When in the heat of a deadline and you’re expected to throw together a layout, you don’t really want to be bothered with opening up unnecessary programs that just might slow down the whole process…

Here’s a couple of ways you can avoid opening photoshop just to add a gradient or get a color for your CSS file.

  • A List Apart has a way to create a gradient of any color or size with a .png or two.
    (don’t worry, they have a way to get it to work for IE6)
    Super-Easy Blendy Backgrounds
  • For you OSX users out there, here’s a widget that will give you a quick and easy way of converting Hex values to RGB, CMYK or HSV.
    (or the other way around of course -don’t worry, it appears to offer a Windows alternative)ColourMod
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