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DESCRIPTION

ColorSchemer Studio is a professional color-matching application that will help you build beautiful color schemes quickly and easily.

  • Work with RGB and CMYK colors in a color-managed environment
  • Create and save color palettes
  • Identify color harmonies
  • Access over 1 million pre-made color schemes with COLOURlovers integration
  • Pull unique palettes from photos or images
  • Transform a single color into a complete color scheme
  • Build custom LiveScheme formulas
  • Mix colors and create gradient blends
  • Find similar or related colors
  • Preview colors on a variety of layouts
  • Analyze contrast, readability, and accessibility
  • View colors through colorblind eyes
  • Grab colors from anywhere on your screen
  • Print your color schemes
  • Import colors from websites or swatch files
  • Export colors to many popular apps and formats
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WHAT'S NEW

Version 2.0:

  • Work with RGB and CMYK colors in a color-managed environment
  • Access over 1 million pre-made color schemes with COLOURlovers integration
  • Transform a single color into a complete color scheme
  • Build custom LiveScheme formulas
  • Find similar or related colors
  • Preview colors on a variety of layouts
  • Analyze contrast, readability, and accessibility
  • New import/export formats
  • Organize sets of colors into Color Groups
  • Drop colors from the app right into your HTML
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.5 or later.

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SCREENSHOT

Developer:ColorSchemer
Downloads:13,813
  - Version d/l:471
Multimedia & Design:Author Tools
License:Shareware
Date:02 Dec 2009
Platform:PPC/Intel
Price:$49.99
RATING
***½.

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Color Schemer Studio User Reviews (13 posts)Write A Review
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Dec 2 2009

HANDYCAM58  I normally do not quibble on price with small devs, but I agree with the other commenters, $50 for this is insane. It's a good app, but for what it does $15-20 would be more reasonable.  
(Version 2.0)

praisebury
+2
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Dec 2 2009
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GRYPHONENT  Too expensive. I’m sorry. A feasible price point would be $19.99 or 14.99. Everything else cannot be justified.  
(Version 2.0)

praisebury
+1
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Mar 12 2008

SCHMELDING  Great app., but the price point is too high. Maybe $19.99 is more reasonable for what it does, IMHO.  
(Version 1.5.5)

praisebury
+7
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Nov 25 2007

MICHAEL CEO  This is great application that excels in ease of use. I found it indispensable when designing websites, flyers, or any diagram that involves color.

A very nice bonus feature is the photo schemer -- having Color Schemer find a color scheme for you from a photo.  
(Version 1.5.3)

praisebury
+2
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Jun 19 2007

OL_OL  Great App ! I wish it had the ability to add to your favorites color list all "suggested colors" at once, rather than dargging them there individually.  
(Version 1.5.2)

praisebury
+1
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Jun 19 2007

SIRTIGRIS  Lacks a CMYK converter. Definitly too expensive for only an RGB descprition. Could have been useful, as the interface is really smart.  
(Version 1.5.2)

praisebury
+2
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Jul 24 2006

FLOPKA  Price is prohibitive, considering there are so many free web-based utilities of this type.  
(Version 1.5.2)

praisebury
+1
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May 2 2006

ERRORR  The Photoschemer expects you to drag and drop as the only way to load a photo, but the drop window hides itself when the app is in background, making it a unnecessary hide and seek experience should you wish to drop a photo from the finder.  
(Version 1.5)

praisebury
+1
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Jun 19 2007

MILLCA  Having trouble dragging and dropping a photo? Try this trick:

Select the photo you desire to drop in with your mouse and while still holding down the mouse button as you drag it, click command-tab which will bring up all of your open applications. Keep hitting tab until Color Schemer Studio is highlighted. This will make the Color Schemer Studio come to forefront so you can drop the photo onto it. May take some practice to get used to this but once you know this trick, it will help in a LOT of different situations.  
(Version 1.5.2)

praisebury
+1

Mar 15 2006

NUTTDAN  An amazingly wonderful program rendered worthless and useless by its prohibitively expensive cost. Definitely not worth $50. A shame, really, because this is an app that I would normally buy in a heartbeat if it weere reasonably priced.   
(Version 1.5)

praisebury
+3
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Mar 15 2006
****½

JBLAKEH900  I concur the price is a little steep, but I love this program.

Any busy designer will appreciate and benefit from seeing quick color palettes based on a photo or existing logo color - or simply experimenting and testing different color theories - something most creative suites don't bother with at all.

In response to other comments... the UI may not be 100% Mac compliant (neither are most of Apple's own apps), but the UI does not get in the way of using this program - it is very intuitive. Similarly, whatever programming tools were used to build the program don't effect it's performance negatively...  
(Version 1.5)

praisebury
+1
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Mar 15 2006

COLOR SCHEMER  Hi jblakeh900,

This latest v1.5 release was actually completely rewritten in Cocoa, so a lot of effort was put into making it as "Mac-compliant" as possible. Redeveloping the app in Cocoa also provided a number of other speed and performance boosts over the previous release.

Aaron Epstein

Color Schemer

www.colorschemer.com  
(Version 1.5)

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