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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.
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
