at because it's so black
Dr Richard Brown, NPL

It reflects 10 to 20 times less light than current coatings and has a number of applications in astronomy, such as on star trackers, which help spacecraft navigate.

Scientists at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in Teddington, West London, say it could also be used on our planet.

Several artists are said to be keen to use the new material because it is incredibly beautiful, "like black velvet".


Feather reading: BBC News: Blacker is the new black
Source: Stealth Fighters of Tomorrow Could Make Today's Look Like the Goodyear Blimp | Science Not Fiction | Discover Magazine

CL STATISTICS! =)
Colors of the Social World

By looking at the more than 1 Million people who have used our Themeleon tool to design their Twitter Profile in the past 3 months, we were able to paint a picture of the world connecting colors to locations and profile data. Below is a visual guide to what we found: What we noticed first was that a huge majority of people don't wander that far off from Twitter's default light blue colors... and then we went digging deeper.

The Most Powerful Colors in the World a continuation of the above post

Webexhibits has many section on colours, like Pigments through the Ages - detailed pigment histories, recipes
You'll find Interactive pages, symbolism, Visualisations, Timeline, photos, painting... Really nicely made. =)


"This exhibit includes most important pigments used through the early 20th century.

In a microscope, we see that paintings and other painted objects consist simply of pigments suspended in a substance – like chips in a chocolate chip cookie. The "substance" can vary, from oil or egg yolk in paintings, to plaster in frescos, or sophisticated plastics in automobile finishes. Moreover there are many interesting relationships between pigments (the focus of this exhibit) and dyes, and even with the "visual pigments" found in our own eyes."

COLOR THEORY

Symea found this lovely Color theory-tutorial with illustrations and manual hand writing!

"It has so much info- I have had a few color theory classes and this site sums it all up- in a fun way" - Symea

Check it out, in the version you like:
Interactive version
image version
french version

See also: Color In Motion an animated and interactive experience of color communication and color symbolism

Worth checking out CL blog posts:

Silencing - New Visual Illusion by evad
Look at the center dot, see if you notice the changing colors:

Worth checking out CL blog posts:

The Colorful Work of Norman McLarren by evad
Using sound in visual art

Worth checking out CL blog posts:

Beautiful pics: Cocktail Colors Seen Through the Microscope


Other interesting articles:
Psychology:
>> Color of Medication Affects Efficacy

"14% think pink tablets taste sweeter than red tablets; Yellow is perceived as salty; 11% thought white or blue tablets as tasting bitter; 10% said orange tablets were sour".

>> Business Blog / How do Colors Affect Purchases?

Art:
>> Music & Color
Video Color Analysis

"This is a tool that analyzes the contents of any video and generates a piechart. "

Fun:
>> Can you recognize your brand only by its color?

Flickr: The Stereophotography Pool

Many cool Stereophotographies at Flickr's Stereophotography Pool

Cross view this photo to see the 3D.
Step 1 - Cross your eyes until you see 4 images instead of 2.
Step 2 - Then relax your view so the images move together and you see only 3 images.
Step 3 - When you see 3 images stop changing your focus - see the center image is 3D.