Color theory is a massive subject in its own right! But often, the colors in your site can be based on your main image. The image you have decided to use that will be part of the ‘look/feel’ for your design.

One thing I always remember, and you can look at any colorful garden to check this out, is that nature never clashes. Nature puts some of the most outrageous colors together without a problem despite our human rules.

Usually I will use a color picker to check out colors in an image, but here is an online tool that will do the job quickly for you.

First you have to upload an image. I just used my avatar image in this instance (and, I admit, out of curiosity!).

The original image:

Original Image

The resulting color scheme:

Color Scheme

and another!

Original Image

The color scheme:

Color Scheme 2

You can try out the free online Pictaculous Color Palette Generator for yourself here – it’s fun too and there is quite a bit more to explore when you have generated your own color scheme!