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ColorSchemer Studio in the Mac App Store, and TUAW has free licenses!
ColorSchemer Studio, my favorite Mac app for designing color combinations and palettes, is now available on the Mac App Store. I've mentioned it a few times before, and we've had a few licenses to give away in the past. To celebrate the arrival in the Mac App Store, ColorSchemer has given us three more licenses to hand out. See the rules at the bottom of this post to enter in the drawing. That's not all, though. ColorSchemer Studio is normally $49.99, but starting today, there's a special sale price of US$9.99. That's a pretty huge savings, so even if you don't win a free license, it's a great time to pick up a copy. ColorSchemer offers an array of tools for putting together palettes using basic to advanced color theory, and you can preview palettes in different ratios to find the perfect balance. It also integrates directly with the COLOURLovers, allowing you to import your favorite color palettes from the social website. If you're not already using it, it's worth a look for designers of any ilk. Check it out and leave a comment for a chance to get a copy for free! Here are the rules and a link to the legal statement: Open to legal US residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia who are 18 and older. To enter leave a comment on this post. The comment must be left before Monday, March 28, 11:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time. You may enter only once. Three winners will be selected in a random drawing. Prize: A full license for ColorSchemer Studio. (US$49.99 value) Click Here for complete Official Rules. Good Luck!
ColorSchemer Touch is out, and we have five copies to give away
The designers and color lovers among you may be familiar with ColorSchemer, or at least recall it from our coverage of the 2.0 release. Well, great news: ColorSchemer Touch is available on the App Store for iPhone and iPod touch! We have five copies to give away, so be sure to enter for your chance at the end of the post. ColorSchemer Touch is designed to make color palette creation on your iPhone or iPod touch fast and simple. It offers four tools: a Color Wheel, LiveSchemes, PhotoSchemer and Spectrum. Color Wheel and Spectrum are what you'd expect, standard means of finding colors. LiveSchemes provides one of the coolest features of the desktop version; it allows you to set points on a spectrum wheel and link them together to see what the same combination of hues and saturations will do as you move them around the wheel. PhotoSchemer, which is also translated from the desktop version, allows you to pull colors from a photo or, in the case of the iPhone, a picture you take on the spot. It's great for saving palettes when you see them in real life. ColorSchemer Touch is tightly integrated with the COLOURlovers website, which provides scads of palettes to browse, "Love" and comment on. You can add your own and interact with other people's work. It's a nice social take on the idea of palette creation. ColorSchemer Touch is US$2.99 on the App Store. As I mentioned up top, we have five promo codes to hand out to lucky readers. If you'd like your own copy of ColorSchemer Touch for free, leave a comment below letting us know what you'd love to do with it. Good luck! Here are the rules and a link to the legal statement: Open to legal US residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia who are 18 and older. To enter, leave a comment describing your plans for ColorSchemer Touch. The comment must be left before Wednesday, December 22, 11:59PM Eastern Daylight Time. You may enter only once. Five winners will be selected in a random drawing. Prize: Promo code for ColorSchemer Touch. (US$2.99 value) Click Here for complete Official Rules. Good Luck!
ColorSchemer Studio 2 is here, and we have licenses!
We brought you a sneak peek at ColorSchemer Studio 2 last week, and I'm excited to share the news that it's available today. Any screen-based designer should be excited, and with the new CMYK support and advanced color manipulation tools, anybody who works with color at all should have a look. Some highlights from the new release: CMYK color support Color management/profiles GalleryBrowser: browse (and grab from) over a million palettes from COLOURlovers.com, right in the app LiveSchemes, advanced color/harmony manipulation Variations palette Color Libraries Favorite Colors color groups QuickPreview now has a wide selection of layouts to work with See the sneak peek for some more coverage on new features ColorSchemer Studio 2 costs $49.99US and has a free trial available. The exciting news is that TUAW has 3 ColorSchemer Studio licenses to give away to the color lovers among our readers. Just leave a comment mentioning what new feature you think will be the most useful to you, and we'll randomly select 3 winners from the entries on Wednesday, December 9th, 2009. Here are the rules and a link to the legal statement: Open to legal US residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia who are 18 and older. To enter leave a comment describing which of the new features you're most excited about The comment must be left before Tuesday, December 8th, 11:59PM Eastern Daylight Time. You may enter only once. Three winners will be selected in a random drawing. Prize: Full license for ColorSchemer Studio 2 Click Here for complete Official Rules. Good Luck!
Sneak Peek: ColorSchemer Studio 2, pick your palette
As part of my trade, I work a lot with colors. ColorSchemer Studio has long been a valuable tool in my toolkit for picking out color schemes based on solid color theory. It had its shortcomings, though, and some other tools had surpassed it, both on the desktop and on the iPhone. However, I got a sneak peek at the up-and-coming version 2.0 of ColorSchemer Studio, and I'm willing to say that it's poised to regain its lead in the field. ColorSchemer Studio 2 adds an amazing number of new features, and improves on just about every aspect of the existing toolkit. Firstly, I want to highlight that it can now work entirely in the CMYK gamut, if you choose. Screen colors are adjusted to a CMYK profile, and there are export options to match. That's a big deal for those who take their colors off the screen and into the real world. Even though many modern presses can actually get better color from an RGB file, CMYK still rules in the world of offset printing. While it's a huge step for this app, it's not the coolest part ... read on for an in-depth preview.
