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50 Best Free Tools To Create Perfect Color Combinations

50 Best Free Tools To Create Perfect Color Combinations
A good color combination has the tendency to communicate with the users and let them perceive the design in the correct way. That is the basic reason why you need to pick the right color for your design. So, here we are bringing 50 varieties of useful and valuable color tools that would help you choosing the right color palettes for your designs. You are welcome to share more color tools and resources which our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter and do not forget to become our fan on facebook as well. Color Scheme Designer Color Scheme Designer is a brand new interface, as well as the engine, all rewritten from the scratch. The Color Wizard The Color Wizard is a color matching application for anyone who wants to create designs with great looking colors. Contrast-A: Find Accessible Color Combinations Kuler Colors On The Web Color Wheel Color Calculator Kolur

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Pink Color - Instant Color Schemes List of Color Schemes: [More] View more schemes Most Popular: How are the colors chosen?We take 5 related images from Yahoo Image Search and then show the most prominent 6 colors from each image. HAPPY BIRTHDAY #TWITTER #5yrs . Now is #edtech20 #gr8twitter who revolutionize the concept of Global Sharing and Worldwide Collaboration . Strawberry Cake for all my followers from @web20education Twitter is the best web 2.0 microblogging tool for sharing using social media In only 140 character twitter bring a new dimenssion for global collaboration using new technologies . Click on the photos to follow #5yrs#twitter stream Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent messages and it is also an online tool that lets you write brief text updates – tweets . Twitter is the best microblogging tool for sharing using social media in nowadays education .

Psychology of Color [Infographic] Perhaps no choice is as vital to marketing as color. Whether you are selecting the color for a product or for your email marketing campaign, color has tremendous impact on all of us. Subconsciously, we associate different colors with different things. This infographic examines the psychology of color and looks at some common associations of different colors. color palette creator v1.6.1 This tool was inspired directly by the excellent Creating Color Palettes article by Andy Clarke. It will create 10 shades of the base color, located top-left, at varying degrees of opacity. The top row emulates opacity over a white background, the bottom over black (or colors of your choosing as of v1.4).

What Do Social Networkers Think of St. Patrick's Day? [INFOGRAPHIC] While you're making plans for St. Patrick's Day (this Thursday, March 17), take a look at this infographic that shows you what other social networkers will be doing, revealing their opinions of that green-beer-besotted holiday that's coming soon to a corner pub near you. To gather data, Lab 42 surveyed 405 social network users, and the company assures us those respondents were evenly distributed across all age groups and income levels. What do you think of St. Patrick's Day?

Coloring Pages for Adults Detailed Design Adult Coloring Pages Coloring pages drawn in designs especially for adults and teens are the best way to relax and be creative while making a personal work of art. Adult coloring pages and books are great for reducing stress and setting your mind free. If you loved to color as a child, or you want an interesting hobby that results in a work of art, why not start having fun again making art from the detailed designs created especially for grown ups and older kids? NOTE: All pages linked from this page are rated G and suitable for viewing by everyone.

Color Palette Generator Color Palette Generator URL of image: Make color schemes. Enter the URL of an image to get a color palette that matches the image. Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On - by Tim O'Reilly and John Battelle Five years ago, we launched a conference based on a simple idea, and that idea grew into a movement. The original Web 2.0 Conference (now the Web 2.0 Summit ) was designed to restore confidence in an industry that had lost its way after the dotcom bust. The Web was far from done, we argued. In fact, it was on its way to becoming a robust platform for a culture-changing generation of computer applications and services. In our first program, we asked why some companies survived the dotcom bust, while others had failed so miserably.

Warm Hex Color Codes: Hexadecimal codes for named colors used in HTML page features The Hex Hub Warms: red orange brown yellow yellowgreen Need mobile? There is a mobile-friendly version of these color charts. Warms: red orange brown yellow yellowgreenYou are here The chart below shows the hexadecimal color codes for shades of blue, teal, cyan, and similar colors. This page is part of The Hex Hub of The Color Spot at HTML Station. The Two Faces of Social Networking I've written in the past about the fact that one of the most underrated educational benefits of the iPad lies in it's ability to connect people. Whether through Facebook, Twitter, Facetime or others, mobile devices allow us to develop "learning communities" beyond the boundaries of any physical location. In giving workshops to educators and parents, I often highlight the concept of learning community as one of the most important advances of a 21st century education.

Quick Tip: Remove a Person From a Photo With Photoshop CS5’s Content Aware Feature With the launch of the new Adobe Suite of programs comes the long awaited Adobe Photoshop CS5. Packed with new features to speed up your workflow it truly is the most advanced edition of Photoshop to date. One of the new features we will be looking at today is called Content Aware. This feature allows you to quickly fill in a selection with surrounding content making it look like a part of the original image. In this case we will choose to remove a person from a photo, this can be done in less than five minutes. With the additional image enhancements this tutorial will take you less than 10 minutes to complete.

12 new file formats in the Google Docs Viewer - Docs Blog Cross-posted from the Google Enterprise blog. Editor's note: Hangouts On Air are live video chats, interviews, or performances that are broadcast to Google+. We’ll host these broadcasts from time to time on the Google Enterprise Google+ page to give you the inside scoop on our business and products. Last week, we hosted our first Hangout On Air from the Google Enterprise Google+ page with Jonathan Rochelle, Director of Product Management, Jeff Harris, Google Docs Product Manager, Teresa Wu, Google Docs Community Manager, and Eric Brunnett, Director of IT at Trump Hotel Collection. During the conversation, Jonathan Rochelle told us the story of how Google Docs, Google Drive and cloud collaboration came to be. What was once an experiment to bring desktop software to the web is now a collaboration and productivity platform used by millions of people in their personal lives and at businesses, universities, non-profits and government agencies around the world.

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