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Using Bitwise Operators to Manipulate Bits and Colors. This article may contain old or obsolete information related to Adobe products and technologies.

Using Bitwise Operators to Manipulate Bits and Colors

To find more current information, please visit the Adobe Developer Connection. Binary Basics In everyday life, you deal with numbers using a base 10, or decimal, representation. This means that each digit in the number is given a value 10 times greater than the digit to its right. This becomes clear when you break a number into the sum of its digits: 89,403 = (8 x 10,000) + (9 x 1000) + (4 x 100) + (0 x 10) + (3 x 1) Looking at the above, you can see that a number represented in base 10 is in fact the sum of each of its digits multiplied by powers of 10, beginning with 10 to the power of 0 (anything to the power of 0 equals 1) for the least significant (rightmost) digit, and increasing successively with the significance of the digit:

Graphic Effects Learning Guide for Flash: Color. Color effects are simple color transformations that can be applied to movie clips, text, and buttons.

Graphic Effects Learning Guide for Flash: Color

Whenever one of these types of objects is selected, the Color Effect area on the Properties panel becomes active, allowing you to assign or remove an effect from the object. You can animate color effects to create effects such as fades and color changes. PNG images - PNG Image Format. Portable Network Graphics - PNG The PNG compression algorithm is one of the best that can be found.

PNG images - PNG Image Format

Unlike standard JPEG images, PNG compression involves no loss of image data, so there is no smudging or blurring. In some cases, filtering can compress the image data even more. Each horizontal line in an image can have one of five filter types associated with it. Whether specifying a filter helps in a particular case depends on the image content. Color Palette Generator. Adobe Illustrator Swatches, Illustrator Patterns, Free Illustrator CS4, CS3 Patterns Swatches, Seamless Patterns, Free Gradients, Gradient Swatches, More - Illustrator Brushes, Symbols, Tutorials, Books, Resources - Web Site Resources, Website Tips, Websi. Adobe Illustrator Swatches and Patterns Swatches Within the Adobe Illustrator Swatches and Patterns page below you'll find high quality commercial and free Adobe Illustrator swatches, gradient swatches, vector patterns, seamless vector patterns, and more.

Adobe Illustrator Swatches, Illustrator Patterns, Free Illustrator CS4, CS3 Patterns Swatches, Seamless Patterns, Free Gradients, Gradient Swatches, More - Illustrator Brushes, Symbols, Tutorials, Books, Resources - Web Site Resources, Website Tips, Websi

Many of the freebies include accompanying Illustrator tutorials and tips, along with other commercial or free Illustrator brushes, symbols, shapes, vector images, and more. All listings below come highly recommended, and I've personally tried and used quite a few of the Illustrator swatches and patterns. Color Wheel Color Calculator - Sessions College for Professional Design.

The color wheel is a chart representing the relationships between colors.

Color Wheel Color Calculator - Sessions College for Professional Design

Based on a circle showing the colors of the spectrum originally fashioned by Sir Isaac Newton in 1666, the colour wheel he created serves many purposes today. Painters use it to identify colors to mix and designers use it to choose colors that go well together. Color Chart with RGB Values. Copyright © 1999-2012 GoDaddy.com, LLC.

Color Chart with RGB Values

All rights reserved. *One FREE .COM, .CO, .NET or .ORG with purchase of a new 12-, 24- or 36-month website builder plan. Plus ICANN fee of $0.18 per domain name per year. You must add the domain name into your cart before purchase, and you must select a domain term length equal to or less than the term length of your website builder plan to qualify for the free domain offer. RGB to Hexadecimal Color Codes Chart. RGB Color Wheel & Color Map. Online Color Scheme Generator. Free screen color picker from ColorSchemer. [pc]FREEv1.1ColorSchemer ColorPix ColorPix is a useful little color picker that grabs the pixel under your mouse and transforms it into a number of different color formats.

Free screen color picker from ColorSchemer

You can use the built-in magnifier to zoom in on your screen, click on a color value to copy it directly to the clipboard, and even keep ColorPix on top of all other apps and out of the way. Best of all, there's nothing to install - just download the tiny app and off you go. So grab it now, it's FREE! ColorPix Screenshots Click on any of the thumbnails below to pop up a full sized screenshot: ColorPix Window This is the actual size of the ColorPix window. ColorPix Window with Magnifier Expanding the ColorPix window to show the magnifier lets you zoom in on your screen underneath your mouse. Webmaster's Color Lab. VisiBone VACCC. There are 60 hues in the palette, and each one has a name here, for example Red, Red-Orange, Yellow-Spring, Magenta-Magenta-Violet.

VisiBone VACCC

Some hues have as many as fifteen shades in the palette, some only one. The shades of a given hue are grouped together. The vividness of a shade is also called its saturation. The lightness/darkness is called its brightness or intensity. Excerpt of the Webmaster's Palette Poster Light Ramblings: Perception Versus Reality Peter Hamer correctly points out that this naming scheme should not be confused with names given to spectral colors, such as those that follow the mnemonic "Roy G.

Jovian software. Introduction Chapter 1 - About Jovian Jovian started out as a color picker plugin for LightWave 3D, but it has now become a stand alone program on Windows as well as a System Color Picker plugin on Mac OSX. On Windows, Jovian uses a specially designed technique which allows it to override the standard Windows color picker. Bringing Jovian's advanced color picking tools to even the most basic paint program. Jovian's User Interface.

HTML Color Code Chooser. The wonderful people at Site Pro Central have allowed me to mirror the extremely useful HTML Color Combination Chooser originally found at . The revenue generated from the ads goes directly to them to support the effort they put in to make this tool available. The warning symbol shows when there is a difference between the chosen colour and the base output colour. It is important to note that RGB has a far greater range of colours than the pigment based RYB colour wheel. Colour sphere by ColorJack. Color Theory @ ColorJack. RYB Color Wheel. This color wheel is a chart that shows how colors are related and sorted.

RYB Color Wheel

It has Primary Colors, Secondary Colors, and Tertiary Colors and shows their relationship to each other. RGB Color Scheme Designer. Dynamic Color Picker. Color Selection. Color Conversion Tool Famous Colors on logos Google uses bold, primary colors in its corporate logo.

Color Selection

Color Psychology Folklore Different cultures have different positive and negative associations with each color: From Thinkful's excellent yet concise item on colors. Web Color Codes. 12 Tone Color Music Palette.