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Using Adobe Kuler

Adobe has a great free tool to help you design the color scheme for your web site. Adobe Kuler (pronounced like “cooler”) can be found at http://kuler.adobe.com. If you have an Adobe ID sign it with that to download and share color schemes. You can also sign up (free) even if you do not have an Adobe ID. You do not have to sign up unless you want to save or download your color schemes.

There are three ways to choose a color scheme:

  1. Pick one of the ones already developed by other Kuler users
  2. Create a new one using the color wheel
  3. Create a new one based upon an image (one you upload or select from Flickr)

Let’s look at each of these three and how you would use them for your web site. Continue reading

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