Colorful Contributions – A Rainbow of Helpful Tools

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Here are a few "cool tools" I use when working with color and images on web sites (I know, what’s a Conversation Conductor doing working on web sites…that’s another post). Hope you find these as valuable as I do:

  • Color Blender: Just found this the other day, but I’m already hooked. Choose a color and get a 6-color matching palette (a "blend"). You can modify the blend with different variations
  • HTML Color Converter: I use this almost as much as a coffee cup. I often get stuff delivered with RGB colors and need to convert them.
  • Color Palette Generator: Upload a photo and get a color palette matching the image.
  • Forget Photoshop: 15 Online Graphics Generators: The folks at Mashable list some great tools for buttons and backgrounds

Are there some I’ve missed?  Share them in the comments or on your blog.

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  • http://techbrew.net Mark Woodman

    Mike,
    ColorZilla (http://www.iosart.com/firefox/colorzilla/) is an indispensable tool in my webkit. It gives you a color picker from the FireFox status bar, but more useful is the eyedropper tool that works on anything you’re viewing in the browser.
    It’s especially handy when trying to figure out the colors used in a graphic made by somebody else. (Like a client logo.)
    - Mark

  • http://simonpayn.typepad.com/simon_payns_blog/2007/09/how-to-edit-pic.html Simon Payn’s Effective Customer Newsletters

    How to edit pictures for your newsletter

    Photos are perhaps the hardest part of a newsletter to get right. If you don’t edit them properly, there’s a danger they will print poorly, which will harm the overall quality of your newsletter. The most common problems are using

  • http://brainbasedbiz.blogspot.com Robyn

    I found some cool tools, which are posted on my site. One is Google TouchGraph, which helps you see your connections in Web 2.0 on Google, the Amazon TouchGraph and facebook TouchGraph.
    Think you’d enjoy these, Mike!

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