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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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Need a color palette? Got an image? Try this generator

There are a lot of ways to come up with a color palette. You can search through collections of them on a site like Adobe Kuler, you can put them together from scratch, or you can borrow someone else's. What if you want something easy and unique? Try CSS Drive's Colors Palette Generator. It takes any image and creates a selection of palettes full of colors that are sure to work well together.

When you upload your image or enter an image URL, the generator will give you three sets of seven colors each. It offers light, medium and dark palettes, so you can choose the one that's best suited to your task. If you need more to work with, it also offers a full palette, containing 49 colors. When you find something you like, you can export the results as a css stylesheet or Photoshop swatches for convenient use in your projects.

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