Color choice is a key element to the success of any design. It invokes an atmosphere and sets the mood. One method for using color is to use only shades of a color, which is known as a monochromatic color scheme.
Of all the color schemes, the monochromatic is one of the easiest to pull off successfully. This reason for such ease is that one shade of a color will naturally almost always work with another shade of the same color.
One of the most popular monochromatic color schemes is Blue. This is likely because blue is seen as trustworthy, dependable and committed. Blue, however, is not the only successful color scheme. Greens, Purples, Browns, Reds can also appropriately set a mood.
In this article, we feature 50 monochromatic website designs, categorized based on the predominant color that they use.
50 Monochromatic Website Designs | Webdesigner Depot.
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Illustrator is the application you use to make objects for Photoshop and Flash. As a vector-based drawing application, Illustrator is a powerful tool for creating graphical objects, but it can be a bit confusing at the beginning – especially if you’ve never created vector graphics before.
In this 5-hour tutorial by seasoned technical author Kelly Murdock, you’ll learn valuable tricks for working with vector art. Skills demonstrated in this Illustrator CS4 tutorial include how to use Illustrator’s tools to draw objects and edit vector paths, grouping and organizing objects on layers, and working with Type to create text along paths and shapes. You’ll also learn important tips for anti-aliasing vector graphics, working with color and gradients, and transforming objects to make intricate works of art.
This is a comprehensive tutorial, but you don’t need to watch every video. Use the detailed menu structure and keyword search function to quickly find topics of interest. For a full list of this Illustrator tutorials topics, see the Table of below.
http://illusionstudio.wordpress.com/
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Setting Up Your Blog
When opening MarsEdit for the first time, you’ll need to set up your blog. It’s widely compatible with many different systems, including WordPress, Blogger, TypePad, Movable Type, LiveJournal, Drupal, and Vox. Depending on your system of choice, you may need to alter a setting in its administration panel to allow MarsEdit to interact with your blog – you’ll be notified if this is the case.
All the information you need to enter is the URL and Name of your blog:
http://mac.appstorm.net/reviews/marsedit-simple-desktop-blogging/
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This website collection explores designs that feature flowers of all kinds, from vector floral designs to images of actual flowers.
A great example of how designers take colour schemes and inspiration from nature and bring them to the digital world. Artists of all kinds have used nature as their inspiration dating back centuries, so it’s no surprise that digital artists do the same.
http://inspiredology.com/26-floral-websites-in-full-bloom/
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By Dainis Graveris • March 17, 2009
If You have been following to latest articles, I compiled 43 PSD to XHTML, CSS Tutorials article some time ago. This should be considered as next step to web development process. There are a lot of really professional and high quality XHTML, CSS templates available for free – if You are familiar with coding, You can learn many new techniques just by studying code. Those templates are free for charge, however don’t forget to check license from each one of them before using. Don’t forget that You don’t need to copy those layouts, play with css, images to get complete fresh look. Here I represent to You the first part of free templates – every template is hand-picked, I picked only those templates I thought were interesting in code or really exceptional according to standard layouts.
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