Archive for the 'style' Category
Being a successful creative has a lot to do with the way you work. Sure, you can’t teach good design, but it never hurts to learn a few new tricks, or simply make the most of your talents. So without further adieu, here’s 50 ways to be more successful as a designer. Take ‘em or leave ‘em.
How the greatest masters of painting, can inspire us with color…
Adobe Kuler is useful Flash goodie for designers who need some good colors schemes for their webpages, blog templates, brochures or even business cards.
Adobe Kuler works completely inside the web browser - no downloads, no installation - but you can download colors schemes on your hard drive or share them with other designers.
Start by choosing a base color either by clicking the color wheel spectrum or manually typing the RGB, HEX or CMYK value - Kuler will than generate matching colors for you depending on the style you have selected.
You can refine the generated colors again by typing the color values or dragging the sliders or through the color wheel itself.
And if you are one of those non-creative minds [like me] who are bad at creating color themes but badly need a color scheme pattern for their blog - just follow the highest rated section that has probably the most appealing color schemes rated by existing Adobe Kuler users.
Kuler - Gear up to play with colors.
New Mac Company Introduces the World’s First GPU-powered Image Editor
Founded by brothers Saulius and Aidas Dailide in 2007, the Pixelmator Team today introduced Pixelmator, the world’s first GPU-powered image editing tool that provides everything needed to create, edit, and enhance still images.
“Finally, an innovative, fast, and easy-to-use image editor for Mac OS X that brings the power of todays expensive image production tools to every Mac user at a very affordable price,” said Saulius Dailide, Pixelmator Team. “We think all Mac people—home users as well as professionals—will find Pixelmator very usefull and fun”. Continue reading ‘Pixelmator’
“Whether you’re defusing a ticking time bomb, or you’re trying to design a decentlooking site, if you choose the wrong color, you’re doomed. Okay, so the wrong color selection for a client’s site might not be the death of you,but it could curtail your budding career as a web designer.
Choosing colors is no simple matter. There are aesthetic, identity, and usability considerations to take into account. And, to make matters worse, most modern displays can render more than 16 million colors. That’s an infinite number of horrible color combinations just waiting to happen!”
”THE PRINCIPLES OF BEAUTIFUL WEB DESIGN”
by JASON BEAIRD
Creme:
Kuler (Color schemesm by Adobe Labs)
Colors of Web 2.0
Web 2.0 Secret Design Weapon
Adam Polselli
Color Palette