Color palettes, interior designs and fun stuff
Friday, February 27, 2009
CSS Drive has launched the new Image to Colors Palette Generator! To get start you'll need to upload an image or submit an image URL to generate a color palette based on the image's primary colors.The extra benefits you can get from this handy Image to Colors Palette Generator:
- It supports various image file format: .PNG, .GIF, .JPG and JPEG
- Instantly generates Photoshop swatches (.ACO) and CSS stylesheet (.CSS) as you can download these files for further design process.
- Click on one of the color on the palette will show you the Hex code of that related color. You can compare between the Selected color and the Current color, as the Current color swatch will dynamically changes the color and hexa when your cursor is moving on the color palette.
- It produces 4 different palettes for efficient use of extracted colors, which are: Light Color Palette, Medium Color Palette, Dark Color Palette and Complete Color Palette.
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The new Chicago-based interior design business Kelly + Olive is offering a giveaway to How About Orange readers! (You don't have to live in Chicago to take advantage.) If you've been helplessly wondering what to do with that blah room in your house or apartment, the "young, professional, modern, whimsical, pragmatic, ecclectic, and thrifty" pair from Kelly + Olive will help you solve your decorating dilemma.
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Could these be the 20 Most Interesting jQuery plugins? AjaxLine.com seems to think they've got a great collection of plugins, including the Ajax Fancy Captcha that helps you protect your web pages from boys and spammers.
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And I simply love this little chair. Covered down to the legs with fabric, the chair appears to be dressed in a pantskirt.
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Twelve-year-old Max Wallack of Natick spent a day last week being followed around by television cameras, hanging out with engineers and building a model of his latest invention: A shelter for the homeless made from plastic, wire and packing peanuts.
The folks at the WGBH show "Design Squad" selected Wallack's idea from more than 1,000 entries for their Trash to Treasure contest. As the grand prize winner, he will receive $10,000 from the Intel Foundation and a laptop computer.
Labels: chairs, color theory, concepts, css, interior design, jquery
Poster Art, jQuery and Hotel Lobby or Home page?
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Smileycat.com has a really great article called, "Are You Focusing Too Much on Your Home Page?" In a conversation with a client the idea of a website's main page being the most important part is debated. The argument goes on to compare a website to a hotel. An excerpt is pasted below for you to read, but I highly recommend you click the link above to read the full article. I explained to her that she should think of her home page like the lobby of a hotel (an idea coined, I believe, also by Jared Spool).
When visitors arrive at your hotel, certainly they should find that the lobby represents the hotel favorably. It should be attractive, spacious, with elegant lighting, welcoming colors, and the odd feature here and there.
The lobby should make it easy for the visitor to orient themselves - to see where the front desk is and where the lifts are. It should make it easy for the guest to find out any important information at a glance - upcoming events or where the conference is being held.
However, hotels are ultimately judged by the quality of their rooms. The last hotel I stayed in was the W in Seattle. While it has a nice lobby, it's the rooms that really make a stay there memorable.
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Grab a jQuery 1.3 cheat sheet at CSS Clip.
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Kdenlive free open-source non-linear video editor for KDE. Kdenlive is an intuitive and powerful multi-track video editor, including most recent video technologies. It relies on a separate renderer, piave, to handle it’s rendering. Kdenlive is easy to use for all levels of users from novice to advanced video editors. Kdenlive is built upon MLT and ffmpeg frameworks, which provide unique features to mix virtually any kind of media.
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Bitt Box is offering wrinkled paper textures as part of their weekly Texture Tuesday freebies. But you should bookmark and subscribe to the Bitt Box feed every day because it has a wealth of design resources.
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In the mood for some poster art to inspire your new creations or just give you some eye candy to look at? Design Is Mine did a whole round up of favorites with links to the artists which is pretty cool.
Labels: bittbox, jquery, poster design, textures, video editing, web design
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