Monthly Archives: July 2004 - Page 3

spin the colour wheel

Colours on the web – color theory and color matching: http://www.webwhirlers.com/colors/wheel.asp

“Are you about to give up? Just can’t find the right colours for your page?
Well, here is the solution for you!
Just Spin the colour wheel and get a selection of three random colours.
The colour wheel randomizes among some 16 million colours. And since each spin produces three different colours, that gives endless combinations. (or 2 to the power of 70 or so, which is a very large number). Enough to keep anyone busy for a while.”

Excellent mindless clicking, or a handy tool for the lazy/non-art educated who want to create lively but not clashing schemes. Beats my usual ‘make patterns in hex’ approach to colour selection…

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pretty shiny glowing things

UserFriendly Strip Comments: http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20040703&mode=classic

Hmm, ok. Maybe my obsession with LEDs is simply a geek thing and not that odd afterall…

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direct artist distribution

They Might Be Giants – Downloads/News/Shows/Ephemera: http://www.theymightbegiants.com/

Similar pricing structure to the iTunes store (99c/$9.99) but the files come direct from the Artist, are encoded at 256kbps and come DRM-free. Nice.

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simulating film effects digitally

Jeremy Daalder Photography Official Site – Simulating Classic Film Effects in Photoshop: http://www.jeremydaalder.com/singleArticle.php?articleID=4

A lot of interesting info. Not so great for non-Photoshop users (ie: people with normal incomes and Elements 2 :) ) but I’m sure that with some creative thinking the ideas could give rise to some interesting results.

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