Color Scheme Designer & The Adobe Kuler

Hello all C² Members!

Check out some of these great online tools to help you with your designing and coloring skills.

The first one is the Adobe Kuler

“Discover Adobe® Kuler® — the web-hosted application for generating color themes that can inspire any project. No matter what you're creating, with Kuler you can experiment quickly with color variations and browse thousands of themes from the Kuler community.” - Adobe.com - About Kuler

The second is the Color Scheme Designer 3

With this version of Color Scheme Designer you are able to select from 6 traditional color schemes - Mono, Complementary, Triad, Tetrad, Analogic, and accented Analogic. It even has a randomize color option. With your cursor you can choose your color scheme by clicking on the color wheel on the left hand side. To the right of this, a window that shows the various hues within that scheme appears in rectangles separating each other. If you hover your cursor over them, the hex number (i.e. #FFFFFF) appears for your convenience.

This application also has some very helpful export options such as: HTML+CSS; XML; Text; ACO (Photoshop Palette); and GPL (GIMP Palette). There is even a ‘Colorblind’ feature where you can change to the appropriate scheme (there are 8 total) if you are colorblind. There are many other features but you’ll have to check out it and play around.

I hope these will be helpful in your creative endeavors!

- Lane Leazer

Adobe Max 2011

 

 Click to view the Adobe Max 2011 Conference keynote video

To see what Adobe has planned for the future with their software developments, check out this video;

http://tv.adobe.com/watch/max-2011-keynotes/creativity-unleashed/

This is a 1-hour long video. It is a recording of the annual Adobe Max Conference which was held this year in Los Angeles, CA. The presentation graphics themselves are amazing - especially in the opening sequence. If you don't have time to watch the entire video, be sure to at least watch the beginning.

If you are interested in following the Adobe Max conferences, click the following link;
http://max.adobe.com/

For anyone interested in graphic or web design, this overview shows where software and hardware is heading in the future.

For fine artists or anyone who plans to spend any time online with their own websites or in any other creative venture, this presentation may interest you too.

Enjoy!