Everything you ever wanted to know about colors but were afraid to ask.
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Which color i have to add on neutral grey to get white
I am using gimp with a large text image. Unfortunately there is no way to change the color of the individual words.
So I changed the text color to a neutral grey (#7f7f7f) and added layers above the ...
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Where can I find examples of high contrast combinations for websites?
I like the idea behind http://contrastrebellion.com/, and plan to implement that on my websites.
However, I'm a developer, not designer. I read a lot about the subject -where I must build the ...
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Color wash out problem when I connect my laptop to a projector or LCD monitor
I have a critical problem when i connect my laptop to a projector. Colors that I have used in my website are getting washed out when it's displayed on the projector screen.
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Create consistent greyscale icons from a set of third-party logos?
I have a bunch of third-party client logos in clashing colours. I would like to convert them to elegantly matching grayscale.
What I'm after is a set of identical grayscale images of the kind seen ...
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DIfference between IE and FF. Colors [closed]
I have a problem with my CSS code. Buttons look differently in IE7 and FF
Here are my buttons:
Here is my code:
.list-common-wrapper .button-unfixed .button-unfixed-normal[disabled] ...
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How to design a color picker
...in photoshop, and like the one in photoshop
I know how to make the gradients, but how do I make the colors precise? Like showing all colors in the hue bar or getting a perfect black-to-transparent ...
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Create a color shifting (chromatic aberration) effect using Illustrator
I've got three copies of a vector in pure Cyan Magenta and Yellow colors. I wish to overlap them so that they merge to give a chromatic aberration effect letting a blackish color where they merge.
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Color space term? (RGB / I values)
I found ascii document with 3d data. It was said:
ascii text file of point cloud with RGB / I values
Here you can see part of document:
0.805, 10.301, -1.860, 165, 66, 65, 66
0.806, 10.311, ...
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What effect do gradient fills have on the eye?
There are many baseline rules in web design (and design in general) around how the use of color, shape, line-quality, and font. These rules typically have some grounding in the way the brain perceives ...
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Except China, which country will use red for up, and green for down?
When I design some stock or investment related things, I found that China is different from country like US. In US, red color represent a negative trend, and green represent a positive one. In the ...
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Getting an Accurate Colour Match in RGB
I'm designing a website at the moment.
The client's corporate colour is PANTONE Black 2C (made up of 70% Black and 30% Yellow).
Now, when printed it comes out very dark but with a hint of yellow. ...
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Need help with the Color Combination for the Red
I have come up with a Basic Design for my web app. I want to use the Red color as it helps induce apetite. Well while designing i have managed to get the basic layout and design directions going. But ...
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Theorical Colors ranges - Color Theory
I'm looking for specific ranges of colors here.
I want the range (in Hexa or RGB) for warm colors and cool colors, active and passive colors for exemple:
Warm color from #DD6421 to #FF0000 (random ...
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3answers
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Color mixer that can mix 3 or more colors?
I'm looking for some sort of service, tool or application – even manual techniques – where you can digitally mix/blend 3 or more colors (i.e. not 2 as in most applications out there) and get the ...
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Choosing between Analogous, Complimentary, and Triad Colour Schemes
Background information: I'm working on an Android game for which I need to pick colours. But, I want the answer to this to be general to ANY kind of graphic design.
How do I choose between using a ...
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Changing an all Black Icon to a Colored Icon
I recently bought an icon set of all black icons (http://glyphicons.com/). These icon's look really sharp, however I am interested in changing the color of some of them so something other than black ...
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Graphic design/color compositions for waveform presentation
I have a dashboard of data, on which one of most important elements is a waveform of medical data (a real-time stream, in most cases it would be ECG waveform).
I am looking for a way to present this ...
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Site / App color schemes
I have a Color scheme for an app lets say I'm using the colors from this swatch http://kuler.adobe.com/#themeID/1746892. I am about to create another app and I'd like all of the apps created by my ...
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374 views
Contrast ratio between foreground and background
What is an acceptable contrast ratio between a foreground and its background?
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Do you use colour lasers for proof printing?
I own an EPSON Stylus Photo RX640 printer which prints really good on special paper media, but is rather poor when it comes to normal (>75%) printing on plain papers. Beside that it's also quite ...
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Making a solid color more realistic/natural
I often come across elements of color which look very natural and realistic despite there being only one solid color (not in a pixel-exact way, but rather in the perceived sense).
When I try to ...
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Why is black not a natural color?
I've had at least two art teachers tell me that black does not naturally occur in nature, so using pure black makes your designs look synthetic. I do not understand this. Aren't the following black ...
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How do I match image brightness in Photoshop?
Say I have an image that had it's brightness adjusted. I also have a small portion of the original unmodified image like this:
Is there a way in Photoshop CS5 to have the image's brightness ...
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Photoshop CS5 - how to “normalize” colors in an image to reduce the noise?
New to photoshop so bear with me...
I have a scanned image that, ideally, should be just three colors: red, black, and white. The original was a pen an ink drawing and the act of scanning added all ...
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how to change the workspace color window from RGB to CMYK mode in Illustrator CS5.1?
I'm using Illustrator CS5.1 and started a new document in RGB mode. When I change the color mode to CMYK under File->Document Color Mode->CMYK Color, the Color window in my workspace doesn't change ...
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How do I export a JPG with the same color profile as my Photoshop workspace?
I created a design for a webpage in Photoshop and got all the colors looking perfect.
However, when I export it to a jpeg and view it outside of Photoshop the colors are completely different. If I ...
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What paper should I use to create normal flyer bleeds from a laser printer?
I know it has to be a bit larger, but can I get quality laser print paper to go in a commodity printer? (I have a bizhub C360.)
If so, what size should I get?
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Problem with colors when uploading images
I'm having problems uploading a png file to the web. The problem is that it distorts the color of the image.
The image is a trademark and uses a PANTONE color. I think this could be the problem ...
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How to create this grainy & pixelated effect?
How do you recreate the effect as seen in this picture through Photoshop? I'm talking about the grainy texture...
I tried using noise filter and played with layer blends, but the result is less ...
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Calibrating a screen on a budget?
How would you calibrate a screen on a budget?
Are there simple, affordable devices, methods, or printed kits that help achieve at least some degree of colour correctness on a modern TFT monitor?
...
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Blend mode “Add” in illustrator
Does illustrator have the equivalent of an "Add" blend mode? This would mean that
(R=0, G=128, B=255) + (R=255, G=128, B=0) = white
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Feedback on my Company's Logo? [closed]
I just started my first high school graphic design class a couple months ago, and now I'm using Illustrator to make a logo for my software company.
Info on my company:
I develop applications for ...
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How to create rounded corner using photoshop cs2?
In my application there is the requirement of the image with the rounded shape.
I am new to use Photoshop so i want to know how it is possible to create the rounded shape of any existing image ?
The ...
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Is there a chart for color combinations? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there a good resource or tool to help build a palette around colors I select?
Is there a chart or something which shows you which color goes with with color?
For ...
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CS PDF Export color loss
I'm working with a psd in PS in CMYK mode. After exporting a standard "High Quality Print" PDF, there is noticeable overall desaturation in the exported PDF. Why, if I am working in CMYK, and ...
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Illustrator: color differences between AI and PDF (profile?)
I have an .ai document, this is my working document. ! want to export it to PDF (to be portable but still vector), the problem is the color are all messed up and seem washed out (in spite the fact I ...
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Is it possible to create a modern-looking design with a dark theme?
I was asked a website redesign with two requirements:
Inspired by Google Plus (clean, minimal, a lot of "white" space)
Switchable between a White version and a Black version
Here's my problem: ...
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How to fill with similar colours?
I have this image that have been damaged by JPG, and would very much like to restore it, as if it had never been compressed with JPG.
Can someone help me with this? I assume I need to fill with ...
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What is 5-colour printing?
When my print rep talks about five-colour printing, what does he mean? I know you have cyan, magenta, yellow and black - but what's the fifth?
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Large color set for coloring of many datasets on a plot
I need large set (20 and more) of contrasted and easily visually distinguishable colors for coloring different datasets on a scientific plot (the set of colors should not include write and black and ...
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Colors change in Photoshop when copying a selection from one document into a new document
I'm trying to copy a particular layer out of a Photoshop document into its own new document and export it for use on the web. I'm doing this by right-clicking the layer in the layers palette, ...
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How do I change a single layer to grayscale in Photoshop CS4?
I know you can have the whole image turn grayscale: Image > Mode > Grayscale, but what if I only want to make specific layers grayscale? There's gotta be an easier way than pulling out the layers you ...
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What are the possibilities choosing colors using Phi (the Golden Ratio)?
I recently sat down with a friend, and we hypothesized that Phi (the irrational number) and that it could be used to determine colors using an algorithm of a sort. So, I came back home, and googled ...
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How to create an art asset that can be dynamically colored in software?
Specifically, I have a bunch of photographic crayon images. I would like to remove the color from one to produce a neutral image that I can load into an iPhone app that I'm writing and dynamically ...
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PANTONE and color conversions
I have been given a standard color palette. The colors are defined in terms of
PANTONE #### X
for example
PANTONE 1234 C.
Followed by their CMYK, RGB and HSB values.
Another page defines ...
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What's a good source of color palettes to provide to a color-blind user?
There's a question on this site already about choosing good color palettes when designing for color-blind users. My question is different — it's about working with colors for an audience with normal ...
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Sources for Color Theory or Psychology of Color
Does anyone have a recommendation for a good book/blog/forum that focuses on design principles such as psychology of color, specifically where it relates to picking a color palette for a communication ...
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What is the most uncommon pigment in the phyiscal world?
My intuition on why Hollywood movies use a particular hue of blue for the background screen is because this pigment is not common in the real world. So a computer program would have an easy time ...
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What web graphics formats to use?
Web sites can contain JPEG, GIF, and PNG format graphics. Which ones should be used, and when?
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Color matching tools [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there a good resource or tool to help build a palette around colors I select?
Can anyone recommend a good tool / website for finding color matches for a certain color ...
