Mixing the perfect palette can often be a challenging and intimidating endeavor, whether you're painting walls, adding accents or combining patterns. Fortunately there are some great sites out there to make the world of color a little easier to sort through.

Here are some of the top sites to help you on your color journey:

• Design Seeds finds color combo inspiration from stunning imagery and provides you with the HEX codes to match.
• Adobe Kuler is a web hosted community for generating and sharing unique color schemes.
• Chip It by Sherwin Williams lets you create a 'design seed' of your own. You upload your own image, and it gives you the color matches for your project.
• The Perfect Palette creates color combinations based on a theme and provides inspirational images for that theme.
• COLOURlovers is another online community where you can create individual palettes and connect with other color lovers from around the world.

(Image: Design Seeds)