Everything you ever wanted to know about colors but were afraid to ask.
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iOS header font
Ok, so I am trying to do my first theme, a Tumblr page theme for bookshelf pages. My vision was basing it on iOS iBooks. There are some minor details which I don't know. I really want to know what ...
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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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How does a monitor display the CMYK color? Is it actually showing the true CMYK color?
Just few moments ago I asked a question regarding RGB to CMYK conversion.
say, RGB (86,92,214) the color in my image. Then monitor uses same values for displaying (lightning LEDs, LCDs or CRTs). ...
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Adjust hue / saturation such that colour X becomes colour Y
I need to convert some stock icon imagery to a pre-existing colour scheme. The method for conversion is to simply adjust the image hue to the right level.
However all I have to go on is existing ...
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Never use white?
There was a famous blog post by Ian Taylor called "Never use black", in which he explained that one should never use pure, complete, 0-0-0 black, and should instead put a little bit of color or light ...
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How can I separate colors by layer in Illustrator?
I did a three-color Live Trace, and output the colors to swatches. Now I'd like to assign each of these three (spot) colors to their own layer. I'm sure this is super easy, and I'm just over-looking ...
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Color Picker in photoshop is wrong
NOTE: THERE ARE NO LAYER STYLES!
I'm having problems with my color picker in photoshop CS5
Number 1: Me selecting the black [ish] bar. Color picker returns gray
Number 2: Me selecting the white ...
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When I export an image from Illustrator, why is it a slightly different color in the exported image?
I have a web design layout in AI that I'm trying to slice up into HTML/CSS. I'm having trouble keeping the colors the same in the exported files as they are in Illustrator.
When I open it up in ...
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Why are all my colors dull in Illustrator CS6?
I just installed Creative Suite 6 on my computer. I was working on some artwork for a client in Illustrator and having a hard time getting the right colors. I noticed they were all very dull. So I did ...
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Color Swatches: loading multiple ASE files in illustrator CS5.5
Is there a way to import multiple ASE files from the Swatches palette in Illustrator CS5.5 ?
Currently I can only import one ASE file at a time by doing:
Swatches->Open Swatch Library->Other ...
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How to color correct in Photoshop to match a color card
I'm trying to get accurate colors for a digital-photographed painting. The photo includes a color card ("Kodak Gray Scale", with cyan "C", yellow "Y", magenta "M", and a 19-step gray scale going from ...
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In Inkscape, how can I save colors for use in multiple elements?
For example, I'd like to have a color called "text-color" or one called "content-box-color". How can I save a color like this and then assign it to an element?
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How to create irregular shapes with round corners
I found a logo of a company named Ibbt. As you can see, there is a separation between elements (the shapes in the left). Can anybody tell how to create such effect in Illustration?
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What would be equivalent blue colour for this red/orange one?
I'm struggling to find a matching blue colour for this red one I've got: #cf3a1b
By 'matching' I mean similar feel, in terms of brightness, contrast, lighting etc...
I'm new to graphic design so I ...
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How do I get the default color palette back in Photoshop?
So for some reason, totally unknown to me, I now have a very annoying color picker setup in Photoshop. At the moment, whenever I change the colour in the right-hand color selector (which updates the ...
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Matching colors for dark brown
I am building a website and need some advice regarding colors.
My website is mostly white and dark brown.
The logo and menu have to go in that brown color, but I am not sure which seconday color ...
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Rules for adding colors to a black and white palette in web
I am working on a fashion website for my own portfolio, that allows users to have their own account where they save fashion related items. A sort of Pinterest for fashion items.
Now, I know that the ...
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Under the U.S.'s Copyright Law, is it an act of copyright infringement if we changed the color of another artist's image to black and white?
Under the U.S.'s Copyright Law, would it be an act of copyright infringement if we were to change the color of another artist's image to black and white?
The answer to this question is provided below ...
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how to find the right hue to go with a particular colour
I do understand that colour wheel, however, Im struggling with finding colours that match a particular shade of gray. For my web application, Im interested in using this pattern of gray!
gray pattern
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Dark Theme vs Light Theme in Web Applications
I am designing a theme for our web application & I really like the new Adobe Photoshop layout (which is dark, though not black), so I took the cue & created my own dark layout. However, our ...
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How to find relation between colors to recreate scheme?
I'm messing around with some premade site designs and I really like the color balance of one, however the scheme is not the color I'm looking for. There are about 30 color variations in it.
Is there ...
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Graphic designs and tools to consider while making PDF reports [closed]
I would like to know want tools are used for making PDF reports like whitepapers, case-studies , brochures, pamphlets which are rich in pictures, colors, charts, graphs.
In what ways can we make ...
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How can I easily swap colors / swap channels in Photoshop?
Back before I could afford a Mac I used a PC (when Windows XP ruled the earth). At that time I couldn't afford Photoshop either. So I had a WinXP box with Irfanview installed - and I thought that was ...
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Measure between two hex values
I was curious to know if anyone has used or seen code to measure colors between two hex values. Any language will do but I did see the JavaScript source to determine what HEX value is in RGB.
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How to change colour of all elements of a group, at once, in Illustrator
I have a group of objects of the same colour, consisting of coumpound paths, regular paths and groups of these. How to change the colour of all objects at once? When I tried to use colour picker or ...
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How to design a modern/slightly futuristic-looking application
I was hoping to get some advice from some more experienced UI developers. I have been presented with a unique challenge by my customer, and I feel like I am failing.
Specifically, they want a UI that ...
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What kind of black should I use when designing for CMYK print?
my question is what kind of black should I use when printing.
At the moment I use this black (split into CMYK) :
C:0%
M:0%
Y:0%
K:100%
It looks fine in InDesign or Illustrator but if I save a PDF ...
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Can adjusting color (or grayscale) properties of an image affect its visibility in daylight?
I'm trying to find ways to make images more visible under daylight (i.e., when daylight reflects off the image screen/print). For my project, I want to display digital images on an electronic display ...
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Are there any color palette choosing tools that make it easy to incorporate black/gray/white?
I always have a difficult time choosing color schemes and I think I often end up overloading my designs with color because there's "just something missing." Today I realized that part of the problem ...
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Differences in color conversion (RGB to CMYK) / How to choose Corporate Color
I figured out that there are possibly more than one methods to convert RGB to CMYK.
Using Adobe Illustrator CS6 (Mac) the color conversion is completely different as the conversion via Wolfram Alpha. ...
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How do I change the default color library for stroke/fill in Illustrator?
When I click in the Appearance menu to color a stroke or a fill, it pops up a library of swatches. I can't figure out how to get that to show a different swatch library. I have a saved library, I can ...
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How to overwrite brush “texture” with single color in Illustrator CS6?
I'm creating symbols using custom brush packs that I downloaded. Most of these brushes have many different colors in them ("textures"), not just a single one. My question is how to dismiss these ...
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Given a color scheme, how do I apply to website design?
Just so there is something concrete to discuss, say I have this color scheme:
http://www.lavishbootstrap.com/?image_url=http://design-seeds.com/palettes/12/SpringTones505.jpg
There are many articles ...
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Visibility of elements over different shades of blue
I'm debating which colors to use for my website. We've been trying to find the right colors for the logo and graphics of the site, and struggling with trying to pick between the light and dark blue.
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Perception and color theory
I'm making a custom keyboard and want it to look nice, and like Apple's, without actually copying pixels. I did a bunch of work on creating keys and the background, only to be amazed once again by ...
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Prepare a design for CMYK printing
This was asked in another thread. When I searched to see if this question has been asked before it was not. Per Meta we are encouraged to create threads that show quality solutions or to future ...
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Inkscape radial gradient center color visibly different from specified stop color
I use Radial Gradient in Inkscape.
PROBLEM: Color at center of radiant is much darker than defined stop color, as shown by red arrow:
How comes?
How can I make the color at the center to be the one ...
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Given a number, how to find that many colours that are well-distinguishable?
I'm interested in getting an method for obtaining n well-distinguishable colours, where n is just a given number. The purpose is for it to be implemented in an algorithmic way.
I have read other ...
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What is the difference between CMYK and RGB? Are there other color spaces I should know?
I'm a photographer, who dabbles in graphic design from time to time as well. What are the differences between the various color spaces?
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How to export PNG to be compatible with all browsers
I recently found our that some PNG files render a slightly different shade of color in Safari. (I think this is because Safari can't render PNG Gamma channel properly or what).
How do I export the ...
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How do you avoid bands of prominent color in gradients?
So this is more scientific visualization than graphic design, but I think the theory is the same. In colormaps used for visualizing data, there are often bands of color that stick out when they ...
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What is the relationship between hue, saturation and value?
I see people adding color on top of a gray-scale drawing and their colors look great, but when I do myself, the colors look terrible (dirty, not the color I seem to pick from the color wheel). People ...
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How to get RYB complementary colors in RGB imaging software
I am looking for a way to get RYB complementary colors in software. This means, complementary color pairs I am looking to get would be:
red - green
yellow - violet
blue - orange
However, when ...
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Darker shade of a given color
What does it mean and how do I get a darker shade of a given color. For example if I have the color
R = 53, G = 140, B = 205
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H = 204, S = 74, B = 80,
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#358CCD
What value do I change in ...
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How to get a hand colored effect in Illustrator or Photoshop?
How do you create a hand colored effect, like in the image above, using either Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop? I'd like to know how they colored the arrows and how to add a rough gradient like the ...
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How do I make alternating lines in a graphic visually distinct?
I draw a graphic consisting of N lines. I want every two lines to have a different color in order to be visually distinct.
Question: Which colors would you recommend? The longer the list, the better, ...
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Where can I input a color palette and find combining colors that fit in?
I use the Affecton template in a bit different way that it was designed to be used probably. I do not have as much content as it was designed to support. I have only couple of pictures on the page and ...
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How to create a color tinted black and white effect?
I was wondering how I would go about recreating this look on a photo using Photoshop?
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Proof printing for the web
I had this debate with a colleague and we didn't see anything solid or something from a search that would answer this with certainty so I thought I would open it here. You are designing a website or ...
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How do I move the color picker in a straight line?
Sometimes, when I'm trying to design something using a monochromatic color scheme, I want to make sure I get exact shades and tints of a specific color, but I don't know how I can do that because I ...
