Confession: I am addicted to changing colors, styles, themes, and fonts on stuff. Powerpoints are my favorite things ever, purely because it promotes playing with the appearance of your product.
For fellow amateur designers, I wanted to tell you about the amazing thing that is Adobe’s site ‘Kuler.” The professionals already know about it, because it is pretty much the best-thing-since-sliced-bread invention of web designing.
The way it works is you pick a base color you particularly are interested in, and it gives you at least four other colors that it would go with. For example, you can chose from “monochrome” and it gives you varieties of the same shade. Ask for “complementary,” it pulls from opposite sides of the color wheel to make your swatch. Here is an example from the “pink” I had chosen as my base (“cf135e”)
Analogous
Monochrome
Triad
Complementary
Compound
Shades
There are even a ton of sample swatches for you to start with or choose from!
You don’t even have to know your base color at the beginning; just drag the circles around the color wheel until you find a color. The nice part about this is that it gives you both the HEX code (#000000) and the RGB code. I’m just upset that WordPress.com doesn’t let you use the codes anymore, instead you are limited to the first color samples. But, it still works with Tumblr! 🙂
Deceptively Blonde 
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