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Seamless Studio a simple way to create complex patterns
For those who love to play with colors and patterns, the new Seamless Studio is to creating patterns what the excellent ColorSchemer Studio is to color palettes. It turns the free online Seamless into a powerful desktop tool with a number of additional features for pattern creators such as the ability to create seamless tiling patterns, multicolored patterns, layers and templates, custom-shape libraries and more. Like with ColorSchemer Studio, it includes direct integration with COLOURlovers community for sharing and getting inspiration. Seamless Studio is $49 with a 15-day free trial available. And, if you want to try ColorSchemer Studio, it's currently on sale for $9.99 via the Mac App Store.
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.
