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New Project Problems

November 19th, 2004 by Mike

If you haven’t noticed, I’ve talking a bit about a new web site / project I’m working on, along with the web sites I make at work (I know I have a sickness). My last post talked about how I can’t, for some reason, turn the corner in my skills with CSS. However, that has passed! I guess writing about it worked, becuase something clicked, CSS is a much closer to being my bitch now.

The problem that I’m currently fighting with is: Colors and Pictures. Lame huh? But I just can’t seem to get happy with a color scheme, but the bigger problem is that my Photoshop skills are pathetic! I don’t know where these people that have the cool looking blogs and pages on CSS Vault or CSS Beauty picked up their Photoshop chops! Everything I make looks ok, but not good or great. And the backgrounds for different objects on the page I can’t even begin to not look like crap.

The objects themselves are where they should be, but it just looks like crap. Any Photoshop geeks out there wanna let me know how I can take that next step? And anyone else out there wanna help me with some color schemes?

This one site is just giving me trouble.

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  • Well, not to brag, but I've been paid to play with photoshop for the last 5 years. I think I've gotten fairly compentent. You want an easy way to get a color sheme? Use the color picker to choose one color that you like, regardless of how light or how dark. Then from that color, choose a number of colors 20 units lighter and darker from that base color (use the hue/saturation box). You can use the saturation slider to tweek individual colors. As long as you use a consistant value in the hue\sat. box to jump from color to color, your colors will compliment eachother nicely. Using the hue slider (opposed from the sat. and lightness) is a little more tricky, but using it you can find different colors that have the same intensity as your base color. Hope this helps. If I get a chance I'll post an example of what I mean, but it'd won't be for a day or two.
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