['Snorlax]

I always find colors being the most difficult part of making a desing. Is there a site where I can enter a color (HEX), and it will give me suitable colors? I use http://colorschemedesigner.com/ at the moment, but are there better ones?

['Snorlax]

Dude, check out Adobe Kuler: https://color.adobe.com/
You can either use the colour wheel and various settings (Analogous, Monochromatic etc.) to see which colours look good together and it'll give you the HEX codes for all of them. Or you can go to the "Explore" tab and check out sweet swatches with colours that have already been tried and tested.

Yeah I've used Adobe's service as well. Let's say I were to make a website, and I would have to #FFA500 - Which colors would match good?

['Snorlax]

What you could do, is make a new canvas (500x500), and for half of the box select the colour that you've got as the base colour (#FFA500 in your case) and then for the other half, just have a play around with the colours until you find one that fits.

Look here:
Spoiler (Click to View)

This maybe explains what I mean a little better.

What if I'm completely color blind and have no idea which colors look good together? How am I going to magically find two fitting colors? ;)

['Snorlax]

Use a colour wheel and learn some basic colour theory. A colour blind person can combine colours just fine if they take the time to learn the rules.

Here, have a read:
http://www.tigercolor.com/color-lab/colo...-intro.htm

There is no tool where I can enter a color, and then the site will say "these colors look good together"?

['Snorlax]

Dude, if you seriously want to learn what colours work well with each other and want to be able to apply that knowledge to create good designs then you won't be able to just slack off and have some website do it for you.
The site I linked to previously does, however, offer that function but I guess you were too lazy to spend two minutes on the site to find it. Regardless, even with color.adobe.com you at least need to know if you want to use a triad, monochromatic, analogous or some other colour scheme.

Why are you so reluctant to actually learn about something? You can't expect everything to be spoon fed to you. What's the point of trying to improve yourself if you're only looking to do so with minimal effort without actually learning anything? You might as well just have someone else do all of the graphical designing for you then, someone who was actually dedicated enough to learn the basics, practise them, apply them and become good enough to greatly exceed any level of skill you'll achieve with your current attitude.

Wow take a chill pill, dude. I ask a simple question and you go all bananas. I'm done here, lol. Thanks for the education.

[Aceman]

Great job on the help desk guys, keep it up.

[Aeonian.]

Officially a part of this as well now !
Feel free to ask us anything graphic design related.

[Baghead]

This belongs in the graphics section not services

[Baghead]

Acording to Factor8, this is where the thread should be and this is where it will remain.

Oh that's weird, help desks are pretty much always in the general graphics section and I've only ever seen this section used for free sigs and all that but alright

[Aeonian.]

Does decreasing ram usage increase efficiency of photoshop on larger documents, also it's fbn and not FBN

No this is actually the other way around.
You could try it out yourself actually. If you take a look at the bottom of your document, where your size information is displayed, you will be able to set that to show>efficiency. If this is not 100%, allocating more ram tot photoshop will increase the efficiency.
[Img]http://media.mediatemple.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/images/improve-photoshop-performance/memory-efficiency.png[/img]

Hope this helped

[+One]

This is very thoughtful of you guys, people do appreciate this service!

[Stu-Pot]

I think you aren't Specialists, still, keep up the work!

[Aeonian.]

I think you aren't Specialists, still, keep up the work!

What would be the reason for you to think we are not specialists? Is there anything you feel we need to improve?

[Aeonian.]

Could you guys help me improving a picture that I have made?

Thanks, Very nice thread!

What kind of improvement are you looking for ? Could you elaborate?
Show us the picture, the things you don't like, and the things you want improved.

[Aeonian.]

How to deal with pain-in-the-ass clients ?
How to create a price for service ? On what basis we create price for a service we're offering? I'm 18 and Would really like to keep working as Graphic Designer in future.

I have pretty big experience with working in design, but only the past 1-2 years I've been working with clients and had to make decisions about pricing... before that I would compete on sites like 99designs, and put graphics on GraphicRiver.

Basically your pricing should be based on a couple of things:

• Audience you're trying to reach
  


• Duration of the production process
  


• Difficulty of the process
  


• Knowledge required
  


• Supply and Demand
  

I'll give you an example. For instance, a thread design, will go here on HF for anywhere between $5 and $20. If you think you can satisfy highly paying premium customers ( meaning you need to create really High Quality Thread Designs), you can easily up your price up to $20.
However, if you apply the same concept to web design, you can easily ask like $150 for that quality, given the fact that the duration, difficulty and knowledge is a lot higher, whereas the Supply is a lot lower.

For pain-in-the-ass customers, most users her on HF will use the following scheme:

Customer contacts Designer -> Customer & Designer agree to a fixed price -> Customer pays half upfront -> Design process -> Feedback -> Payment of other half.

With this scheme customers will be less likely to be a dick to you given the fact that they've already paid you a certain amount.

Hope this helped.