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fantasy-alive ā Choosing Good Color Schemes
Published: 2010-02-14 21:51:43 +0000 UTC; Views: 7672; Favourites: 116; Downloads: 164
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This is my first tutorial. I know sometimes when Iām doing a web design or journal skin the coding is the easy part. The hardest part is getting past that first step of figuring out exactly what you want to do. One of the main things that inspires me and helps me over the hump is color schemes.I plan on doing a series of tutorials about how to be inspired to do a design. Please let me know if this is helpful. Your comments are always welcome.
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Very interesting! your right, I tried using 6 colors in the design of my website but it was too colorful, 4 to 5 colors are the best choice.
keep it up
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i like the suggestion of picking off-black and/or off-white instead of just plain black and white!
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I've always had trouble with what colours to use in my designs, I always use too much of one colour >.< Thanks for the tutorial
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You are very welcome.
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This is very interesting and useful. Do you think that the same principle can be used in a ilustration? I usually have problems choosing colors, specially in backgrounds. I tend to use only tones from same colors
And yes, more tutorials about this would be wonderful
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I think it could apply to illustrations too. Usually when I'm doing illustration work, color schemes come in handy.
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I'll try, I need to check those pages you mentioned, they look very interesting
Thanks!!
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I love those pages...they are a valuable resource.
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You are very welcome.
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Love the online tools you suggested! Great tutorial.
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Thank you. 
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I don't understand how exactly to pick these colors.
I hate having to guess which one is best,like 50 times each one.
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The way that I figure out color schemes alot of time is just feel and playing around with them. Sometimes I will choose five colors and see that they don't work as well as I thought, and I will alter them. Another really easy way to pick the colors is to go on the sites I mentioned in the tutorial and they have alot of great ideas.
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Well,I'm sure not good at picking colors at the top of my head. [link]
Mind of you check these for me?
SIIIIGH!*
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Nice. I am sure lots of people will find this very useful and it's a good tip to start with a colourscheme!
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I really appreciate it. 
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This is really good, can help me pick out the right colors for a css I'm trying to work on.
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I'm glad it helped you. Color is a tremendous inspiration for making a design.
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Oh yeah, though I am still thinking of how to make my own CSS journal. I just don't know how to put down the images into CSS code, I do have Dreamweaver that's supposed to be the top CSS coder. But mainly for websites.
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Yeah, Dreamweaver is a good program but relying on it to code for you sometimes leads to trouble. If you have any particular questions feel free to note me. Also check out #eCSSited because they have a lot of wonderful tutorials about coding for Journal Skins, which is a bit different than just coding a website.
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Oh yeah, now my brother told me the most tool is used for CSS is notepad/texteditor I think, to save files for HTML web. Heh, I'm in that group. Only there cause of the tutorials are really good.^^
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Yeah, the tutorials there are really good and helpful. Dreamweaver is a great tool but all you really need is a text editor though I do prefer to use Dreamweaver due to the live preview feature.
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Oh yeah. Heh, true. Dreamweaver has a good live preview which comes very good hands.^^
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It is very handy though the program is a little big pricey.
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Oh yeah, kinda sucks that it's very pricey.
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Thank you for one of the most useful tutorials out THERE!
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I'm very glad that it helped you.
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