Colourlovers: Create/Share color trends and palettes with other designers

31 May, 2010, by appsheriff || Topics: Community, Web Apps

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Colourlovers is a global community for all kinds of designers and artists who visit the site to get inspiration, ideas and opinion for both their professional as well as personal projects. COLOURlovers’ dedicated members create colors, palettes and patterns to cultivate their enduring love affair with color. These members can join color-inspired groups and forums and share the love by commenting on their preferred creations. The COLOURlovers blog fuels the world’s online conversation of color with its interesting posts on color trends and news, including interviews.

Some facts about www.colourlovers.com include, currently 349,250 members have created about 2,710,470 Colors, 1,192,901 Palettes and 885,581 Patterns.

ColorSchemer Studio 2 for Mac

The latest release of ColorSchemer Studio 2 for Mac is the first indication at what the future holds for the integration of the 1,000,000 COLOURlovers palettes directly reachable via the software gallery browser. Very soon a user will not just be able to look through palettes from COLOURlovers, they’ll be capable to save palettes right to the site from their desktop.

ColorSchemer Studio 2 for Mac OS X

ColorSchemer Studio 2 is a professional color-matching application for Mac that will help a user build beautiful color schemes promptly and without difficulty.

Utilize ColorSchemer Studio to recognize color harmonies for the web (RGB) or print (CMYK), create palettes from photos, explore over a million existing color schemes, mix colors, create gradient blends, and a lot more!

ColorSchemer Studio 2 takes color matching and management to a fresh level with a number of sophisticated latest features and tools, including:

CMYK Support

Amongst the most common feature requests the website receives is for adding CMYK support, and at present ColorSchemer Studio 2 has it!

Not just that, but this latest release goes even beyond, by color-managing both RGB and CMYK colors, so a user can specify color profiles, just similar to Photoshop and other pro graphics applications to ensure whether the colors look exactly as anticipated.

Color Management/Color Profile Support

ColorSchemer Studio 2 at the moment manages all displayed colors. A user can now work with particular color profiles to make sure that the color-critical work comes out correct the first time, whether it’s for the web or print.

COLOURlovers Integration


With Colourlovers.com users can get a chance to connect to the COLOURlovers community to browse, search, and download more than a million color palettes directly from the program.

LiveSchemes

The latest LiveSchemes tools help a user to visually form color harmony relationships as simply as dragging colors about the color wheel.

Form custom LiveScheme formulas based on color theory, or your own individual creativity. The users can also reverse-engineer and color-shift existing color schemes with just a simple drag & drop.

Browse your saved LiveSchemes to apply custom color theory relationships to any color to build a ready-to-use color scheme.

QuickPreview Layout Templates

ColorSchemer Studio 2 currently comes with 13 diverse QuickPreview layout templates that you can use to try out with color scheme ideas in a range of different settings, together with website, blog, print and pattern layouts.

Color Variations

Apply the latest Variations palette to come across colors that are related or similar to any initial base color.

Color Groups

Sort out the colors into groups or folders within your Favorite Colors while building your color schemes.

ColorSchemer Studio 2 in addition adds a group of other enhancements to provide users further control over the colors:

Latest ways to choose colors: Make use of the latest spectrum picker, or choose amongst the included color libraries.

Latest import/export formats: Including Adobe Swatch Exchange (ASE), PNG, and XML formats.

Superior Contrast Analyzer: Test text and background color combinations for adequate contrast and readability, based on W3C, WCAG, or HP accessibility recommendations.

Drag-color-to-text: Drag a color from ColorSchemer Studio and drop it exactly into your HTML and it will automatically be converted into a hex value in the code.

Enhanced UI: Most tool windows have been united into an easier-to-manage single-window interface.

Licenses/Upgrades

The price rates of ColorSchemer Studio 2 remain $49.99 per license, and discounted upgrade licenses are too available for registered users of ColorSchemer Studio v1.x for $29.99.

COLOURLovers believes that these applications are not just products for selling, but a product which would help the website to grow together with its users. Always the website has taken special initiatives to work with quality products and never compromises on the wonderful and enthusiastic community the website has currently. The integration of ColorSchemer is brand new, so both are currently working together to integrate the best services.

Design your personal Seamless Pattern.

Seamless Studio makes it trouble-free to design a seamless pattern. By means of easy editing tools users can resize, rotate and add shapes, lines and text to the canvas and it tiles automatically. The users can save the pattern template and observe how the world colors it in.

Color a Seamless Pattern

Also users can name a Color, Create a Palette, and Design a Pattern… Website has several tools to assist you come across and share color inspiration.

PHOTOCOPA : Use your Photos as Color Palettes

PHOTOCOPA is the finest means to make a photo inspired color palette. One has to just load up their own photo from anywhere on the web and add it to the gallery for others to utilize as inspiration or even keep it confidential for only your use. User can also search for great photos on Flickr.

COPASO: Color Palette Software

COPASO is a highly developed color palette tool that helps to create the ideal color palette. If the user is finding COPASO a bit too rich for the color creating tastes, you can always make use of website’s basic color palette tool.

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