Capturing Color Palettes with Adobe Capture

Today, I thought I’d share a fun tool I use on my iphone and iPad to capture color palettes and put them into Procreate. It is the free app called Adobe Capture. It does a lot of different things (including turning images into vectors!), but I use it mostly to play with palettes.

From the app you just point the camera at something and it picks five prominent colors from the scene. You can adjust them, change one or all, and just mess around. It’s fun!

Through the app this gets saved in an Adobe Creative Cloud library, which is available then across your Adobe programs, if you use them.

But if you don't, no worries!  Just take a screenshot of the palette that Capture creates and save in Photos.  Then you have it as a .jpg to use wherever you like.

I import the photo into Procreate and easily use the color picker to nab those colors for a palette.

Yes, one can simply take the picture and pull colors from that. But for me, as I learn about color (because I am not a natural at it), the app helps me because it narrows the many many colors in a scene to just five. Thought I’d share, and heck, it’s free to play with.

Playing with Procreate and Turkeys

Around the American Thanksgiving holiday I took a few days off of work on my graphic memoir to play with my favorite iPad drawing app, Procreate.

I am interested in mid-century modern illustration styles, so I thought I'd play with some of those design ideas and draw a few turkeys.

The elements I played with included:

• rough texture,
• duller colors,
• large simple shapes,
• line and color work offset (not perfectly matched),
• some halftone shading, also offset,
• exaggeration.

 Messy sketches, sure, and even really very pretty, but I learned a ton doing them!   I practiced manipulating layers and opacity.  I tried new brushes I'd purchased but never used.  I chose colors from a mid-century palette that are not colors I would ever normally work with.

It was a great few hours of playing and learning.

Maybe I'll do the same for Christmas!

"The Daily Office" in Pictures: The Final Post

This post is part of a project in which I painted one watercolor for each page of "The Daily Office" section in the Book of Common Prayer.  You can find the complete explanation of the project here.

I hope you've enjoyed the past 112 days of watercolor meditations on words or phrases from this text.

Next week, I'll be resuming my "usual" blog activity, of exploring the variety of art I'm practicing.

"The Daily Office" in Pictures: Number 111 of 111

This post is part of a project in which I painted one watercolor for each page of "The Daily Office" section in the Book of Common Prayer.  You can find the complete explanation of the project here.

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"The Daily Office" in Pictures: Number 110 of 111

This post is part of a project in which I painted one watercolor for each page of "The Daily Office" section in the Book of Common Prayer.  You can find the complete explanation of the project here.

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"The Daily Office" in Pictures: Number 109 of 111

This post is part of a project in which I painted one watercolor for each page of "The Daily Office" section in the Book of Common Prayer.  You can find the complete explanation of the project here.

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"The Daily Office" in Pictures: Number 108 of 111

This post is part of a project in which I painted one watercolor for each page of "The Daily Office" section in the Book of Common Prayer.  You can find the complete explanation of the project here.

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"The Daily Office" in Pictures: Number 107 of 111

This post is part of a project in which I painted one watercolor for each page of "The Daily Office" section in the Book of Common Prayer.  You can find the complete explanation of the project here.

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"The Daily Office" in Pictures: Number 106 of 111

This post is part of a project in which I painted one watercolor for each page of "The Daily Office" section in the Book of Common Prayer.  You can find the complete explanation of the project here.

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"The Daily Office" in Pictures: Number 105 of 111

This post is part of a project in which I painted one watercolor for each page of "The Daily Office" section in the Book of Common Prayer.  You can find the complete explanation of the project here.

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"The Daily Office" in Pictures: Number 104 of 111

This post is part of a project in which I painted one watercolor for each page of "The Daily Office" section in the Book of Common Prayer.  You can find the complete explanation of the project here.

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"The Daily Office" in Pictures: Number 103 of 111

This post is part of a project in which I painted one watercolor for each page of "The Daily Office" section in the Book of Common Prayer.  You can find the complete explanation of the project here.

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"The Daily Office" in Pictures: Number 102 of 111

This post is part of a project in which I painted one watercolor for each page of "The Daily Office" section in the Book of Common Prayer.  You can find the complete explanation of the project here.

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"The Daily Office" in Pictures: Number 101 of 111

This post is part of a project in which I painted one watercolor for each page of "The Daily Office" section in the Book of Common Prayer.  You can find the complete explanation of the project here.

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"The Daily Office" in Pictures: Number 100 of 111

This post is part of a project in which I painted one watercolor for each page of "The Daily Office" section in the Book of Common Prayer.  You can find the complete explanation of the project here.

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"The Daily Office" in Pictures: Number 99 of 111

This post is part of a project in which I painted one watercolor for each page of "The Daily Office" section in the Book of Common Prayer.  You can find the complete explanation of the project here.

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"The Daily Office" in Pictures: Number 98 of 111

This post is part of a project in which I painted one watercolor for each page of "The Daily Office" section in the Book of Common Prayer.  You can find the complete explanation of the project here.

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"The Daily Office" in Pictures: Number 97 of 111

This post is part of a project in which I painted one watercolor for each page of "The Daily Office" section in the Book of Common Prayer.  You can find the complete explanation of the project here.

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"The Daily Office" in Pictures: Number 96 of 111

This post is part of a project in which I painted one watercolor for each page of "The Daily Office" section in the Book of Common Prayer.  You can find the complete explanation of the project here.

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"The Daily Office" in Pictures: Number 95 of 111

This post is part of a project in which I painted one watercolor for each page of "The Daily Office" section in the Book of Common Prayer.  You can find the complete explanation of the project here.

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