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Unify Your Colors For Polished Web Design!In web design, carrying a consistent color palette through all images on a web page provides visual unity. With a few minor tweaks in Photoshop or any other graphic program, you can really pull a web site design together, improving your site in a polished, subtle way. Here's one way it can be done. We will use this web design for a real estate web site as our sample:
The end result; the images all look as if they were shot by the same photographer for this project. A unified, polished, high concept look with just a few minor tweaks of color!
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THE USE OF COLOR: A two color web design that works... Choosing the perfect colors... Set the mood in web design with great colors... Unify your your colors for a polished web design... For a Free No Obligation Consultation on your best web design ever... Click here... Contact Information:
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In this web site, the images I selected all
had nice tan tones to complement the color scheme of the site. However, I wanted
each image to also have the same accent color. I decided to use purple as the
accent color, providing a pleasing contrast to the tan shades. However, only one
of the original images used on this site had purple in it--the large image of
the sofa in the left side of the web page. I wanted to use the purple in the
quilt on the couch throughout the design. To unify the color scheme in all the
images on this page, I manipulated each image to add purple to it in Image
Composer.
First, I added purple to the shadows in the
photo of the vase, giving it a purple cast. The BEFORE picture here shows the
original image. Using the color tools in Photoshop, I added purple to the
shadows. Notice how it now matches the graphic of the sofa in the AFTER graphic!
Next, I selected the round pillow in the second image (the chaise) and used the
Hue, Saturation Tool in Photoshop to re-color it purple. Also, I also subtlety
changed the color tint in the wall in the extreme left side of the photo from a
tint of blue to a tint of purple. Finally, I selected the slippers in the third
image, changing them from black to purple.