Color Love

Brides, I can imagine what most of your desk space (or floor space if you're like me and needs lots of design room) looks like right now...it's covered in stacks of bridal magazines that reach to your knees.  There are tons of shoe boxes full of magazine clippings and paint chips from the Home Depot paint section.  Your StumbleUpon or Delicious bookmarks are overflowing.  Your Google Reader is counting 500+ unread blog posts, most of which are wedding blogs.  You have no lack of design inspiration BUT you are still feeling a bit uninspired by all that you see.

If you feel this way then check out Colour Lovers!  I LOVE LOVE LOVE this site.  Colour Lovers is a great tool for brides to find and create wedding inspiration.  They recently just launched a wedding blog where brides can find current wedding palette trends, inspiration for bridesmaid dresses, flowers, reception decor, and much more.  Best of all, the people that are using Colour Lovers are so incredibly kind.  Your palettes, patterns and colors publish automatically in a public time line so other "lovers" are able to follow and comment on your creations.  I remember when I first joined; within half an hour of creating my first few patterns and palletts I had several "love notes" in my inbox.  "Love notes" are comments from other users about how much they liked your design.

 

Colour Lovers is an easy tool for any skill level.  They offer several options for creating palettes; start from scratch or upload photos from the internet.  Colour Lovers will automatically list the colors used in your uploaded photos, offering categories based on bight, muted, dark, light, and analogous.  If you are feeling super creative you can have the image pixilated so you can specify shades or tones of paticular colors yourself.  Also, there are tons of pre-created patterns that you can "color" or you even have the option to create your own patterns to color and share.

If you run across inspiration while on Colour Lovers you are able to favorite, follow or save your inspiration and come back to it later.  The blogs also offer RSS feed for posts and comments.

Here are several other reasons Colour Lovers totally rocks!!

- HEX, RGB, and HSV formats
- Color recommendations based on your current palette
- Trend reports
- New color tool developments (quite often)
- Tags for colors, palettes and patterns
- Link and image loading to track your inspiration
- Codes to embed palettes, colors, and patterns on your website or blog
- Download options

And here are just a few things that we have created.


Color by COLOURlovers


Color by COLOURlovers


Color by COLOURlovers


Color by COLOURlovers

If you are inspired, please follow E.G. Couture!

Do you have a favorite design website that you are using for your wedding inspiration?  Please let us know, we would love to hear from you!