Easily sample colors from images and turn them into color ramps with Michel Anders' new free add-on.
I am happy to announce I have created a small add-on that can be useful to quickly sample rich color palettes for a color ramp node.
Got this idea from Substance Designer which offers an option to sample a whole palette of colors from a reference image for their gradient node. Now you can do the same for Blender's color ramp node. With a color ramp node selected, just go to the Node menu and select Color Ramp Picker. An eye dropper will appear and you can sample from anywhere within your Blender window by clicking and dragging. Unfortunately it is not possible to sample outside the Blender window so you should have your reference image loaded in Blendeś uv-image editor.
3 Comments
Very nice little add-on.
This could be really useful.
Thank you.
Kind regards, Aclariel.
There is another one here :
https://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?401806-Addon-v1-2-ColorRamp-Dropper-easily-select-color-values-for-ColorRamp-nodes
Very much like one experimental option in my GradientTools addon (mostly for importing gradients from SVG, CSS and GGR files). You can grab it here (the title of the thread can be a bit misleading):
https://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?388380-Import-SVG-linearGradient-definition-to-ColorRamp-node
Sorry, for the shameless advertising ;)