Color Generation Color Picking PHP and MySQL Senior Project – ID: Computer Science/Visual Arts - 2008 Color Pickr Benjamin Atkins Advisors – Professor Almstead & Professor Orellana Problem: Many people struggle with picking colors for designs and projects. People often have an idea of one color they want to base their theme around, but do not always have a great sense of what colors go well together. Color Generation Although there are currently already several sites on the web that allow users to submit and post their favorite color schemes most of them do not have tools that help you to generate your own. Most of the tools on the web that are geared to help people generate their own color schemes, are hard to find and underdeveloped. My program gives users the option to start by picking their own generation scheme from an assortment of styles (tint, shade, complimentary, my own algorithm, and possibly a few more to be integrated soon), and then customize it by changing some of the individual colors that make up the palette. Color generation formulas take a user selected color and use it to generate the rest of the palette according to the scheme. To the right is an example of a palette generated using the shade method. Below is a picture of the advanced color picker in action which allows users to select almost all colors. Color Picking PHP and MySQL My project uses a full series of MySQL tables in order to allow users to store their favorite color palettes and share them with other users/ give other people feedback. Users will also be able to view the color palettes made by other users and give feedback (comments) as well as vote on them.