Wedding Color Palettes

One of the earliest steps in the design process is selecting a color palette for your wedding.  It can be very difficult since there is an infinite number of beautiful color combinations to choose from!   One thing that might make this process a little easier is a color palette generator.  A color palette generator will identify the colors used in a photo that you supply.  Some that we love are PHOTOCOPA, DeGraeve, and CSS Drive.

PHOTOCOPA was the fave  at Detailz.  You can see all of the swatches for the photo uploaded, and then pull them into your custom palette.  They also provide a variety of pre-generated palettes from your image.  You can also create a login and save your palettes for future use.

DeGraeve is great for web design and looking for bright colors.  While they don’t offer all of the colors in the image, they do highlight the most prominent AND give you the HEX codes for HTML.  What an easy way to coordinate your Twitter page to your avatar!  :)

 The final one we used was by CSS Drive.  They allow you to either upload a photo, or paste a link to a photo.  They also give you the option of a custom palette like PHOTOCOPA, but it’s not as easy to use.  It only saves your prior colors clicked, while PHOTOCOPA allows you to rearrange your swatches.

 

We hope you find this post helpful on your future creative ventures!

xx,

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Detailz Tech Reviews: Appy Couple – Custom Wedding Website & iPhone/Android App

As a recent bride and also part of the Detailz team, I had a difficult time finding the perfect host to our wedding website.  I wanted a website that incorporated all of the the aspects that I wanted in a page, while embodying the vibe of my wedding and being different from every other site I’ve seen.  I didn’t want a generic site from the Knot, or some cheesy Flash-based template, but I was knot (pun intended) interested in spending the time or money for a custom solution.  I wanted to have the ability for guests to RSVP, and also to include sneak peeks of the Detailz of our wedding for our guests.  I also wanted to share our photos with guests after the event, and allow our guests to share their own pictures.

Enter Appy Couple, the newest, hippest way to keep your guests and bridal party in the loop. Apply Couple is a suite of products that includes a wedding website, emails to weddings guests, iPhone, iPad, and Android app in one. The app that your guests download enables them to not just access, but interact with your wedding website.  Unfortunately, Appy Couple was not available when the Mr. and I wed in 2011, but I went ahead and created a faux wedding to test drive the app.   Detailz loved the site’s Kate Spade-esque logo as a we launched it from our iPhones!

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