ColorRotate Creates Design Colour Palettes
Need a new colour palette for your next design project? ColorRotate is a colour palette generator with a heavy dose of eye candy and easy-to-use controls.
The default setup for ColorRotate is a 3D diamond shape, which you use to set the tint, hue and blending for your palette. If you prefer a more traditional appearance, you can switch it over to a series of sliders. You can create a completely new palette or browse through popular user-created palettes, or modify them. If you create an account, you can save your palettes, but even without an account you can export palettes in .ACT format, which allows for import into Adobe products.
Palettes can be created in a variety of colour schemes including RGB, CMYK, and LAB. For another interesting way to generate a colour palette, check out Color Palette Generator which extracts a colour palette from an image.
ColorRotate [via Download Squad]
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meow-mixer
Just thought I'd quickly drop in a line about a weird issue I've just noticed on Lifehacker.
If you're on Firefox using Adblock Plus with the default Filterset.G options, things break badly - at all, 'cos the Login link doesn't appear. And if you aren't already logged in then, it's impossible to comment! Also, this causes the "favourites" heart icon to vanish, so no clipping is also possible.
Disabling ABP on Lifehacker.com restores normalcy, but shows the giant Gawker network ads :-)
Also, what's this "Zingr" link after all the Facebook/Twitter/Fark icons?
shrik
I'll stick to Adobe's own Kuler. It already integrates with Adobe products.
grokdesigns
I'd like to suggest:
[colorschemedesigner.com]
It's FAR more functional and intuitive than the link provided, it also is less of a strain on resources.
jeremy_mccurdy
It is way to complacated, and it does not give me the HTML/CSS color codes that would be required to reproduce it :(
Holy crap that's needlessly complicated. There are tons of better palette generators that don't just serve to confuse the hell out of you.
jeremy_mccurdy
This looks really nice, and useful. Going to give it a try.
If there was ever a program that didn't demand flashy eye candy, it would be a palette generator. It's difficult to pick out a color scheme when there are conflicting colors in the background. kuler is far more intuitive and allows you to focus on your palette without distraction.
lowtolerance
@not recommended by the ABP developers. There's a button in the ABP preferences to remove Filterset.G and subscribe to different filter lists (EasyList appears to be the preferred one these days). With this config, Lifehacker works normally.
As for Zinger, it's there to market Miracle Whip to a younger demographic via a browser plugin, connected to Facebook and Twitter. That's right, Miracle Whip, Facebook, and Twitter, together at last. And people wonder why I'm so cynical about advertising and marketing.
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@[www.adobe.com]
I'm wondering... there is a particular designer rules that limits all these softwares to just 5 colors?
Many times I needed more than 5 colors and creating multiple palettes doesn't helps, as I need to compare each color againt all the others.
@Adam: you could always take a screenshot of the results that ColorRotate gives you. Then you can paste the image into photoshop and use the eyedropper to give you the HTML color code for the color you click on with the tool. thats how i take colors from the web that i need to use for projects.
jslizzle
@grokdesigns: I have the Adobe CS4 Design Premium software (fireworks, photoshop, illustrator, indesign, flash, acrobat, and a few more i'm sure i'm forgetting). Can access this "Kuler" through this software and if not how do I access it? thanks.
jslizzle
@grokdesigns: +1 Kuler FTW!
SloYerRoll
@Adam: You actually need to download the pallete if you want to use it or just manually get the codes for every color which is a slow process.. and the page itself loads even slower, lol
Crap-Innovator
Erm, you need to actually download the pallete if you want to use it and yes, quite complicated and I just wish that it's downloadable.
Crap-Innovator
@cowboy_k: replacing Filterset.G with EasyList worked! Thanks! (and apologies to all for the threadjack..)
shrik
As a graphic designer I agree that the background colors on this just make it more difficult to see the color scheme you are looking at.
I have used colorschemedesigner.com and kuler.adobe.com
I like the graphics and eye candy aspect- but we are talking about finding the right colors... and getting anything other than the scheme you want to inspect just makes it more difficult.
TownyArt
An easier and less distracting generator is at [colorschemedesigner.com] And it lets you save as HTML+CSS, XML, text, ACO and PAL (GIMP).
penguiniator
@sciamannikoo: I think most designers try to adhere to the KISS principle. In the interests of corporate branding, you rarely want more than 5 colours in total to be associated with your brand. I agree that a little slider to change it would be good though.
@grokdesigns: Same, I'll stick with Kruler.
frak
@jeremy_mccurdy: Yeah, this does look confusing, might as well stick to Kuler.
AliShaikh_Returns
I can't get it to load in Chrome on W7's RC. Anyone else having problems?
SanjivaniQuintus
@shrik: I had been wondering why I was unable to comment on others post for a few days now, but uninstalling the filtersetG updater solved everything, yay!
TheLostVikings