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Thinking about color for my redesign, I came across this great tip for creating a color palette on YourTotalSite.

Forget about Monochromatic, Tetradic, Triadic, or any -ic schemes. Just find a picture containing colors you like—the subject and quality of the picture is irrelevant—and open the picture in Photoshop. Select Filters > Pixelate > Mosaic. You can adjust the Cell Size to select more or fewer colors.

If you don’t have Photoshop, just open the image in Core Image Fun House. Add a Stylize > Pixellate filter. Adjust the Scale slider to select more or fewer colors. You can drag the Pixellate Center to change the colors.

Here’s an example. The image is a reject, but that doesn’t matter. I’m just after the colors.