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DESCRIPTION
ColorSchemer Studio is a professional color matching solution for anyone from hobbyists to advanced professionals.
Use it to: - work with a dynamic visual color wheel
- instantly explore color harmonies and relationships
- access over 2,500 pre-made color schemes, or share your own, in the Color Schemer Gallery
- preview color schemes on the built-in web page QuickPreview
- even let the app intelligently suggest color schemes for you
ColorSchemer Studio also features a number of built-in tools that make it easy to create great-looking color schemes:
- screen color picker to pick colors from anywhere on your screen
- unique PhotoSchemer tool to help build color schemes from pictures and images
- Color Scheme Analyzer to find the best text/background color combinations
- Color Mixer to blend colors or create gradients
- Export Wizard to export color schemes to your favorite graphics and web design applications
- Import Wizard to import colors from a number of sources, including web pages on the Internet
- print support to print your schemes
- color blindness simulation to simulate what your colors will look like to persons with color deficient vision
WHAT'S NEW
Version 1.6: - NEW - Color Blindness Simulation
See what your color schemes will look like to users with any one of 8 different types of color deficient vision.
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NEW - Convert to nearest WebSafe or WebSmart color
Convert colors to their nearest WebSafe or WebSmart palette match at the click of a button.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
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| Color Schemer Studio User Reviews (11 posts) | Write A Review |
 | 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) | |
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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) | |
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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) | |
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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) | |
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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) | |
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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) | |
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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) | |
 | 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) | |
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 | Mar 15 2006 |
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) | |
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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. www.colorschemer.com (Version 1.5) | |
 | Nov 1 2004 |
BRADY J. FREY Beautiful, simple color studio that is easy to use and control -- I recommend it for any designer who's having a nice episode of 'Designer block'. My only gripe? The hefty price tack doesn't justify the purchase with so little features... especially in a program that only compliments other programs, not necessarily a must-have utility. (Version 1.0) | |
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 | Sep 21 2004 |
BRYAN Overall, good in concept...but lacking in implementation. The GUI needs some work, but kudos for trying to at least make this look like a real Mac app (even though it's obvious that it was developed in RealBasic). Try making the toolbar more Mac compliant. Same story with all of the color wells...when you click them, the Color Picker should appear. Get rid of the palette on the bottom in the middle (use the Color Picker instead). I don't quite understand why the Analyzer isn't a part of the Suggested Colors. Also, if the Color Picker was used, it by nature allows the user to save their colors and use them in other apps. Oh, and the cost of this and Color Consultant Pro should be half of what they are, IMHO. (Actually, I'd value this at about $10 since it's not close to being Apple HIG compliant.) (Version 1.0) | |
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