Chad Von Lind » Website Designer, WordPress Programmer & Theme Developer – Chad Von Lind

Design Color Scheme From A Photograph

Chad Von Lind — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:31:43 +0000

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.

jQuery Slide Toggle with Cookie

Chad Von Lind — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:25:56 +0000

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

Chad Von Lind — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:26:09 +0000

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

Portfolio Template Design

Chad Von Lind — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:58:22 +0000

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.