Princess Peach Pointillism

Step 2 Color Selection

I used some Perl code and ImageMagick to extract the color pallet from the image. For each color in the pallet, I assigned a simplified hexadecimal code:

$cc{"000000"} = "0"; 000000 = 237
$cc{"A85000"} = "1"; A85000 = 6
$cc{"B81018"} = "2"; B81018 = 5
$cc{"D03850"} = "3"; D03850 = 32
$cc{"E86000"} = "4"; E86000 = 47
$cc{"E86050"} = "5"; E86050 = 8
$cc{"E08030"} = "6"; E08030 = 3
$cc{"E88090"} = "7"; E88090 = 29
$cc{"F09058"} = "8"; F09058 = 42
$cc{"F0C830"} = "9"; F0C830 = 9
$cc{"F8A800"} = "A"; F8A800 = 117
$cc{"F8B0D0"} = "B"; F8B0D0 = 40
$cc{"F8B880"} = "C"; F8B880 = 23
$cc{"F8F030"} = "D"; F8F030 = 60
$cc{"F8F8F8"} = "E"; F8F8F8 = 35
$cc{"FFFFFF"} = "F"; FFFFFF = 387

Total = 1080

The program output above shows the color code in hex, its assigned simplified code, and the number of times that particular pixel appears in the image.

I then created a pallet chart and printed it out. When mixing colors, I would first test them against the palette. For me, mixing a large amount of the same color was challenging.

Comments

[Slicerr2]

does any one know where i can just paste my image in and get a layout like in step 4

[skeplin]

Someone suggested this below: use Gimp or some other image manipulation program to save the file in XPM format. The result is almost the same.

[YolksterXD]

This is how i did it with Gimp (and im a total noob too so it took me a while to figure it out):
Paste image into Gimp
Image -> Mode -> Indenxed (dont change the options) -> ok
Windows-> Dockable Dialogues -> Colormap
Windows -> Docable Dialogues-> Histogram

The number of the color on Colormap (ex: color index "x") is equal to "x,x" on the Histogram left and right boxes