Chad Coleman

Design Color Scheme From A Photograph

As a designer I find inspiration for color schemes from all over. From architecture, nature, to paintings and photographs. I’ve driven by houses with a great color scheme and thought to myself “That would make a great color scheme for a website!”.

Using Photoshop’s Filter > Pixelate > Mosaic, we can grab a photograph and find a great scheme from it! Hover the below photos to see the scheme they produce at 65 cell size. Photographs with a wide array of colors will work best.

On The Doctrines of Grace

Ye may yourself ebb and flow, rise and fall, wax and wane; but your Lord is this day as he was yesterday; and it is your comfort that your salvation is not rolled upon wheels of your own making, neither have ye to do with a Christ of your own shaping. -Samuel Rutherford

jQuery Slide Toggle with Cookie

Here is a very handy write up and a demo page of how to create a slide toggle effect. The handiest part is the cookie it sets to remember the toggle state when you reload the page or move on.

22 Best Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials

22 links to Photoshop tutorials on how to make excellent text effects.

Portfolio Template Design

Lookin for a quick and dirty template for a personal portfolio site? John at ever-real posted a zip file containing a .PSD and several fonts used in the design. If you know how to cut XHTML, you might be interested in this freebie.