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'Garden colour inspiration' - a new feature (back in 2008)

drc726

By drc726

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I was looking through old blogs and thought this new introduction to the site back in 2008 by Ajay might be of interest/help some members when planning makeovers and or new borders?
To go to it type Garden colour inspiration in the search box.

Ajay wrote in January 2008:
’we have just put up a new feature called Garden Colour Inpiration

With the growing set of gardening photos on GoY we thought searching through them by colour would be a fantastic tool. We hope you agree? Maybe you are planning a new border and wanted a few ideas? or Maybe you just fancied something orange in you garden? :) Once you have found something, why not see what else that member is growing in their garden?

So how does this work? Every day our little spider scans through the photos uploaded the previous day and determines the colours in each photo and makes them available to the search. Visitors to Garden Colour Inpiration can then pick a colour from the slider and see up to an initial 12 matching results.
Clicking on any of the results will bring up a slideshow allowing you to browse through all the pictures matching that colour’,

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Thanks for the reminder, I will certainly find this useful
:-)

12 Aug, 2011

 

Thanks from me aswell.

12 Aug, 2011

 

Thanks for this - good timing!

12 Aug, 2011

 

Thanks from me too, i forget to go to some features on here..come to think of it i forget quite a bit these days..must take a look :o)

12 Aug, 2011

 

That's handy - thanks.

12 Aug, 2011

 

I didn't know about this Denise.and it sounds good.I will be taking a look..thank you..

12 Aug, 2011

 

I didn't know either thanks Denise...

12 Aug, 2011

 

Just had a look..it's a great idea...any more little gems we don't know about ? :o)

12 Aug, 2011

 

Thanks everyone

12 Aug, 2011

 

just had a play :-)

12 Aug, 2011

 

So have I Kf!!!

12 Aug, 2011

 

I am trying to find a specific green to paint my kitchen and its quite useful for that too lol.

12 Aug, 2011

 

Lol,Denise..a good idea ....

13 Aug, 2011

 

:o))

13 Aug, 2011

 

:))

13 Aug, 2011

 

Thanks for this info. Denise, like others, I had never known about this! It's very, very interesting . . . . .

13 Aug, 2011

 

I had forgotten all about it ST so thought it worth mentioning.

13 Aug, 2011

 

I didn`t know about this one, its very good, thanks Drc.

13 Aug, 2011

 

thats good Lincslass

14 Aug, 2011

 

This is excellent. There is so much on here I don't know about. I'll spend the winter exploring the site! Thank you.

14 Aug, 2011

 

:))

14 Aug, 2011

 

Me too, many thanks.

21 Aug, 2011

 

Your welcome Tetrarch

21 Aug, 2011

 

I notice that all the pictures I looked at were from 2008. Does that mean its not operational for current pictures?

22 Aug, 2011

 

Its computer generated Tetrarach, each colour has lots of shades and each shade has 12 possible matches and most of these were done in 2008/9 some in 2010. Once the selection of the shade is made the photo do not change - as shades do not change. The idea like all colour wheels is, if you want a specific shade of pink it gives you 12 possible matches and if you go slightly darker or lighter it will give you 12 more possibles.

22 Aug, 2011

 

Ahhh the technicalities! I really should've guessed..thanks for that Drc, I will fiddle with it some more..found some lovely pics on there so will dip in and out...it really is fun!

22 Aug, 2011

 

:))

23 Aug, 2011

 

Ooooh I didn't know about this Denise, going to look now, thanks:-)

31 Aug, 2011

 

:))

31 Aug, 2011

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