Palettes 2.0
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Summary
Palettes is a powerful iPhone productivity tool for creating and maintaining color palettes. Turn your iPhone or iPod Touch into a portable color creation tool. Now you can create a color palette anywhere at anytime. Great for creating color schemes. Grab colors from a photograph, a website, or add colors using any one of 5 color models. Quickly find matching colors with support for many different color schemes.
Palettes comes in one of three levels: Lite, Basic, and Pro. The free Lite version can be upgraded from directly within the application to the other levels giving you greater functionality. When you first install Palettes you get the Pro level for free. After ten launches of Palettes you will automatically revert back to the Lite level. You can upgrade to another level at any time before or after this demo period.
Version 2.0 is now available in the App Store.
Note: This version of Palettes replaces the old Palettes Lite application.
Palettes Pro is also available. Existing users of Palettes 1.6 or earlier automatically get Palettes Pro as a free upgrade.
Version 2.0 is now available in the App Store.
Quotes
Fantastic - Graphic designers, illustrators, web designers will find this app one of the best color palette tools ever. Easy to use, comprehensive, useful, what more could you want? - Australia
Brilliant! - This is so awesome! It's easy to use and you can grab [palettes] from anywhere! It's the most [convenient] swatch book ever! - Australia
Magnificent application! - Extraordinary application, a breathtaking achievement! ... - France
A must-have for Web and Graphic Designers - The ability to automatically load colour palettes from a website is a very inventive and valuable feature. - United Kingdom
Graphic designers and web designers - buy this! - United States
Innovative color combination app ... - United States
Best Color App Around - I reviewed all of the other apps available for the iPod Touch/iPhone and found this one to be far superior to the others. The devloper has done an amazing job in providing a very functional and versatile tool at an extremely reasonable price... - United States
Features
Features new to version 2.0 in bold.
- Quickly create a color palette from a web site, image, camera, or color scheme.
- Import/Export palettes from/to Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Fireworks, GIMP, Paintshop Pro, and OS X Color Chooser. (Pro)
- Import/Export palettes via email. Team development made easy with one click import. (Pro)
- Backup and restore Palettes data directly to/from your own computer. (Basic, Pro)
- Import and export palette files directly to/from your own computer. (Pro)
- Email color palettes to friends and co-workers.
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Pick colors from:
- RGB, HSV (HSB), HSL, CMYK, or Gray scale sliders.
- Standard colors lists (SVG, Web Safe, HTML, Java, Apple) or other palettes.
- A website URL (webpage, image, CSS file, 3rd party palette file).
- An image or camera.
- Any valid CSS3 color representation.
- Create colors via color blending (Pro adds using 1 of 4 color models).
- Create colors via color schemes (monochromatic (Pro), analogous, triadic (Pro), complementary, split complementary (Pro)).
- Review color details (integer, hex, percent, decimal, CSS).
- Preview a color as both a foreground and background color.
- Display a color full screen to compare against a real world item (press and hold color briefly).
- "Palette Flow". Turn the main screen sideways.
- Palette preview screen.
- Review image used to create palette.
- Backup a palette as an image in your photo library for later restore. (Basic, Pro)
- Rename, reorder, or delete palettes.
- Sort palette colors by RGB, HSV/B, HSL, CMYK, or Gray color model. (Pro)
- All work is saved as you go.
- Always remembers where you left off last.
- Built in context sensitive help system.
- Preferences can be set in the built-in Settings application. (Ignored in Lite)
Changes in version 2.0.1
- Updated icon for Palettes Pro.
- Removed access to COLOURlovers.
- Minor bug fixes.
Changes in version 2.0
- Now require iPhone OS 3.0 or greater.
- Using in app purchasing you now upgrade functionality to Palettes Basic and/or Palettes Pro.
- Import and Export Adobe Color Table (act) files (Pro).
- Third party palette files now sent via email as regular email attachments instead of links (Pro).
- Emailing a palette no longer exits Palettes (Pro).
- Don't automatically present palette rename screen after importing palette from URL.
- Allow user to change sample colors (double tap) in the Preview pane of the Info palette view (Pro).
- Minor user interface adjustments.
Changes in version 1.6
- Viewing the main palette list in landscape mode presents Palette Flow. Tap the center palette view it.
- You can now select the area of an image or photograph when importing image colors.
Requirements
- An iPhone or iPod Touch - any version running iPhone OS 3.0 or greater.
- Some features require a network connection - Edge, 3G, or WiFi. The features are:
- Importing from a URL
- Emailing a palette
- Backup and restore of Palettes data to/from your computer
- Import and export of palette files to/from your computer
Support
Please visit the support forum to leave feedback, ask questions, or report an issue.
Or send an email to 'rmaddy@gmail.com'.