Think Color
Posted by Snap! on August 3rd, 2007
We often find seasoned bloggers using clean templates with little or no color and hardly any imagery. Colors and graphics do make a theme visually appealing, however they do conflict with the content if not used carefully. All themes cannot be plain and generic though, so for those of you who love colors and are constantly looking for inspiration, here are a few resources (which some of you might be familiar with) to jazz up your themes!
COLOUR lovers is a resource that monitors and influences color trends by providing not only color galleries, but a palette of the trendiest colors in the blogosphere based on a variety of genres. It would serve as a good reference guide for web design, architectural specifications, interiors, product design, ad campaigns, magazines, etc. You can also suggest a website of your choice for an add. It’s cool and contemporary, and one of the hottest sites for color resources.
Color Combos offers a variety of irresistible features such as:
Combo Tester: Extracts colors from websites, gives complimentary color options, gives text color options, and you can even try your own template with different header, sidebar, footer color and text options.
Color Library: For color combination ideas
Articles: On colors, color meaning and application.
Daily color scheme (Beta) provides you one inspirational and usable easy color scheme a day. If you do not want to use the colorpicker or the eyedropper tool, this site is for you. As of now, you cannot make a search to get instant color information of a site that is not listed in their archives. The enhanced search feature will definitely make it a steal.
The ColorBurn widget features a new color palette every day with 4 colors, along with its hexadecimal values. Each daily palette has the option to change your background from black to white and back again. Previous palettes are saved for one week.
Color Schemer Studio is a professional color matching application for anyone from hobbyists to advanced professionals. Mix, match, darken, lighten, and add your own color combinations to the gallery.
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Free Photoshop Brushes by Hawksmont
Posted by Snap! on July 28th, 2007
Photoshop brushes are artistic tools for creating collages, icons, making borders of photographs and images, blending images and graphics, which artists and web designers cannot do without. If you have already bookmarked Bittbox set of freebies, here’s another one to bookmark.
“Making brushes is easier than I thought. Just drawing, saving as a brush and that’s it!”, says the Polish artist from Hawksmont.com.
Wow, if only it were as easy for all!
Here’s a small collection of some of the various possibilites of creating various impressions with varied textures which evoke different feelings altogether. You can download these free Photoshop brushes and many more such as grunge, bubbles, stars, guns, etc. from the Hawksmont.com Free Graphic Resources.
Free Dill Brushes
Free Doodle Brushes
Free Splatter Brushes
Free Hearts Brushes
Free Floral Brushes
Tagged: Artistic tools, Bittbox, Bubbles, Design Tools, Doodle, Fingerprints, Floral, Fractal, Free Downloads, Free Photoshop Brushes, Freebies | Free Web 2.0 Icons, Graphics, Guns, Hawksmont, Hearts, Ink Splatter, PimpDaBlog, RSS Feeds, Resources, Selection, Skyline, Stars, wpsnap
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Freebies: Free Foliage Vectors and Illustrator Brushes
Posted by Snap! on July 24th, 2007
If you love Photoshop, graphics, images, colors, textures, layers, etc., you must bookmark the Bittbox set of freebies, because this is a unique set of freebies that is a class apart! I could have added other interesting freebies on this post, but Bittbox deserves a special mention.
It’s arty, it’s vibrant, it’s versatile.
This set of free foliage vectors made in Illustrator is available in AI, EPS and SVG formats.
This set of free Illustrator brushes (Teardrop Foliage) can be used to make Foliage with rounded edges. Simple, yet captivating.
Free High-Res Grunge Ink Splatter Brushes” />Squawkdesign.com’s high-resolution scans converted to free ink splatter brushes.
If you like these, head over to the site to check more.
Tagged: Amazing blog, Artistic tools, Bittbox, Creative, Free Downloads, Free Foliage Vectors, Free Illustrator Brushes, Free Photoshop Brushes, Free Vectors, Freebies | Free Web 2.0 Icons, Graphics, Hearts, Ink Splatter, PimpDaBlog, RSS Feeds, Resources, Teardrop Foliage, wpsnap
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