One or Two Colors Can Be More

by Granny's Mettle

Colors make any object interesting and exciting. To make your designs and media material stand out, it takes one color, or two, or even three extra dashes. Hence, spot color design can be as rewarding as any process design.

Here is an adaptation of money saving design ideas to make colors look more, as well as other ideas to make your design stand out:

Overprinting colors can create a third interesting color. Printing one color over another creates a third color. Remember the fundamentals of color when we were still in kindergarten? To create green, combine yellow and blue; for violet, its red and blue; and for orange, red and yellow, and so on and so forth. Integrate this concept with a good knowledge of how to make your colors work for you and a good relationship with a printer, will definitely give you something that will attract even the most choosy clients.

Paper color can be your third color. Nowadays, there’s wide range of interesting and arresting papers to choose from. There are papers with solid colors that are very attractive. There are those that have flowers or a combination of different papers in them. Whatever it is, a kind of paper that differs from your colors in the design would make a world of difference in the final outcome.

A variety of tints will create an illusion of many colors. To create many colors from two colors, experiment with a variety of tints. There are roughly ten tints of every color available to you. From 10% to 100%, all of them reflect a different shade from each other.

Experiment with duotones. Duotones are photos printed in two colors. One great idea is to create subtle effects from sepia tones for posterized looking pictures.

Reverse text from solid or tinted boxes. The disadvantage is that reverses are hard to read, so avoid using generously.

Rubber stamping for your next colors. With the popularity of scrapbooks, rubber stamps have flooded the market. Get very creative with rubber stamping. However, this process can be time consuming.

A laser foil can do wonders. Foil can be used in your laser printer to create different colors. You can create a master copy on your inkjet, copy it, and use the foil with a copier. Nevertheless, the process of applying the foil and running it through your printer can be very time consuming.

Stickers and/or colored or foil labels. Simple designs can be very attractive when you use stickers in gold foil of you could also print directly to the labels. Then stick them afterwards in your printed pieces.

Scissors with unusual edges can create simple die cuts that can serve an attractive design to your media.

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About The Author

Granny's Mettle is a 30-something, professional web content writer. She has created various web content on a diverse range of topics, which includes digital printing topics, medical news, as well as legal issues. Her articles are composed of reviews, suggestions, tips and more for the printing and designing industry.

Her thoughts on writing: "Writing gives me pleasure… pleasure and excitement that you have created something to share with others. And with the wide world of the Internet, it gives me great satisfaction that my articles reach more people in the quickest time you could imagine."

On her spare time, she loves to stay at home, reading books on just about any topic she fancies, cooking a great meal, and taking care of her husband and kids.

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