Looking for a new color palette for you next web project? How about consulting nature? CololLovers have posted a list of 18 butterflies and their color palettes. My favorites are the Butterfly Brown, Waiting to Fly and Silver Studded Blue.
If you design web sites and use a Mac, you must check out Sim Daltonism. It’s a small little application that allows you to preview your work as a person with color blindness would see it. The program lets you choose between 8 filters of the four types of color blindness.
Are you color challenged? If you’re wife puts out your clothes for you in the morning, you might want to check out Palette Grabber. It’s a simple extension that will convert the color palette of any web page into a palette file that you can import into Photoshop!
Alessandro at Web Graphics has made his Handy Color Palette available for others to use. He explains that he often he’s never had great color sense, so he created this palette with 144 colors that he could refer to whenever he needed to build a palette in an easy way.
Do you feel like being Ted Turner and colorize black and white photos? Recolored is a pretty sweet free application for Windows that let’s you colorize B&W photos by simply drawing colored lines over top of regions of your pictures. There was a video circulating arount the ‘net a few months ago that showed how the technique would work. Now it’s actually an application that works very well!
Microsoft has just released a new Color Control Panel Applet for Windows XP that is available as a free download. Using the Microsoft Color Control Panel Applet, you can:
Most of this means nothing to me, but for those of you who are kick-ass designers, the tool may be very useful!
