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Choosing Colors

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I am always looking for inspiration to get my creative juices flowing. One of my favorite ways to get charged up is to look at photos for color ideas. My daughter loves to take micro photos of flowers and plants, which yield some lovely color variations. I like to take photos of scenery or people, which can give me some interesting color combinations. Here is one photo we took the other day during a walk. There are a few different color combinations I can make based on just this photo. The first way might be to use variations of the flowers' coloring. Another ways is to use colors from the different objects in the photo to get a wider variety of colors. Another way is to select a couple of shades from a few objects. Here are three different color combinations I made using the three ways mentioned. Color Combination #1 This color combination uses colors just from the main flower.  The first two colors are from the petals and the other three are taken from the cente...