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how do i create complementing colors for the background and foreground color for my webpage? any tips? what is the best color for white and black background? what is the best format for images?
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Here are a few sites full of all kinds of web development info:
WebDeveloper.com
Web Design Tuts
Color Theory
Optimization Tips
Color Theory Test Site (neat little site where you drag a drop colors and see how they interact)
About.com list of sites on web color
This should get you started. Also try out your own search using a search engine as there are tons of sites out there on web development.
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Classic Mac users, try this link:
http://www.hotdoor.com/harmony/index.html
It's basically a simple colour wheel, where the user can choose the amount of hue pointers that are in preset point directions. Simply rotate the pointers and they will point to various opposing or complimentary colours on the hue wheel.
Even the demo has some use. PC users see the attached zip archive of some of the small amount of colour combinations presented, although you can't beat the live interactive interface of Harmony - this may help you see some of the suggested colour combos.
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thanks for the tif files. btw, why is it there are no white or black color in those tif files? also, thanks for this but why is it i read in a website that cool color complements warm color like violet and blue complements each other?Comment
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A hue wheel does not consider brightness or saturation - only hue.
From memory you can select from 2 , 3, 4, 5 or 6 sets of colours with the above software.
The colour choice is semi auto, depending on how many spokes are on the wheel, where the spokes point and how many limited colours are in the palette.
As for your questions on colour theory, try these links:
http://www.webreference.com/dlab/9704/wheel.html
http://www.adobe.com/support/techgui...eory/main.html
http://www.colormatters.com/entercolormatters.html
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"Web safe" or "browser safe" color schemes used to be a very important consideration when designing a site but does anyone still bother? I think most users have probably upgraded from 256 color video by now...so why do we still need to design for that?03-08-2003, 08:57 PM
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Hey everyone,
Just wanted to share these color theory articles I've had bookmarked. The author of the blog is mainly showing examples of game design however the concepts/theories can be applied to photo quite easily.
They've helped me a bit as they've been a pretty good...04-30-2015, 10:53 PM -
recently changed to google chrome and have learned it does not support colour profiles, which gets me to this question,
how do you guys make sure your photos on website are as close to your intention as possible...
I am guessing saving as sRGB is a no no.
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I've been going over a lot of color theory lately, and have been trying to experiment with making my photographs have a color harmony in its visual palette. What i'd ideally like is to keep the color intensity/brightness the same (or "exposure") but I'd like to clamp the saturation.
...08-30-2010, 04:35 AM
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