When planning your color scheme, add colors that will go any existing materials you must match. How many colors will be needed to achieve the desired effects and sill look good? Choose web safe colors. What color is your logo, or do you have several color schemes for your logo? Do you want to add additional colors and special effects like transparency, 3-D appearances, and metallic objects, which look great on the web but might be too costly and difficult in print matter. What background color looks best with your logo? What color text goes best with that background color in a RGB screen environment, where light originates from behind the entire image area? Changing colors later may make you need to rework enitre layouts. On screen, light text looks great against a dark backrground, which is the opposite of print, where light text can blur on a dark backround. Contrasts and color relationships may no longer work when you change even one color.

Images that have been matted to go with one background color will have to be reprocessed to go with a new background color.

Gather all of your photos together. Do they need to be natural, and realisitic, with minimal editing, or should they be made to have a particular color cast and special effects to match each other and to fit a cetrain way into your website? What color background and graphics will go with your existing photos and logo? Perhaps some of your photos would make great background images. It is best to give your photos a consistent treatment. A great deal can be accomplished by making digital mockups of your webpage and colorizing all of the elements to make sure they will look good together on screen. However, if you do get in a bind, a good way
to add an unplanned for color is to simply use a shade of grey or a weaker tint of an exisitng color. If you plan ahead, you can have fun with color!