9 Color Resources For The Graphic And Web Designer
Here are 9 color resources for color-loving artists and designers: Colour Lovers (www.colourlovers.com) is at the top of many color resources list for good reason. It is a free to use repertoire of user-submitted and voted color schemes, be they a single color, a combination, or a palette. It is always great to receive feedback from people who understand and appreciate color the way you do. Adobe’s Kuler (kuler.adobe.com) is Adobe’s version of Colour Lovers. It is a unique, Flash based color trove of palettes submitted by users and voted upon by others. Once you select a color you fancy, you can readily access a Web interface where you can tweak the color values to suit your exact needs. Color Combos (www.colorcombos.com) is a straightforward and simple website dedicated to showcasing the way colors work with each other when used in a combo. The Combo Tester and Combo Maker are wonderful tools especially for mixing and matching Web colors for use in Web design. Owen Winkler’s Red Alt website has a special page called I Like Your Colors (redalt.com/Tools/I+Like+Your+Colors) where you can see what color palettes a certain website uses. It is a simple and brilliant tool for getting real color values from inspiration around the Web. Jeff Minard helps graphic and Web designers a lot with his Color Palette Generator (jrm.cc/color-palette-generator/) that picks out and lists down the colors used from an image you upload. So if you come across a lovely piece of art and you want its colors, just upload it and see for yourself what colors it uses. A simple Color Blender (meyerweb.com/eric/tools/color-blend/) may be all you need to see the wondrous results of mashing two colors up the way you want. This really simple tool is bookmark-worthy and an absolutely handy tool to add to any color lover’s repertoire. The Color Wizard (www.colorsontheweb.com/colorwizard.asp#wizard) can help you out of a color creative block. Just submit the value of a base color you want to start with, and the Wizard would whip out matching colors. It is a wonderful starting point for your color experiments. The Colorzilla Firefox addon (www.colorzilla.com/firefox/) is a wonderful tool for Firefox-wielding graphic artists and Web designers that lets you analyze (and pick) the colors of a webpage you are viewing on Firefox the way you would if it were on Photoshop - or at least close to it. The Color Jack (www.colorjack.com/) is another simple and useful color tool, but what sets it apart is the color sphere (www.colorjack.com/sphere/), a sort of color theory visualizer that lets you see how your theories on color and color combinations would look like. For comments and inquiries about the article visit: http://www.printplace.com/printing/postcard-printing.aspx Disclaimer: Article submitters are solely responsible for the content of their articles. ArtiLib can't be held liable for the contents of the articles. Report Abuse | Browse By Category |
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