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Step 4Planning the colors.
You now need to figure out just how many colors you will be working with. You're going to want to balance wanting to have as many colors as possible with the practicality of keeping track of all of those colors and sticking them on a wall somewhere. There's also the cost to keep in mind - you could end up spending a small fortune collecting all of the different color Post-Its.
The official Post-It web site has quite a few colors shown. What you need to do is figure out a reasonable amount of colors to work with. Too few and you lose all detail; too many gets very complicated and expensive. You'll probably want something in between.
For this example, I am going to plan to use 10 colors, though that may change a bit before the final version. The Post-Its come in sets of 5 colors, so I'm planning on getting two sets. Lots and lots of the same two sets.
The next step will detail how to create a palette in mtPaint with the Post-It colors, but keep in mind that you don't need to be exactly accurate with your color choices! If you know you have access to yellow, green, blue, orange, and pink, just wing it when you create your palette and you'll still have a very good idea of how the mosaic will end up looking. Remember, the goal is to spend less time planning so that you have more time to actually create and appreciate your mosaic.
If you don't want to wing it, you can scan your mosaic tiles or paper pieces or whatever and then use a color picker to figure out the hex values. Do a search for "color picker" and you'll find quite a few free ones. I'm not going to get into how to use them here, but I'm assuming that if you've gotten this far a color picker shouldn't be too hard to work out.
The official Post-It web site has quite a few colors shown. What you need to do is figure out a reasonable amount of colors to work with. Too few and you lose all detail; too many gets very complicated and expensive. You'll probably want something in between.
For this example, I am going to plan to use 10 colors, though that may change a bit before the final version. The Post-Its come in sets of 5 colors, so I'm planning on getting two sets. Lots and lots of the same two sets.
The next step will detail how to create a palette in mtPaint with the Post-It colors, but keep in mind that you don't need to be exactly accurate with your color choices! If you know you have access to yellow, green, blue, orange, and pink, just wing it when you create your palette and you'll still have a very good idea of how the mosaic will end up looking. Remember, the goal is to spend less time planning so that you have more time to actually create and appreciate your mosaic.
If you don't want to wing it, you can scan your mosaic tiles or paper pieces or whatever and then use a color picker to figure out the hex values. Do a search for "color picker" and you'll find quite a few free ones. I'm not going to get into how to use them here, but I'm assuming that if you've gotten this far a color picker shouldn't be too hard to work out.
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