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commfire

Post subject: App to help design bike colors?

Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2013 9:12 pm

Joined: Thu Oct 22, 2009 11:14 pm
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I am looking for a photo cropping app or software that would help me change colors for bar/saddle, logos, wheel decals and such. Any suggestions on a good inexpensive photo editing software?

I know, first world problems....

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djconnel

Post subject: Re: App to help design bike colors?

Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2013 9:39 pm

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I use Gimp. Select the region (perhaps with the scissors tool, which is able to track high-contrast boundaries -- set featuring to 1-3 pixels for best look), then Colors->Hue-Saturation to change the color and saturation level. There's more sophisticated techniques, but this is fairly quick.

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afie

Post subject: Re: App to help design bike colors?

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 1:24 am

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If you are looking to use different colours that work well together, online tools such as http://colorschemedesigner.com/ can give some good combos.

Adobe has one that can take colours from an uploaded photo and give you the best complementary colours.

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phatphuk

Post subject: Re: App to help design bike colors?

Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2013 7:51 pm

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commfire wrote:

check this out.

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