Peep in my mind

It can be very challenging trying to pick the right color template for a web site.  Especially if you’re dealing with colors you don’t typically use.   But don’t threat! Kuler is too the rescue! Kuler is a product created by Adobe.  It lets users generate their own color combination by choosing the following options:

• Analogous
• Monochromatic
• Triad
• Complementary
• Compound
• Shades
• Custom

After the user has generated their color theme the user can save it to a place called “Mykuler”. Users can also save color themes as Adobe Swatch Exchange files (.ASE) where users can import and use in Adobe Creative Suite.  The online application is very easy to use so definitely give Kuler a try.

Generally designers have an excellent eye for detail and a skill to differentiate between the slightest color values.  Especially now with 32bit colors being able to be displayed on our monitors the color patellae seems to be endless.  Unfortunately an estimated 9 to 13 percent of males and under one percent of female population have some form of color blindness.

Here are some color blindness definitions found on the web:

• Protanopia means difficulties to distinguish between blue and green colors and also between red and green colors, or no sensitivity to red.
• Deuteranopia is blindness to green.
• Tritanopia is blindness to blue-yellow.

Designers who ignore color blindness can lose or confuse about 10 percent of potential viewers. To avoid this problem Vischeck has a nice tool that will load your website, and display how people with these symptoms will view your site.  From there you can see how clearly your sites is readable and adjust your site.

This is awsome the guys at Warhammerblogs.com are giving out a copy of Warhammer Online collector edition.  What you have to do is simple just go to warhammerblogs.com/contest and post your favorite Warhammer quote on the comment section of that page.

The winner will be picked randomly and the contest ends August 8 12:00pm EST so hurry and post your comments today!

I get this question all that time, is it okay to use rapid surfaces for my final tooling? Well it really depends on what the object is. But there a few there is a few guide lines to follow if you do plan on rapid surfacing your data for tooling.

Do you plan to make any changes with this data? If so how big are your changes going to be? Are you just adding or subtracting parts to the data? If so feel free to rapid surface it adding/subtracting stuff to rapid surfaces are easy. But if you plan to make changes like editing a fillet size or pushing and pulling surfaces I suggest you grab your trusty surfacing/CAD app and spend your time slowly modeling it.

Budget! Now that can a huge factor here especially for start ups, rapid surfacing can be super cost effective when it comes to creating a CAD model for manufacturing. Let’s use a golf club head for example. It would probably take weeks for a CAD modeler to generate an accurate model of such a complex object, but with rapid surfacing it could easily be done in a few hours with the accuracy of +/- 0.01. As long as you’re original data is good you’re good.

Now too quiet down the doubters in the surfacing world telling you that these surfaces are not good enough to manufacture with, and you will get a bad result out of it. That can be true if you had bad data to begin with. I’ve been doing for years which might not mean much, but if Ford can use rapid surface to rebuild tools why can’t you? Just make sure the data you’re surfacing from looks close to perfect compared to the original. If your object is since and smooth make sure your data looks nice and smooth, or if your data is covered with texture like a tree bark make sure your data should looks just like it and you will be okay. A good way to sum it up rapid surfaces is “What you see is what you get!”

An animated Diablo 3 sony ericsson cell phone theme .
Feel free to post it anywhere but please put a link back to “http://peepinmymind.com/” Thanks!

Theme for Sony Ericsson with screen of 176×220 (z610,k610,618,z710,W710)

Theme for Sony Ericsson with screen of 240×320 (k800, W850, k790)

Warhammer Online is currently having a Squig contest. The contest is pretty simple go download Spore Creature Creator and make your own version of a Squig. Once that is done post it on youtube and submit your entry to war-contests@ea.com. Oh make sure u signed up on warhammer online. Contest ends July 14, 2008.

Here is my Squig entry for warhammer online. I wanted to do a bit more with it but since the free version is very limited this is the best I can do for now. Good luck to everyone who is entering! and here is a link to the video of my Squig.

An animated theme with Cloud from Final Fantasy Advent Children.
Feel free to post it anywhere but please put a link back to “http://peepinmymind.com/” Thanks!

For Sony Ericsson with screen of 176×220 (z610,k610,618,z710,W710)

For Sony Ericsson with screen of 240×320 (k800, W850, k790)

So a friend of mine brought over a bottle of Hpnotiq last night with some warm 7up. Now usually I would be jumping for joy but the Hpnotiq was warm, and I had no ice. But luckily I had some Freezies! So we grabbed some blue and white freezies and mixed it in our drink! and OMG was it ever good! So without further adieu here is my Hpnotiq Freeze recipe.

3 - 4 oz of warm Hpnotiq.

2 -3 Small Blue or White Freezies.

Take the Hpnotiq and Freezies dump them in your shaker and shake it till the Freezie has melted. If you don’t have a shaker just dump it in the glass and twirl the Freezies in the glass. Cheers

Picking the right colors for web design can be hard at times. I know I’ve ran in to those days where any color I pick just don’t work with each other. Or I just ran out of inspiration and really didn’t feel like creating another blue or black themed web site. So I go online like most people and start searching the web for great ideas.

As I go through zillions of site with titles like ” Top site for color inspiration” or ” Picking colors the award wining way” I’ve noticed one thing they all use the same colors “blue, white, black” (yes yes black and white is not a color” but I’m sure you get the point). Any hoot enough of my ramblings and time for the meat.

So here my tip on trying to use different colors. Try using the color explore from Behr, Benjamin Moor, or whatever paint matching application you can find online and start picking some colors. What I like about these applications is that they pick some nice accent colors where you can start working with to generate your overall web theme. Another bonus is that the colors that are generated are nice and soft and easy on the eyes.

Well I hope you all give this a try. With some minor tweaks and adjustment you’ve got a great start on your next web site that is not blue.

I thought I would share with you all one of the best drinks in the world.

1oz Sambuca
1oz Kahlua
1oz Blue Curacao
1oz Bailey’s Irish Cream

1. Pour the Sambuca and Kahlua into martini glass.
2. Light the glass on fire, and start drinking it with a straw.
3. As the person is drinking it pour the Blue Curacao and Irish Cream together.
4. Drink it all till its gone Cheers!