I have just discovered (thank you Dylan!) a brilliant new app for iPhone, the myPantone color app. This app is sheer friggin’ blow your mind genius. (I love love love color schematics, so even if it weren’t genius, I would probably still buy it and blissfully extol its mediocrity, I am that hopelessly besotted.) In brief, it gives you 7 or 8 pantone color books to flip through, as well as the ability to take a snapshot and then pull the pantone hues out of the image and create numerous custom color palettes.
Now, you may ask – aside from geeking out with my iPhone, what else would I use this somewhat pricey ($9.99) app for? Ah ha! Here’s what I am going to do! Photograph all my favorite clothes and create custom color palettes based on outfit combinations! Then, anytime I am out shopping, and I am wondering if I should buy something, and if so, what would I wear it with, I can photograph the item in question, pull out some swatches, and see if they match any of my in-heavy-rotation palettes. I will never again have one of those moments where I’m like, this sweater would look awesome with these pants, but I wish I had noticed at the store that they were two completely non-coordinateable* shades of ochre! Also, once you create a color palette, you can email it, and the email includes the ASE files to send your swatches to Photoshop!
* Non-coordinateable may not be a real word. Spell check says it isn’t, but spell-check also says the word geeking should not be used as a verb, and that I am spelling ochre wrong, which I don’t think I am. Or perhaps I am, and I am just stubborn.
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Emilily 12:33 am on December 3, 2009 Permalink
Well, there’s the picture alright, so it did work. Although now I’ve just established that I can’t leave replies via safari on my phone because it is asking me to sign in.
Oh well, I go to bed now.
Carmen 10:42 am on December 3, 2009 Permalink
Awesome! geez my nose kind of looks big in that picture but I think its just the angle. I think I have a normally proportioned nose. This is great though, I’ll do a post later from my phone to try it out.
Emilily 12:47 pm on December 3, 2009 Permalink
You have a totally normally proportioned nose. All the plastic surgeons reading our blog should take note, that’s what a nose ought to look like. Evil villains take note, too – that eyebrow arch says “Take over the world? who, me?”