AI Color Transfer

Recolouring a textile print by hand means isolating every colour separately, then guessing at the relationships between them. Colour transfer skips that: you hand it a reference image whose palette you want, and it maps the statistical distribution of colour from the reference onto your artwork, in one pass.

The work happens in LAB rather than RGB, and that choice is the whole point. LAB keeps lightness on its own axis, separate from the two colour axes — so the transfer can move hue and chroma while leaving luminance alone. In practice that means the weave, the shading in a floral, and the tonal steps in a gradient all survive. Do the same operation in RGB and you flatten the texture you were trying to keep.

It is the fastest way to test a colourway direction before committing: pull a palette off a trend image, a mood board, or last season's bestseller, and see it on your own repeat in seconds. Who uses it: surface designers exploring colourways, print-on-demand sellers refreshing an existing catalogue, and studios matching an artwork to a client's brand palette.