Colour selection and harmony?
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- Gerry
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Andy,
Your templates show you have a real flair for harmonizing and blending the gradients, images and colours you use. In particular, the six header images used in the last two templates, ‘Fire’ and ‘Technopia’.
Is this basic colour theory and experience or are there specific techniques that you apply? For example do you select an image and create a colour pallet using it? or is the template created first and then a suitable image selected?
I appreciate this information may be a closely guarded secret but I thought I’d ask just in case you had any tips.
Gerry
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Not sure how Andy works, but there are many good sites and applications that can help you to mix nice colors, in order to get harmony and good contrasts.
www.colorschemer.com/online.html
wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html
(Internet Explorer only)
colormatch.dk/
www.colorwhore.com/
Not sure if it helps, but can't hurt either
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- Andy Miller
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- Actually you have discovered by trick. I find that the best color palettes occur in nature, or at least in the real world. I like to find an image and then sample colors from that image to buld my color palettes. Some of the hard works is done for you that way, but it does still take some skill/experience/luck to pick the right colors from the image so they compliment each other.
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- Gerry
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Thanks for sharing that Andy.
For those wanting a little help with colour selection another tool I've found is: color wheel pro
www.color-wheel-pro.com
There's a nice section on their site to do with colour meaning i.e.
Dark red is associated with vigor, willpower, rage, anger, leadership, courage, longing, malice, and wrath.
Brown suggests stability and denotes masculine qualities.
Gerry
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- Vishal Pahuja
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I have used this
www.colr.org/
You can point it to an image and it will create a pallette for you...
And the best feature is that it is FREEEEEE....
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Oh that's pretty sweet, and you can get the program to make swatches for you
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- Yves
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This is another nice and free online tool for color scheme selection: Color synthAxis
http://www.telecable.es/personales/alberto9/color/index.htm - Yves
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- Blue Maroo
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Wow, what a great resource...especially Andy's trick (could have been a secret).
Now I am beginning to look at tropical fishes!
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- Andy Miller
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Just FYI, this month i'm using non of these technques and just going back to my ol faithful, which is just mousing around the color picker until i find colors I like
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