I am an Engineer so I have a problem when it comes to working with colours
For years choosing the right colours to use in presentations was very difficult, and I always had to rely on the designers I worked with to put me right.
Now I work for myself things could have been a lot a harder, but I found the solution on the internet.
There are any number of sites out there willing to tell you the right colour combinations to use, but there are two that I find are really useful.
They both use 5 colour pallets which is great when you have a large number of components in a cross section to differentiate.
They both also rate the pallets, so you judge if a colour scheme works for you, and also have the confidence to know that a lot of other people agree.
www.coulourlovers.com
kuler.adobe.comIf you sign up to the sites you can download the colour pallet of your choice directly as a Photoshop colour swatch and then use the eyedropper tool to identify the colour as an RGB value for inclusion into Solidworks or Photoworks.
There is a more convenient way of working with these colour pallets within Solidworks and Photoworks which I will discuss in the next posting.
I hear about not being able to pick colors out, let alone a color pallet. I need ‘Gar-Animals’ to help coordinate my wardrobe….
Looking forward to reading your blog.
Regards,
Anna
Just looked at Garanimals and they are a good source for colour pallets,
I found this site after reading your comment http://www.fashiontrendsetter.com/content/color_trends.html a really rich source of fashion colour info, never occurred to me to look at fashion sites for colour until you mentioned it, but I suppose it is obvious really. May look at this in more detail later.
Thanks for the comment
Regards
Brian