How to Use Online Color Resources
Whether you are working on an art project, a website or some computer art, you may need some inspiration with a color scheme. This article will point you to some helpful resources.
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The first site of interest is Colour Lovers (see Resources below for a link). This site covers color trends and provides color palettes that you can use in your projects.
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Adobe has a site called Kuler. Kuler is all about color palettes and provides samples or lets you play around with the color tools and create your own palette.
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Color Combos has tools to help you select a color palette. If you see a website with a color scheme you like, Color Combos has a tool to help you figure out what that color scheme is.
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Often designers want to derive a color palette from a photograph that will form an important design element in a project. A tool that will help you determine the colors in a photo is the Color Palette Generator from DeGraeve.
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Palette Man has been helping people choose color schemes on the web since the very early days, and it's still a great place for color inspiration.
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Resources
Comments
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Alisiane
Sep 22, 2008
My sister is into a lot of the same things that you are - all of these web elements that make my head spin...lol I have to say though that in looking over your articles you've made some of these topics understandable and accessible for tech illiterate people like me! :-) -
Alisiane
Sep 22, 2008
My sister is into a lot of the same things that you are - all of these web elements that make my head spin...lol I have to say though that in looking over your articles you've made some of these topics understandable and accessible for tech illiterate people like me! :-)