Saturday, December 27, 2008

Real-time color scheme generator

Here's a very interesting and ingenious tool I found on the Internet: A real-time color scheme generator that does a Yahoo Image search for the term you search and returns the most prominent colors in the images returned.

Here's what they say:
"We take 5 related images from Yahoo Image Search and then show the most prominent 6 colors from each image. Each column of colors is taken from a single image."

Check it out: link

Cheers
Shashank
PS: Why the hell is Google displaying Visual Ads now? It is just going the same way as the other old internet-advertising agencies went - ugly, intrusive and heavy picture ads, and some of them even Flash-based! So much for light, elegant and unobtrusive text ads.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Buddy, its not Google who is switching to visual ads, Its the end users ( google adsense users ) who are choosing to show visual ads rather than text-ads as visual ones fetch more money than regular ads.

Older ad internet companies never gave options for text based ads !!!
There is a difference ...

Shashank Shekhar said...

Check this and this

Perhaps that would show that Google's just using the "simplicity is elegance" when convenient. Its bound to happen sooner or later. It'll be big picture ads in just a Google way.

Cheers
Shashan