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08/31/2007
Business Card Design on Natural Light Green and Cameleon Closeup
This business card is a play on one of nature fascinating and mysterious creatures the chameleon lizard. With eye sockets that can that can independently move in hundreds of different directions, they don’t miss a beat. In this presentation you have the control to choose from 6 background transparency colors and 10 logos. It is [...]
08/30/2007
Making Natural SageBrush Parchment Business Cards
This business card design includes using a favorite of mine in the Fine Parchment line. Parchment paper was made many years ago out of animal skins such as sheep and goat. It can be drawn on, painted on or printed on. It can also be imitated with high quality CMYK printing standards. All natural designs [...]

All About 3 Important Colors Voilet, Black and Turquoise

Turquoise is an opaque, blue-to-green precious stone

Turquoise is a esteemed mineral and is even the most worthful, non-transparent mineral in the jewelry trade. Turquoise has been mined for hundreds of years since before 6000 BC. by native Egyptians. Its history also includes beautiful ornamental creations by Native Americans and Persians. Its popularity is still quite powerful today. Despite the fact that crystals of any size are seldom found, some little crystals have been located in Virginia and a few other places. Most specimens are cryptocrystalline, meaning that the crystals may only be visualized under a microscope. The finest turquoise is derived from Iran but is equalled by some southwestern United States specimens. Turquoise is often imitated by "fakes", such as the mineral chrysocolla, and lower quality turquoise specimens are typically dyed or color stabilised with coatings of various resins.

Turquoise Precious Gems

Turquoise replicates the hue of the same-named precious gem. Europeans gave the mineral its term in the 1300's, because they imported turquoise through Turkey, although its root was probably Persia. Turquoise was likewise discovered in the USA continent, where the Navajo, Zuni and Hopi North American Red Indian handmade artefacts and jewellery, working with turquoise and silver.

What Does Turquoise Mean?

tur·quoise   Pronunciation Key  (tûrkwoiz, -koiz)

n.
  1. A blue to blue-green mineral of aluminum and copper, mainly CuAl6(PO4)4(OH)8·4H2O, prized as a gemstone in its polished blue form.
  2. A light to brilliant bluish green.
Source: www.dictionary.com

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Violet is the complementary color to yellow Violet Gem Ring

Violet is a inferior color and is the best friend of yellow. Violet is aquired from the Old French “violete” or “violette,” a plant or flower of the genus Viola, whose flower is of this color. Violet lies at one end of the visible spectrum, next to blue. Together with mauve and purple, violet distinguishes colourings ranging from red blues to bluish reds and as well violet-tinged cerise browns (Red Planet Mars violets).

What Does Violet Mean?

vi·o·let ( P ) Pronunciation Key (v-lt)n. Violet Floral Ornament Any of various low-growing herbs of the genus Viola, having short-spurred, irregular flowers that are characteristically purplish-blue but sometimes yellow or white.

Any of several similar plants, such as the African violet.

The hue of the short-wave end of the visible spectrum, evoked in the human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of approximately 380 to 420 nanometers; any of a group of colors, reddish-blue in hue, that may vary in lightness and saturation.
Source: www.dictionary.com

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What is Resolution

Resolution is the image quality measured in terms of how many pixels make up your image. It is commonly referred to as "ppi" (pixels per inch). Because your images are to be viewed on a screen, all web graphics should be no larger than 72 ppi. Anything higher has no improved effect, and only creates longer download times.

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Black is the absence of color...

From an artistic stand point, black and white contain no color.

A Definition of Black

“Black     Pronunciation Key  (blk),
  1. Being of the color black, producing or reflecting comparatively little light and having no predominant hue. Black Shoe
  2. Having little or no light: a black, moonless night.
  3. often Black
    1. Of or belonging to a racial group having brown to black skin, especially one of African origin: the Black population of South Africa.
    2. Of or belonging to an American ethnic group descended from African peoples having dark skin; African-American.
  4. Very dark in color: rich black soil; black, wavy hair.
  5. Soiled, as from soot; dirty: feet black from playing outdoors.
  6. Evil; wicked: the pirates' black deeds.
  7. Cheerless and depressing; gloomy: black thoughts.
  8. Being or characterized by morbid or grimly satiric humor: a black comedy.
  9. Marked by anger or sullenness: gave me a black look.
  10. Attended with disaster; calamitous: a black day; the stock market crash on Black Friday.
  11. Deserving of, indicating, or incurring censure or dishonor: “Man... has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands” Black on White(Rachel Carson).
  12. Wearing clothing of the darkest visual hue: the black knight.
  13. Served without milk or cream: black coffee.
  14. Appearing to emanate from a source other than the actual point of origin. Used chiefly of intelligence operations: black propaganda; black radio transmissions.
  15. Disclosed, for reasons of security, only to an extremely limited number of authorized persons; very highly classified: black programs in the Defense Department; the Pentagon's black budget.
  16. Chiefly British. Boycotted as part of a labor union action.
    Source: dictionary.com


    Overpowering Black

    When mixing colours be careful, black is the strongest color.
  17. Respect black
    Even though black is not viewed a colouring black on white is the greatest contrast in the visual color spectrum.

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Business Card Designs Using the Color Black