Great! Pleased to meet you!
Does the brief make sense? Do you have any questions? Are there any parts of it that you don’t think you’ll be able to fulfil? Did the example I uploaded show what I’m looking for? - I’m assuming everyone saw that:
a. Despite having around 5000+ circles and a really nice gradient across the whole piece, there are only around 8-10 different colours/tones in the whole thing and each dowel is a solid colour. It’s essential to me that my designs/palettes don’t require me to mix more than 8-10 paint shades or it becomes too hard to track which dowels need which colour.
b. The “noise” created by the white, grey and other coloured dowels really adds depth to the gradient - that’s also essential to me. I posted on here because I really have no idea how to get Photoshop to suggest those “different but similar” tones that work so well, and have no idea how to fill each of the 5000+ circles with a solid colour, given that the circles are not in a repeating x,y grid.
I’m new here so am a little unsure what happens next - from other posts I’ve seen it looks like folks can just “have a go” and present a watermarked version of their work for review/comment/revision. Is that what you intend to do?
I can provide a Dropbox link in the morning to the PNG from Sketchup that you could use as the source file for the mask (or whatever you’d be doing to create the output). Helpful?
I should have mentioned that I prefer pastels most, followed by bright, bold colours (but not just CMYK or RGB primaries) and I like greyscales too: I don’t particularly like drab colours, camo, mustards, beiges, maroons, navy, etc. If it’s helpful, you may want to upload photos of quick google images pictures (of any object at all) just to get my quick opinion on a palette before spending time on it if you wish.
Thanks!
