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ColoRotate: 3D color palette creator and CS4 plugin
There are a lot of different interfaces for creating and using color palettes, but ColoRotate may be the one with the coolest visuals. It plots your colors on a 3D diamond as you blend, tint and change hues to form a palette. More experienced designers may not find it useful, and may prefer something more straightforward. Beginners, on the other hand, might dig how easily you can make a decent palette with this tool.There's also an entire "learn about color" section of the site, giving a good overview of the theory and science behind color and color combinations. Adobe CS4 users will be interested to know that a ColoRotate plugin is coming in the fall, and it will allow you to use ColoRotate as your color picker in Creative Suite apps. It will also sync with your saved palettes on the ColoRotate site, but that's slated to cost you $2.50/month.
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Dach said 12:41PM on 5-15-2009
Do they really expect people will pay a monthly fee for a program that performs such a trivial function? They really need to rethink their pricing structure on this one. Actually, it's even sadder if their pricing structure succeeds.
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Max said 1:06PM on 5-15-2009
The site doesn't recognize that I have Flash installed, so it refuses to let me download the plug in.
Way to sell us, guys...
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Chris said 1:40PM on 5-15-2009
How is this different from Adobe's own Kuler? Seems pretty similar to me, and all CS4 programs already support it.
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