How to Choose the Perfect Colours for Your Design - Part 1

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In the last post I talked about how to balance the position of images and texts. (click here to read). This post is going to be about the balance of colours and how to choose the perfect colours for your designs.

Choosing the right colours for your design is extremely important, as it can set the mood of your design and make it effective. But it can often be exhausting and difficult to choose the perfect colour combination, especially when there are millions of colours available today. So how can we choose quickly and efficiently?


Use What You Have

This tip has worked wonders for me ever since I learned about it. So what’s it all about? It’s simple. Always use colours from the images you use for your design. For example, you want to use this picture of the tulips for your design.

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All you need to do is Filter-Blur-Pixelize (I use GIMP, which is free to download. It’s still possible if you use other programs) the photo so that there are less colours.

Then just choose some colours (preferably the ones occurring the most) from the photo and you’re done! An advantage of this is that you’ll always have colours that match your photo and consequently, your design!

The next part will deal with creating a successful colour palette.