Hello everyone, I'm Bel of ArtsyBelle Images. I'm excited to guest post here in Project 64: Out of the Box .  How are you all finding the color for this week?  Lucky you if you have already found it. For those who haven't found it yet, just hang on there. 

I know that there are colors that are easy to find while others just shy away from our vision. But don't despair, all you have to do is look around, take a second look, look down, look under, or look up. Yes, look up, that's how I have found my muse for this week's olive green.

 Lately, I notice that photo color palettes have been mushrooming in the web. I've been inspired to create one for quite some time now, but I haven't figured out how to do it. My guest posting here has done me more than good because I am encouraged to play with my photo tool so I can share something to all of you.

Here are the steps to create your own photo color palette:

1. Upload your photo to a Color Palette Generator. I used Pictaculous

2. After you have successfully uploaded the photo, click on Get My Palette.

3. Click Download Adobe Swatch File; then, save it.

4. Open in Photoshop the downloaded file. The colors will be added in the Photoshop swatches.

5. Open too in Photoshop the image you uploaded in step 1.

6. Click the Crop button and clear out the Width and Height values.

7. Be sure that the background color swatch is set to white.

8. Crop the photo and extend the dimension to your preference.

9. Add each swatch color using the Rectangle Tool.

8. Press CTRL + T to freely transform each swatch rectangle.

9. Adjust the dimensions to your preferred size.

There you go; your very own photo color palette. I find the color palette technique interesting and it adds a new twist to a photo.

I hope I inspired you all to find Olive Green in your surroundings. Be sure to link up next week at Project 64: Out of the Box. I'd like to thank Brooke and the other ladies of Project 64 for giving me and the other bloggers a chance to guest post here.

I'll be glad to hear from all of you, you can visit me at ArtsyBelle Images or at Facebook . Keep in touch so I will know that I am not just talking to myself (grin).

Bel

Leaping for Olive Green {Guest Vicki of Side by Side}

Hi everyone, my name is Vicki and I am so excited and honored to be a guest this week at Project 64.  You might know me better from my blog name: Side by Side  aptly named as I have twin girls who are 8½ and growing up side by side.  I first started this blog as an online record of their lives.  I then used it for my digital scrap-booking layouts and projects and now I am primarily using it for my photos and a failed daily photo project this year.   

I have used several cameras over the years and I am currently using a Canon Powershot SX10 which is an advanced point and shoot.  I can do some manual on it.  I almost always shoot that way these days and will probably outgrow it soon. 

I have a goal of putting together a book of all the photos I take for this project.  I want my photos to relate to our family while still being true to the color find and have pleasing artistic aesthetic too.  I try not to just randomly take a photo but search to see if it is something my kids have experienced or something they like.  We are all bird and animal lovers around here.  It seems I find most of my photos outside.  But as it gets warmer I have to get up pretty early to catch the light and avoid the heat.

Here is my find for this week:

I found this fun statue along the main street of our downtown.  I thought the little frogs playing leap frog were the perfect color of Olive Green.

I really enjoy participating each week and am committed to making it until week 64.  I am always amazed and delighted to see what each of you finds for the selected colors. 

Am I the only one who has a box of 64 and is putting the crayons back into the box in the order we photographed them?  I hope not.  lol

Vicki

Reflecting on Olive Green {Guest Karen of Random Reflections}

I am so honored to be a guest blogger here at Project 64.  I blog at Random Reflections. It has been primarily a paper crafting blog until my fascination with photography began once I purchased a DSLR. I’ve been married to my best friend for just about 38 years, and have two adult children—one half way across the country and the other all the way across! It means some great travel, but a pretty quiet house!

I have a habit of starting a photography project and giving up on it about half way through the year. (There have been at least three attempts at Project 365.) But Project 64 has been so much fun. I see things I wouldn’t have looked at twice if I weren’t carrying around my little crayon samples. I’m sure the folks at the grocery store and the mall wonder what I am doing. My husband gets into the search every week as well, so it’s turned out to be a bit like a scavenger hunt. A special thanks to Brooke and everyone else here for a wonderful project! I know it takes a lot of work to maintain a challenge like this.

Last month when I was about to go on a three week trip, I commented on my blog that I wasn’t sure quite how to find the right color when it was announced here. Someone kindly suggested I make a sample of all the colors, so I did, and this week I carried two with me on our walks through the park.

 When Brooke emailed the color of the week to me I thought it would be really easy. I love olive green, but none of the things I own match my olive green sample. My husband and I have been walking through the park each morning, but most spring greens are not this olive green either. But I did see this lovely bud (not sure what kind of bush it is).

 I’m also in the midst of editing our photos from our trip and found two great examples from Arizona. We saw this fabulous parrot at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.

 

And, what else? A cactus, of course.

Karen