Picking Colors for your Design

Quite a nice and inspirational little video here from From the Couch:

The video documents the tutorial in Adobe Fireworks (I think), but the principle applies to any piece of software you might be using.

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  1. David Perel said at 5:35 am on February 23, 2009

    Hi Eli, Thanks for including the episode on your blog ;)

  2. Eli said at 6:00 am on February 23, 2009 Post author

    My pleasure! Will probably have to feature more in the near future ;)

  3. Jack Smith said at 5:36 pm on February 25, 2009

    Thanks for your time. I really enjoyed the tutorial. I do a lot of photography and have so many photos I like but I hadn’t thought of using them to design a palette. Cheers.

  4. Trisha Cupra said at 11:24 pm on February 25, 2009

    Here’s an automated way of doing this (without the variations) – http://www.cssdrive.com/imagepalette/index.php

  5. Anna Green said at 9:26 am on April 1, 2009

    This is a great way of creating a natural colour pallet that you wouldn’t necessarily come up with if staring at a blank piece of paper. Another tool i sometimes use is called Abode Kular, this site is good for when you already have a main colour say a customers corporate ID colour but need to create a pallet around it.

  6. Aran said at 2:19 pm on April 20, 2009

    Fantastic video, we have been doing this for a few years now, love the way you chose three shades of black, just awesome!

    Thanks for this!

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