How To Determine A Color

Discussion in 'Photoshop' started by Chicago, Oct 30, 2006.

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    Ok,

    So my friend made me a logo for my site that I have yet to launch. The logo has the name of the site but behind it is like a tracing of the same word in another color. How can I figure out what exact color it is? I'd like to use that same color to co-ordinate with the rest of the site links but am having troubled determining it. My friend is out of town for the week and I am pretty much done with everything else I need to do before I go live with it. Sorry I am a complete novice when it comes to this. I do have photoshop on my computer but haven't used it much/if at all.

    Thanks in advance.

    Chicago
     
    Chicago, Oct 30, 2006 IP
  2. T0PS3O

    T0PS3O Feel Good PLC

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    There's a FireFox extension with a color picker tool in it. Or open the colour in your favourite photo editor and point at the colour yuo want with the pick tool.
     
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  3. Chicago

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    Thank you. Yeah I just went into Nvu and worked on some color schemes that are similiar. I guess I do have one more question for the masses. The guy that designed my logo made it fairly big and for me to scale it down to 420x90 it seems to lose a lot of its qualities. Is there anyone or anything I can do to make sure that this banner looks good in those dimensions?

    Chicago
     
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    Ask the guy whether he has the vector version of it. Scaling vector graphics up or down won't cause any loss.
     
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    If the image he gave you was in jpg it will loose quality and sharpness when resized. Can i take a look at your file ? I can solve the problem then if you dont mind.
     
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