help color wise for a log cabin
10-13-2011, 01:43 PM
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If you look thru something red at your choices it will filter out most of the color and leave you with more of a grey scale. I have a red glass candle holder that I use but if you want to spend money you could buy a ruby beholder, that's what it is made for.
10-13-2011, 03:53 PM
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i am already thinking i am going to pull the purple and teal out of the medium batch 1 to add to the darks as they are really standing out as dark amongst the rest of the mediums
will have to see if i can find something red to look thru
also the top left blue one in the dark floral batch 1 is actually showing true color in the pic of the complete dark floral batch
will have to see if i can find something red to look thru
also the top left blue one in the dark floral batch 1 is actually showing true color in the pic of the complete dark floral batch
10-13-2011, 04:18 PM
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Love all the small florals. A LC will look great.
In my screen i see a few MEDs that look darker than med.
In the completed medium Pic. the purple and teal that are side by side in the top row.
Also in the dark set there is a beige with a rosey flower. It looks light. Other than that , my eyes say yes, imho. :thumbup:
Can't wait to see this one! Yummy :thumbup:
EDIT AGAIN: on looking over the fabric several times,in the finished light set, my eye keeps going to the very white w/purple & green spray . Seems out of place to me, everything else is creamy white, imho.
One idea if your having trouble with light and dark colors is to lay your set of fabrics (small swatches of each color) on your copier and print it in B&W. You will see which ones look light and dark. I use this method sometimes.
In my screen i see a few MEDs that look darker than med.
In the completed medium Pic. the purple and teal that are side by side in the top row.
Also in the dark set there is a beige with a rosey flower. It looks light. Other than that , my eyes say yes, imho. :thumbup:
Can't wait to see this one! Yummy :thumbup:
EDIT AGAIN: on looking over the fabric several times,in the finished light set, my eye keeps going to the very white w/purple & green spray . Seems out of place to me, everything else is creamy white, imho.
One idea if your having trouble with light and dark colors is to lay your set of fabrics (small swatches of each color) on your copier and print it in B&W. You will see which ones look light and dark. I use this method sometimes.
10-13-2011, 04:26 PM
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Suggest you lay all the darks out in a row, all the mediums in a row, and all the lights in a row. Take a picture of them straight on (IOW don't lay them on a table and attempt to photo them while standing - the further row will not show up. Put them on the floor and stand on a chair if necessary).
It's important to get them all in the same photograph as opposed to photographing the darks separate from the lights, because value is relative to what is next to. A dark may be a light if it is with only darker fabrics. You need to see the whole picture as a whole.
Then take the photograph and convert it to black and white.
That will help you spot instantly the value of each and any that don't belong in the group.
Color viewers also work to bleed out color and reduce it to value only (value meaning light vs dark), however ... you can't use a red viewer to view reds or browns, and you can't use a blue viewer to view blues greens or greys. Since you have all of the above, reducing to black and white is your best option.
It's important to get them all in the same photograph as opposed to photographing the darks separate from the lights, because value is relative to what is next to. A dark may be a light if it is with only darker fabrics. You need to see the whole picture as a whole.
Then take the photograph and convert it to black and white.
That will help you spot instantly the value of each and any that don't belong in the group.
Color viewers also work to bleed out color and reduce it to value only (value meaning light vs dark), however ... you can't use a red viewer to view reds or browns, and you can't use a blue viewer to view blues greens or greys. Since you have all of the above, reducing to black and white is your best option.
10-13-2011, 06:23 PM
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i love your color choices. they are beautiful. and it appears that there is a definite differance between the colors. look forward to seeing what you do with this. i have a log cabin on my list of things to do. but am unsure on the colors right now. but, it will be scrappy. will be following this thread. :D
10-13-2011, 06:29 PM
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By far the easier way to determine if the colors are dark or light or medium is to print them on your printer in black print only, no color. this will render the print in tones of grey. Compare the prints when they are in this grey scale. You can quickly see which ones are too light to be in the dark pile and which ones do not belong in the light pile, etc. This only takes a few minutes and everything becomes very self-evident. This is called reducing the colors to a grey scale and it is what artists do to evaluate their colors.
10-14-2011, 02:43 AM
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Originally Posted by jljack
I have found with log cabins that as long as the lights are all "light" and all the darks are "dark", the patterns and values are not as important. Looks like you are doing scrappy, so the differences will just melt into the whole.
I like your selections!!
I like your selections!!
10-14-2011, 05:46 AM
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Originally Posted by DogHouseMom
Suggest you lay all the darks out in a row, all the mediums in a row, and all the lights in a row. Take a picture of them straight on (IOW don't lay them on a table and attempt to photo them while standing - the further row will not show up. Put them on the floor and stand on a chair if necessary).
It's important to get them all in the same photograph as opposed to photographing the darks separate from the lights, because value is relative to what is next to. A dark may be a light if it is with only darker fabrics. You need to see the whole picture as a whole.
Then take the photograph and convert it to black and white.
That will help you spot instantly the value of each and any that don't belong in the group.
Color viewers also work to bleed out color and reduce it to value only (value meaning light vs dark), however ... you can't use a red viewer to view reds or browns, and you can't use a blue viewer to view blues greens or greys. Since you have all of the above, reducing to black and white is your best option.
It's important to get them all in the same photograph as opposed to photographing the darks separate from the lights, because value is relative to what is next to. A dark may be a light if it is with only darker fabrics. You need to see the whole picture as a whole.
Then take the photograph and convert it to black and white.
That will help you spot instantly the value of each and any that don't belong in the group.
Color viewers also work to bleed out color and reduce it to value only (value meaning light vs dark), however ... you can't use a red viewer to view reds or browns, and you can't use a blue viewer to view blues greens or greys. Since you have all of the above, reducing to black and white is your best option.
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