As I continue to experiment with the symmetry tool, I also wanted to build a gradient with a very specific color palette. If I’m going to prepare a design with a native American Indian theme, then I want a color palette to match. The good news is there are several on-line sites where you can drop an image and they will give you the primary colors in the image. Some just give you a list of the colors, some give you the RGB color codes along with a small color square. But I found one site that actually gives you a button to export a Photoshop .aco file (color swatch) that you can just load right into Photoshop. How cool is that!
Just choose a file from your desktop, click get palette, and at the bottom, save the .aco file.
Then in Photoshop, you can go to your Preset Manager->Swatches, clear whatever is showing and “Load” this file from your download and name it whatever you want and save it. I actually used three images of Navajo blankets I clipped from the internet to get three different .aco files, loaded all three .aco files to one color swatch in Photoshop and then named the new Swatch “Navajo”. I now have this color swatch to use for any Photoshop design work I might do in the future. Save your new swatches to your “User Preset” area so they don’t get overwritten with upgrades. The window’s path is: C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CC 2019\Presets\Color Swatches. (Hope you Mac users can translate)
Once I had my swatch, I built a new gradient. If you don’t know how to build your own gradients, I’m sure there are YouTube videos to show you how to do that. Here is my gradient layer from the gradient I built using the colors from my “Navajo” swatch.
I then followed the same process as yesterday’s post to stamp different brushes on the mask over the radial gradient layer with the navajo color palette applied.
Here is my final image. I think the brushes I selected look more Asian than native American, so I need to continue to work on that. But it’s the technique that I’m trying to refine for now. I’ll have to do some research on symbols and try again with this color scheme.
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