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Questions about colors, different color space, RGB or CMYK color model, transparent color, using or changing colors.

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Sources for Color Theory or Psychology of Color

This is a valuable resource for quickly summarizing different meanings of colours across different cultures. We often forget that in different countries a colour can mean something quite different! C …
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Are "web-safe" colors still important?

Mostly you have nothing to worry about. An extraordinary majority of visitors to a site will be able to support more than 256 colors these days. If for some reason your userbase is likely to have a …
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What is the difference between CMYK and RGB? Are there other color spaces I should know?

CMYK and RGB are the two colour spaces, methods of creating colour. CMYK is subtractive, like paint/pigment. you start with nothing (white paper) and as you add more colours it eventually turns blac …
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Add exact color to texture

I know a number of ways to color it (mostly in PS), from overlaying it on a block of the color, adding a hue/saturation layer.. that way I can get it vaguely the right colour, what if I have a specific … Is there a general process I can follow to keep the texture of the image on the left and apply the color on the right without too much trial and error? …
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Completely different interpretation of Pantone to RGB values depending where I look.

I'm making a web site and have been told the corporate color is pantone 2745. In illustrator, here, and here it is a deep indigo color. Here, here, here and here it is a deep violet sort of color. …
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