February 9, 2012
If you’re trying to redesign your house, redo your wardrobe, or create some form of art, you’ll more than likely be involved with choosing colors. However, there already lies the problem. With so many colors to choose from, which ones do you select? What if you want to have a certain color no matter what, but don’t know which other colors would fit? For this, Agave for Linux comes to the rescue.
September 23, 2011
Eyedroppers and color pickers can work outside a mammoth graphic tool like Photoshop and CorelDraw. Most of these tools are small and portable. But today, we will diverge from desktop color picking tools and look at five browser based ones. After all, a graphic artist can take his inspiration from anywhere…and if it’s anywhere online, a few very useful Firefox add-ons could come real handy.
August 24, 2010
In a way, it’s good that we can just enjoy colors without understanding them. They are actually quite complex. Okay, we use it match clothes or our home décor. But then, contrasting colors can set off one another — two contrasting colors can clash. Then there are the complementary colors that can flatter each other. [...]
February 9, 2010
Graphic designers queue up on the right. The rest, please stand on the left. The title of this post might make it seem like one exclusively for the web designer or the graphic artist. After all what does a normal guy who doesn’t hold the palette have to do with tools that are called color [...]
July 6, 2009
Good evening. I’m back again to bring you some of the latest and greatest in web tech for the web-savvy Photoshopper. Up until now, every time I have to design something, anything, I automatically reach for my trusty old Color Index book. If not for the convenient vinyl colors in this little book, I probably [...]
May 2, 2009
As a designer I know the importance of keeping up with the latest and greatest apps that enable you to design graphics and develop websites more efficiently. These apps for your Mac will allow you to increase your productivity and save ample amounts of time with minimal effort. No matter the job scape or your [...]
October 14, 2008
Image search is evolving quickly. Today you don’t even need to use words to search images. Now you can use colors!. That’s right you can search images by color. Let’s search the web for an autumn-like palette (yellow, red, brown) using the following 3 services. Let’s see how the search results are like. 1. PicItUp [...]
August 23, 2008
I am no webmaster by any stretch of the imagination, yet there are times in the course of my work where I need to be able to match the color of something on my screen to a project that I am working on. There are several ways that I know of to do that. The [...]
