Found a quick trick for picking accent colors using a photo

I was stuck on a branding project for a bakery in Austin, struggling to pull accent colors from a logo that just felt flat. Then I tried dropping a photo of the actual storefront into Adobe Color and extracting a 5-color palette from it. It gave me a perfect warm tan and olive combo that matched the brick and plants outside. Has anyone else tried using real life photos instead of starting from scratch with color wheels?

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charlie_stone728h ago

Nah, real photos are too limiting for me honestly.

wendy_clark27m ago

Limiting how though? @charlie_stone72 it's just taking a picture, not writing a novel or something.