Learn how to create seasonal color schemes that are easy to apply and add automatic seasonal features.
#Tip 6 – Easy seasonal color themes with indirect color cues
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The AI often has trouble following specific color cues, but there is an easy trick to get seasonal palettes with minimal effort. The method relies on indirect color associations in the training data that you can discover by asking to see images produced by a simple keyword. There are two steps to this method.
In the first step, we don’t care what the subject is, and we don’t specify an art style. We just ask for “[keyword] colors” and look at the color tones you get back. Usually this will be a set of photographs associated with the keyword. Don’t worry if the photos have nothing to do what what you want to create – just look at the color tones. For example, here is the prompt “pumpkin spice colors.”
As expected, we get lots of pumpkins and other seasonal gourds. If the color range is what you want, and the results are consistent between pictures, you now have a color style cue that can be applied to any subject you want. Lets try it on “a robot reading a book. pumpkin spice colors.”
Notice that in addition to the color scheme, we got clever seasonal details worked in without needing to mention them. The details will tend to be derived from whatever you saw in the first step (pumpkins, in this case). All of the images worked in a pumpkin one way or the other.
Let’s try “winter colors” next:
From these samples we notice the color range, and see trees and snow. These stylistic elements will carry over when we try the prompt “a robot reading a book. winter colors.”
