An Easy Way to Choose Attractive Color Combinations

Written by Sunil Tanna


An Easy Way to Choose Attractive Color Combinations by Sunil Tanna of Answers 2000 http://www.ans2000.com/

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Lots of people struggle to come up with attractive color combinations when designing logos, banners or web sites. So, here's an easy technique that only takes a few minutes.

What You Need:

1. An image that you like, maybe one that you think ties in withrepparttar 143624 theme of whatever you're designing.

2. A paint program with an eye dropper tool.

Method:

1. Loadrepparttar 143625 image into your paint program.

2. If you want a color scheme consisting of colors that are inrepparttar 143626 browser color-safe palette, and your paint program (not every program does) has a function to convert images into color-safe palettes, use it now.

If you don't know what I mean by color-safe palette, see http://www.graphicsacademy.com/what_colorsafe.php

If your want color-safe colors, but your paint program doesn't have a function to convert images into it, don't worry, I'll show you how to convert colors manually atrepparttar 143627 end of this article. In this case, proceed with steps 3 and 4, and then atrepparttar 143628 end manually convert each of your chosen colors to browser-safe colors usingrepparttar 143629 method explained below.

3. Now userepparttar 143630 eye dropper tool to paint program to pick-up one ofrepparttar 143631 most prominent colors inrepparttar 143632 image. Somewhere in your paint program there should be a function to give yourepparttar 143633 Red, Green and Blue values (three numbers) forrepparttar 143634 color selected (in some paint programs it's even displayed inrepparttar 143635 status bar). Make a note ofrepparttar 143636 three numbers.

Using and Converting to Color-Safe Palettes

Written by Sunil Tanna


Using and Converting to Color-Safe Palettes by Sunil Tanna of Answers 2000 http://www.ans2000.com/

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When you design web pages in HTML, as you probably know, you can use a tremendous range of colors (over 16 million) for fonts, tables, backgrounds and so forth usingrepparttar 143623 COLOR attribute ofrepparttar 143624 various HTML tags.

One thing that many novice webmasters don't think about is whether these colors will be displayed correctly onrepparttar 143625 screens of visitors who don't haverepparttar 143626 latest whiz-bang graphics cards.

There are still people out there who have a graphics cards which are only capable of displaying 256 colors at once. In these cases,repparttar 143627 only colors which you can be sure will be displayed correctly are those inrepparttar 143628 browser-safe color palette.

For information aboutrepparttar 143629 browser-safe color palette see: http://www.graphicsacademy.com/what_colorsafe.php

So what happens if your web page includes a color that isn't inrepparttar 143630 color-safe palette, and a person tries to view on a 256 color screen?

Answer: It depends onrepparttar 143631 user's web browser.

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