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Color Questions a Designer Should Ask Their Printer - Find out what questions you should ask your printer before submitting your documents.
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Browser Safe Color Palettes The Browser Safe palette, as I so named it, is the actual palette that Mosaic, Netscape and Internet Explorer use within their browsers. The palettes used by these browsers are slightly different on Macs and PCs.
Introduction to colour - additive-subtractive colour, colour wheel & gamuts
Bitmaps & CMYK Process - plus separations, colour filters & cmy inks
Choosing Correct Colours - save money, learn spot & process colour
Colors - Lists and shows the possible colors on the web
Color Management Explained - The International Color Consortium offers this layman’s explanation of the arcane science of color management.
Digital Colour Proves Its Potential - The market for digital colour printing it is agreed is becoming larger helped by increasingly sophisticated product choices.
Does
Paper Color Count as a Printing Color? - When
someone tells you that a printing job is a two color job
and that it's printed on creme paper, does that mean that
it uses one ink color and the stock color?
Graphics
and Palettes enlightenment on the mysteries of indexed
palettes
How Many Colors Should I Use? - Here isn't a simple black and white answer to this question (pun intended). The real issue is "How many inks should I use?" A brochure might appear to be using dozens of colors but it's only using four process inks while an eight-color brochure appears to be using half that many colors.
Process Vs. Spot Color - When combined, the four process inks--cyan, magenta, yellow, and black, or CMYK for short--can produce a wide range of colors, often far more than you will need for your project.
Showing Its True Colours - The demand for colour is driving digital growth, but what other developments have there been this year?
The World of Color Giving your page a unique appeal is as simple as selecting the right background and text colors. But first, you need to spend some time exploring the color universe and looking for the most captivating and least hackneyed colors.
True Color - Do your marketing materials give your company a consistent look? Consistency can help your company look professional. Guest author Joseph Szala helps you tame your colors with three simple steps.
Two Quick Color Tips From Your Friendly Imagesetter - The following information will help you with setting up your project.
Using color to bring harmony to photographs - If you read my series on designing with photos you heard me mention color 'harmony' again and again. In those scenarios -- when you've got top-name designers and huge budgets -- you can do just about what you want.
What Is CMYK Color? - What Is CMYK Color?
What is Spot Color? - If a designer needs to match a particular color (a logo color perhaps) in a printed piece or has a limited budget, then spot color is something to consider. Spot colors can also be used alongside process (CMYK) colors for greater flexibility.
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