Here is a good tip for remembering colours when you’re designing a website for a client or for yourself. Trying to remember colours can be a bit daunting at times so I devised a way of remembering the colours you want to use when designing a website. I got the idea from a magazine actually… not literally, if you look at any magazine there is always a colour swatch somewhere at the back of the magazine down the side of the page. Well I was thinking of using the same technique when designing a web template in Photoshop.

 

Create a Grope and call it Palette, then create a series of layouts. Name the layouts as the colours you’re using for the design, for example… #5381ac. All I do then is go to shapes and select “Rounded Rectangle Tool” and then create a rectangle 42px x 42px and keep doing so then appear in line. This is good for reference because I am dreadful for forgetting colours; I come up with a colour then if I don’t make a note of it I tend to forget. The picture is from a web template I am working on at the moment, these are not the actual colours they are for illustration only, just to give you an idea to what I’m explaining.

 

the colours on newspapers and magazines aren't to remember what they are, its to do with the printing. The CMYK is what is used for it. So, dots or bars, that represent every colour that should be on the paper are printed near the edge of the sheet, where it's easy for the printer to see them. If a dot or bar is missing, he knows that a colour is not printing properly. A newspaper is fairly low-grade printing, and newspaper offices are always pressed for time, which means that the coloured dots don't get cut off as they do in bookbinding.

nothing better than a good grope

nothing better than a good grope

 

lol

...by the hit-and-miss method.

...in the dark?

Here is a good tip for remembering colours when you’re designing a website for a client or for yourself. Trying to remember colours can be a bit daunting at times so I devised a way of remembering the colours you want to use when designing a website. I got the idea from a magazine actually… not literally, if you look at any magazine there is always a colour swatch somewhere at the back of the magazine down the side of the page. Well I was thinking of using the same technique when designing a web template in Photoshop.

 

Create a Grope and call it Palette, then create a series of layouts. Name the layouts as the colours you’re using for the design, for example… #5381ac. All I do then is go to shapes and select “Rounded Rectangle Tool” and then create a rectangle 42px x 42px and keep doing so then appear in line. This is good for reference because I am dreadful for forgetting colours; I come up with a colour then if I don’t make a note of it I tend to forget. The picture is from a web template I am working on at the moment, these are not the actual colours they are for illustration only, just to give you an idea to what I’m explaining.

 

 

I just do a paint blob... then pick it up with the eye dropper....

^Easiest way possible