A lot of peopl find it hard in choosing colors (colours) to start designing their own forum theme/skin/template *whatever you guys call it these days*. One of the best way to do it is to find pictures that relates to your site. To do so find some pictures on flickr and then you can start picking some colors out of that 1 image to help make a color strip for you to use.

Here is one that I choose for a site about teddies, kids toys or one about children’s. But let just say its for a site that sells teddies. So I went on Flickr and search teddies and pick the first one that I saw.

Now that we have a picture that relates to our site we can now start picking colors out of it. I am going to use my usual image editor to pick colors out of it. Be sure that we take quite a fierce amount of colors to our pallete to build out color strip.

Below is what I got from picking colors that I thought defined the shape of the parts of the teddy bear and just the ones that stood out from my perspective.

And from there I would just add some more colors to it if I wanted to and tweak it here and there to make it suitable for display. Now with the colors sorted you would need to play around with these colors to see which one you would prefer to use as text, content, or background. Remember that you will need to make the page attractive and readable with the colors you chose.