I love Adobe’s Kuler extension (which helps you generate swatches ‘n’ such) but I never cared for how you can’t color-pick directly from it.
…so I made this simple palette generating PSD.
[Download Version 1, for a limited time, here.]
How it works : Fill the active layer with your foreground color and the grouped adjustment layers do the rest! Then just use it to color-pick from.
Mix in the complementary color with a low-flow brush, and the results are kinda nifty.
P.S. -- There's a stick in the above image, so that counts as my "s."
This is a cool idea, thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteI have actually been working on the development version of "Alchemy" (al.chemy.org) which includes a palette and palette generation/modification features.
I might look at including your color palette setup as a "harmonious color" selection preset group based on the current active color. The code is already there, just need to plug in the modification values :-)
You might find the development version of alchemy interesting... can import kuler/photoshop palettes, or automatically download/load a random colourlovers.com palette, perform random or specific modifications to the whole palette, etc.
unfortunately the only place to get the development builds(win/linux) is on my personal google drive (which seems awfully shady - i know), since the alchemy site was recently hacked and the forums/etc are still down.
this video shows some of the color features - back at an earlier stage.
vimeo video
alchemy development at google drive
That´s a neat tool. Just this week I have to build an entire swatch set in SAI...this would save some hours of work. Thks Paul.
ReplyDeleteCrowline -- I'd be honored to test out any Alchemy betas you might have a hand in developing. I'm trying to piece together the Windows version you posted, but I keep missing modules. // In any case, thanks for commenting!
ReplyDeleteSorry the build doesn't work on your machine. I have gotten some reports of failure launching on Windows 7 - 64 bit... but have had trouble getting a fix in, since I am currently the only one working on Alchemy and I mostly work under linux - and it works fine on my Win7 64-bit laptop.
ReplyDeleteIf want to try to work through it, email me any info about the crash, or the terminal output when launched from the command line - can maybe see whats wrong. Otherwise you can just give it a try again down the road and hopefully things will be sorted out.
Anyway, thanks for giving it a shot.
crowlinestudio@gmail.com
Pretty clever Paul. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeletevery nice Paul.. Thanks for sharing
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