Systems and methods of customizing a color palette on a digital camera

1. A method of customizing a color palette on a digital camera comprising:

identifying for a user a color from a scene the digital camera is focused on;

capturing the color as a digital image on the digital camera; and

adding the captured color to the color palette as a custom color for the user to apply the captured color from the color palette as part of a photo-editing effect to other digital images on the digital camera.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein identifying the color from the scene is at least by using zoom controls on the digital camera.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein identifying the color from the scene is at least by using a selection tool on the digital camera.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising artificially adjusting characteristics of the color after capturing the color as the digital image.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein artificially adjusting characteristics of the color is by the digital camera and automatically corrects for anomalies in lens and sensor that change appearance of the color shown on the digital camera from a true color seen without the digital camera.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising artificially adjusting characteristics of the color before adding the captured color to the color palette.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the photo-editing effect is a color border using the custom color from the color palette.

8. The method of claim 1 further comprising logically ordering the captured color among other colors already in the color palette.

9. The method of claim 1 further comprising naming the color in the color palette after adding the captured color to the color palette.

10. A digital camera comprising:

image processing logic executing in the digital camera to display a preview image of a scene;

color definition logic operatively associated with the image processing logic to identify a desired color from the scene and then capture the desired color as an image on the digital camera;

a color palette stored in memory on the digital camera to store the desired color for customizing the color palette on the digital camera in color-order among other colors already in the color palette.

11. The digital camera of claim 10 further comprising a user interface engine operatively associated with the color palette to apply the desired color as a colored border to other digital images stored in the memory on the digital camera.

12. A camera system comprising:

means for identifying a color from a scene;

means for capturing the identified color as a digital image;

means for adding the captured color to a color palette on a digital camera for customizing the color palette; and

means for logically ordering the captured color among other colors already in the color palette.

13. The camera system of claim 12 further comprising means for applying the captured color from the color palette to other digital images as a border.

14. The digital camera of claim 10 wherein the color definition logic is configured to take a chrominance average of a color displayed by a selection tool to identify the desired color from the scene, the desired color being the chrominance average.

15. The digital camera of claim 10 wherein the image processing logic is to preview the desired color in real-time as a border around the preview image of the scene so that the desired color changes as a selection tool identifies different colors from the scene.

16. The digital camera of claim 10 wherein the color definition logic is to invert the desired color to display a chromatically opposite color from the desired color, wherein both the desired color and the chromatically opposite color are added to the color palette.

17. The digital camera of claim 16 wherein the color definition logic is to bias to the center of a selection tool to identify the desired color.

18. The digital camera of claim 17 wherein the color definition logic is to average and filter a color previewed over a range of the selection tool.

19. The digital camera of claim 18 , wherein a result from averaging and filtering is a color triplet, the color triplet replicated to fill up a confirmation display for a user.