I want a Wizard of Oz for color. I suppose that means that if I click my heels I’ll find out what I already knew. But I don’t have heels.
I have played with color for hours and hours. In fact, I set aside hours to play with colors, and nothing else.
I can’t figure out how to get web-safe colors from the handy tools. The palette generators working from jpgs or websites don’t give good range of tones, either too dark or too light–without allowing to pick gradients.
Think of how much money clothing companies could make if they could generate matching outfits in different palettes.
As it stands, seems the best way for a complete amateur like me is to find a website I like and copy their colors, and not worry about being web-safe right now.
Here’s a link to my favorite colors site right now, as a muted version of what I have. Though I do want red:
http://www.aaexperience.org/
I tried to change the colors, got over ambitious and messed with a column, and everything exploded. Will try again soon.
March 2, 2010 at 5:09 pm |
That is a great website, Rachel! I like the color format as well.
Do you have Photoshop? If you are working in it, just be sure to change any image you are working with to “RGB.” And that, my friend, is the extent of my knowledge.
I feel your pain, but don’t be too hard on yourself. We can’t magically become artists. All we can do is try our best and mentally/emotionally prepare ourselves for when everyone tells us our color schemes are horrific.
March 2, 2010 at 5:31 pm |
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