December 4, 2010

Tools for Choosing Color Combinations for Your Designs

Tools for Choosing Color Combinations for Your Designs
Many novice designers giddy and confused in determining color. Understandably, a graphic designer will not be considered an expert if not mastered the field of color. Errors in color selection can be fatal, some colors will make the eyes become tired
quickly if not combined with an appropriate color. Though everyone has their own taste in the choice of color combination, but there is a meeting point. Yes! harmony.

For those who struggle to determine the choice of color combinations in website creation, perhaps the sites below can provide inspiration in choosing colors.

1. Color Scheme Designer


Tools for Choosing Color Combinations for Your Designs

In essence, this tool makes it easy to create color combinations that fit with only sliding your mouse. The combination of colors that are produced quite good, but of course it should be sorted out according to your needs

2. Color Schemer


Tools for Choosing Color Combinations for Your Designs

On this site you can not create an interactive color combinations, but it provides some interesting color combinations that have been made by its members. Here we can find the desired color combinations such as "green", "dark", etc.

3. Adobe Kuler


Tools for Choosing Color Combinations for Your Designs

This site is quite popular among the others because it is dominated by graphic designers from photoshop community which can be accessed directly using some adobe software. In addition, the availability of a very diverse choice of templates to make this site very popular. This site is also user friendly, and the availability secular community of users is comparable with the rather slow access to website flash-based apps.

4. Aviary


Tools for Choosing Color Combinations for Your Designs

This website is operated by sifting through several categories to access pages quickly and easily. It looks quite bright and it makes it pleasing to the eye and of course will be easy to operate for the benefit of our design work.

5. Pictaculous


Tools for Choosing Color Combinations for Your Designs

The hardest thing in designing a web is the selection of colors. But now many aids in color selection. We no longer bother to choose a color theme for a particular image using pictaculous. First prepare an image as a Pantone color sample. Using pictacuulous quite handy in which there is a reference color and directly connected with the advice of Kuler and colourlovers. Glance can be summarized as follows.

Tools for Choosing Color Combinations for Your Designs

-First open the site from your browser.
-browse the sample picture that you have prepared.
-Click on "get my pallete" button.
-Once the process is completed scroll to the bottom, itu should bring up your template and some color advice from Kuler and Color lovers.

6. Color Hunter


Tools for Choosing Color Combinations for Your Designs

It can make color palettes from images.

7. Color Combinations | Color Schemes | Color Palettes


Tools for Choosing Color Combinations for Your Designs

That will include the color of his labs by writing as a combo or Combos. It's worth a shot! It suggests the bright colors that we usually find on the website.

8. ColorJack: Sphere (Color Theory Visualizer)


Tools for Choosing Color Combinations for Your Designs

Color jack emerged as a site of color, it works with to favor the use of the color circle and the results can be directly exported via design software such as adobe illustrator, photoshop, and so forth.

9. Veerle’s Topp, Daily Color Scheme


Tools for Choosing Color Combinations for Your Designs

Color scheme is great demand by graphic designers are also utilized by this website. Access to this site could become an option to look for color. You can download the scheme with the extension of design software such as AI and other.

10. Colour Lovers


Tools for Choosing Color Combinations for Your Designs

Assistance from the community by sharing the obtainment of color make this site excel in their field. Look at secular adobe is very similar to this site with just a different flash.

11. Pantone


Tools for Choosing Color Combinations for Your Designs

As the name implies, this website is special in Pantone, it uses an accurate geo system. I say accurate because there are some experts who made up the color in the color catalog is the art plus the science of calculation, especially this site provides a choice: ORIGINAL Pantone matching system. Well you could try this site if you want to view Pantone matching (not tacky).

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4 Comments

Somehow, with these tools, a lot of people who have the passion in graphic designing will be more inspired to develop their skills. Also these tools, will encourage newbies on graphic designing. I find this post very useful for a newbie like me as well as a motivational factor to explore more on color combinations.Thanks for the dedication of sharing it.

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Indeed, this post is an informative one. you allow your readers to be informed at the same time encourage them to explore the passion they have in graphics designing. I will add them to my list.

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Thanks for sharing. As a designer i do follow colorlovers at most.

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I'm a big fan of ColorLovers, there I can find what I need. ColorLovers is the only one that I know from this list but I'll enjoy watching on the others sites.

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