Questions tagged [color]
Questions about colors, different color space, RGB or CMYK color model, transparent color, using or changing colors.
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How to use a linear workflow in GIMP?
This question is for those who use Blender together with Gimp for post-processing, texturing, etc.
How to work in Gimp 2.10.8 as if you were working in Nuke or Blender Compositor? I'll explain:
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Red Green and a Star [closed]
This is a programmer looking for suggestions. I'm tasked with designing a logo in red and green accent colors, as well as incorporating a star shape in the design.
I've made sure to make it clear that ...
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How to do the project painting in Krita
I would like to know if I can use Krita to make the projection painting of a picture over an UV layout previously exported from blender (2.8). Below you can see how it is the UV layout of the eyebrow ...
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Limited colour gamut of process colour
Process color has a limited color gamut when compared to spot color. Why does process color have a limited range of color?. Explain it in detail.
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Plugin for color blindness?
Is there a plugin for any of the Adobe apps or in general that adjust on-screen colors for custom color blindness deficiencies?
This way the affected designer can design seeing the colors clearly and ...
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Change color of word inside text box in Sketch
I want to change the text color of 1 line of text inside my textbox that has multiple lines of text. When I try to do this through the style dialog, the text color changes of the whole textbox content....
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How to create Gradient Highlight / Shadow using One Spot Metallic Gold Color
My client asks to use one metallic gold color (for example Pantone 871c) in large heading text and other designs. I'd like to make the gold color pop even more with gradient of light and dark. How do ...
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Find color where alpha at value `a` equals a given hue [duplicate]
I want to achieve a certain hue but also have the color that carries that hue contain a certain opacity.
For example if I were after #ff0000 with 50% opacity, the color I would want to identify is ...
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Color differences after recieving a poster from printing
I have designed an A0 poster with Adobe InDesign. It contained a collage of different pictures. Since there was a specific part of the scene I wanted to cover for this version, I put a rectangle using ...
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Determing the best X colors to provide the most coverage in a pallete?
When creating a palette of colors, for use in things such as a painting app, or a box of crayons, or product variants, where you want to make as many different colors available as possible within the ...
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Applying fills to an Illustrator line drawing
I have a line drawing in Illustrator (I am very new to this so apologies for how dim I seem to be) and I want to colour it in but it seems my lines are individuals (I drew them with the pencil tool ...
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Is there a good reason to use a grey background on a presentation? [closed]
The tech company I work with has recently gotten a new branding. Part of this is of course PowerPoint templates. These templates feature a grey-ish background on all slides.
Before stubbornly ...
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How to style links on a resume/CV?
What is the best way to style a link on one's resume/CV? Let's assume this styling doesn't cross over to a printed page and focus solely on the PDF. Should links be underlined and colored blue (like ...
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Why does color disappear completely from my graphic once I export it as .svg
I`m still a beginner on GravitDesigner but created several vector icons already. One strange thing happened already several times: I create a new icon with different shapes and compound paths with ...
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Using "recolor artwork" to only have certain set colors
I often adapt illustrations to fit brand guidelines.
It usually is a tedious task when I have to select each color by hand.
So I've been trying to make sense of the "Recolor Artwork" feature... I ...
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How to single out colors when adjusting the curves?
I am trying to edit the colors in this picture so that
1) the yellow letters in "Thomas Jr" pop out more. Currently they are too bright and disappear into the white background.
2) The white looks ...
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Adding text in picture header without losing readability but not drawing too much attention [duplicate]
I am working on a design with a big picture header.
This picture displays the subject of the website and on it is an accompanying text and a "conversion area" a form that starts a process.
Now I ...
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How to quantify the distance between two colors?
I am working on an app that helps the user create data visualizations. Long story short, I need it to be able to tell when two colors will be in high contrast with one another or not, so that it can ...
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Help with colours [closed]
I would say I've always struggled with colour combinations so I'm hoping someone can help.
How do you all choose your colour combinations?
I tend to look at https://coolors.co and generate a colour ...
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Can't locate a brush stage on layers panel in order to change the color
I am making a design for my website in Photoshop. I want to change the color of the spray brush I painted with many stages ago but I cannot find that stage on the layers panel. How can I change the ...
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Can RGB screen color exist in real physical world?
For example the bright royal blue color; R0 G10 B220, HEX: #000ae1. I know this color cannot be printed nor painted. But can this blue color exist in the real world other than on a digital screen? For ...
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Change color frame selected image Indesign CC 2019
Anyone who knows how to change the color of the frame from a selected image in Indesign?
Seems some files have a yellow frame when I try to select the image inside a box. The yellow frame is to hard ...
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Method or algorithm for choosing a color that "goes well" with other colors [duplicate]
This may be more of a computer science question than a UX question, but it's a question of what pleases the human eye. Take Bootstrap buttons, for example. The version 3 button colors "go well ...
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Question on color theory and automatic color scheme generation
I am majoring in Computer Science and me and my friend are doing our thesis on Color Theory (in particular, automatic color scheme generation).
We have created some models that create palettes from ...
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Best Practice for colours that are different between applications
I am trying to create a colour swatch for a brand based on the branding guideline supplied by the original designer from around 2014.
In their branding guideline they have supplied the following ...
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How do I use random color script to fill up the circular patterns that I have created using Phantasm version?
I have already expanded the appearance, broken the symbol link of the halftone patterns and ungrouped it. I want to fill up with several colors using random color fill script but it's not working.
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How can I achieve an iridescent/metallic/holographic effect in raster editors?
I understand this effect can be achieved in 3D rendering programs, but I also believe that it can be achieved through a raster editor like Photoshop. I work in Affinity Photo on iPad, so I’ll need to ...
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How should I save a drawing for printing? [closed]
I drew a vibrant picture for a friend (3000x3000 300dpi), and I intend to email a file to them that they can print.
But I am not sure what file type to save it as. Google search says TIFF to retain ...
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How to make this white?
I am making a reverse logo but am running some issues. Can anyone help me figure out how to make this zero in this logo white, just like the draft picture.
Thank you.
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How can I quickly know the colors used in a web image?
Supposing that I have the following table,
Is there a fast method (with external tools with the web: for example ColorZilla, browser extension) to recognize the color in RGB (or CMYK) without to ...
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Why does illustrator invert my images when i export as CMYK?
I have this problem on Ai-cc, whenever I export-export as.. eventhough my document is in CMYK and on the final step I export as CMYK my image's result is that the colours are inverted. I have to ...
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Why 0 lightness in LAB is not guaranteed to be black?
Since the L in LAB represents Lightness, why having 0 lightness is not guaranteed to be black?
For example, LAB(0, -128, -128), is a very vibrant blue (#001ec3):
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Why png image loses color? [closed]
I have provided the client a logo (black and white) for Instagram in png.
According to the client when he uploaded png image, the black part of image changes to green.
Can anybody tell me why this ...
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How do I make this color combination more readable?
I am trying to improve an existing web site, and this is what I am starting with:
<body style='
background-color: rgb(50,101,152);
color: red;
text-decoration-color: red;
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Software for quickly and simply re-coloring and resizing a PNG image
Let's say I'm given an image of a flat colored icon, which is a 512x512 PNG black icon. Is there a software to quickly and simply generate e.g. a 36x36 (arbitrary) red (or any color) version of the ...
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Illustrator shapes differ in size based on color
I'm new to Illustrator\PS and I'm self taught so I google a lot, and learned everything that way. I've noticed an issue that I couldn't find any mention of online.
When I make a shape (ex. triangle) ...
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Dark UI Design: Why tint the dark gray colors with a different (primary) color?
I'm currently building a desktop app and decided to go with dark UI. I got really inspired by the tools I use for web development (mainly Atom text editor), which have nice dark UI designs. So I ...
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Chromaticity diagram
The chromaticity diagram is said to describe all colors visible to the human eye. However, I have also read that all visible colors are contained in a 3D color space – very similar to a cone – and ...
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How to achieve this effect in photoshop?
Does somebody know how to achieve this effect in photoshop? color and texture. thanks
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Red color black for mega menu
Red, white and gray are the brand colors for this particular site and I wanted to get some thoughts on using the color red on the mega menu on click. What are the best practices when using spans of ...
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How do these Acrobat fixups differ: 'Convert' vs 'Map' vs 'Map spot and process' colors?
Please see this screenshot from Acrobat DC, and explain like I'm 5.
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How to draw a character in a similar art style to this? [closed]
I'm trying to achieve the quality of this art style. However I'm not a professional artist yet. Still practicing and have a long way to go.
Now I have made a rough sketch, outlined it, colored and ...
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How accurate is pantone conversion in Illustrator and how should I send "Pantone References" asked by the printer?
I've been hired to do a big campaign that requires all sorts of permutations of an Illustrator design.
Most recently, I was asked to make a banner. The printer wants my Illustrator file (no pdf) in ...
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How to generate palettes that display a range of saturation/color in Photoshop
In Photoshop, I took one color (the pixel in the top left corner) and drew the rest of this palette by changing hue/saturation.
I want to recreate this same palette but with other colors, but I do ...
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Match the perceived luminance between green and red images
i have a strange question. I have two images one with only the green RGB channel and the other with only the red channel. These two images are matched (before applying the filters) for luminance, ...
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How to create harmonious color palette?
Look at these harmonious colors, they come from Google Material Design. I'm wondering how did Google designers create them? Expert knows that dark yellow will turn into lemon (with little green in it),...
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Brand color not available in cmyk
I have my own brand but everything I have done so far has been rgb.
I wanted to get started printing some business cards but the color that our brand uses isn't available in cmyk and turns into a very....
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Color scheme trasformations
Given a set of colors, say colors on this webpage, and another palette of an equal number of colors, what would be a good way to map the former to the latter while:
preserving contrast between ...
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What is the pattern and which color is the odd one out?
I saw this a couple of days ago on ueno's brand redesign and have been trying to figure out the pattern between the colors for the past few days. Can anyone offer some insight. Been working on my ...
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Tips on color in UI?
I've been working on a personal project recently, and I'm having trouble implementing the full color scheme. I've uploaded a semi-functional mockup .
My primary and secondary colors are: rgba(245, ...
