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First off, design is not anything you learn by reading a book or using a program that gives you a color palette. Like coding, design is something based on years of experience.
Secondly, even if you do the design yourself, you will still have to account for that part. Or do you want to give away 50% of your job for free?
My advise: find someone to work with and stick to the things you do well. Everybody has his/her strengths and weaknesses. -
Agreeing with @Intronout.
As for colour palletes, just google. E.g. there's Adobe color wheel https://color.adobe.com/pl/create/...
But if you know next to nothing about design and colour theory, then it won't help much.
But I once followed on tumblr an artist who was colourblind - red-green kind, no one knew until he probed a colour and used it without checking, thinking it was green - it was red. The pic looked as if the character was standing in blood (lighter grass, without shadow, was green, only this one shade of "green" was wrong).
And my friend is slightly colourblind, not recognising the shades of red (red, maroon, brown - it's basically all the same for him). But he isn't going into any design or graphical stuff, only backend.
How freelancing negotiations work...
This was my first freelancer project. Just dropped out of school, i think i was 17. No money, no proper hardwa...
With my work putting more and more things on my plate that I don't want to work on and refusing to increase my pay proportionately I'm thinking about going freelance. My biggest argument against is this that I'm terrible with design.
What design tools to you guys use for mocking up a website? I use Windows and Linux for my work so Mac only apps aren't going to help.
I also struggle with colors. I've never been officially diagnosed as color blind, but I've been told I'm wrong about colors enough to know there's something going on there. Are there any good tools out there that can help select colors that go well together? I'm thinking if a company has a red they use for everything, I put that in and the tool gives me a few color pallettes to work with.
I've also thought about just finding a designer to work with, but then I have to budget for this person as well which means I'd have to take on even more clients. I want to improve my design abilities so I can do more myself.
Any help appreciated guys.
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