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People are physically, psychologically, and socially influenced by color. Color has been found to have connections to health and it can help set the mood through which your designs are seen. << how color and contrast are beneficial to design.

An site that discusses all of the importance of color when using it in design. I found this to be quite helpful because it goes more in depth about the symbolism and the science of how color has been used.

This is great information on the topic of color vision and how the eyes and brain work to allow us to perceive color.

This website explains more about value and contrast. It gives several examples of value and the differences between color. I really like the portion where it gives an image of the gradual change of colors when using values. It helped me better engage my learning by looking at different examples.

This website explains more about value and contrast. It gives several examples of value and the differences between color. I really like the portion where it gives an image of the gradual change of colors when using values. It helped me better engage my learning by looking at different examples.

I thought this video was interesting because it shows how to use the color wheel. I didn't know that you should put yellow on top of the color wheel. I thought that was cool.

How to properly use light and color for contrast. 

This page contains three basic guidelines for making effective color choices that work for nearly everyone. << In order to understand contrast, you've gotta understand how it works, right! 

This is the wikipedia page to give a little bit more detail about web-safe colors

This is a website with examples of what people with normal vision see versus people with colorblindness. I thought it was interesting based on our color readings since there was no mention of it there.

This website shows 18 different examples of websites that effectively use emphasis to make the color green pop out. This is done for stylistic and symbolic reasons for each of these various websites. I especially liked this because green happens to be my favorite color.

This quick video gives a very good explanation of how additive and subtractive color systems work. It provides a great example of both of them in action.

This website gives a phenominal overview and summary of what value is in design and what it can do. There are also deisgn theories explained, along with helpful definitions within value and color.

This photograph is an example of using color to provide emphasis, that is only the tiger is left with color in the image to allow the audience to focus on the tiger.

This video goes into how to use contrast! It was very informational (may take awhile to download)

CONTRAST-One thing I learned from this site is that colors on the opposite sides of the color wheel create the best contrast

Shows photo examples of contrast. 

pretty decent introduction to contrast.  Has many different examples and goes through size, shape, color, and position.

A website that can be seen as the home depot for web design as it has everything web design related.

Breaks down contrast types size, color, etc

Here is another photoshop tutorial. I thought this was interesting how this person used color with this editing program.

This You Tube video is all about color balance. The person in the video took a photo that was already balanced and created different variations of the same photo.

This page is about 25 different examples of emphasis

25 Examples of Emphasis Applied in Web Design

This website provides several examples of how emphasis can be used in web design. It shows how proportion, contrast and physical relationship can be added to create this sense of emphasis. The easiest method of creating emphasis seems to be contrast. It is very easy to create contrast by simply using different, contrasting colors.

This ad uses flow because the entire ad flows from left to the right with the help of the colorful pot which draws your eye to the phrase.