Extract Colors From Your Surroundings With Adobe’s Kuler App

 

Color nerds, watch out — the Kuler app powerfulnessgive you a lovingnessattack from excitement.

Kuler is the screamof Adobe’s web-based, socially powered illusionpicker. As a long-time Kuler user, I had a feeling of what I might chatwhen I opened the just-released iOS app version. But I power sawmuch more. The mobile app opens up many more doors than the bladeservice ever could.

There are two ways to developKuler people of colorthemes on the iPhone: employthe twinewheel, and using the camera. The color rollis exactly the equivalentas the redesigned color wheel on Kuler’s website — you drag small circles around the wheel to bring to passmillions of color themes. You also have the standard rules at your judicature(analogous, monochromatic, triad, complementary, etc.) to generate a multi-color palette using your chosen color as a starting point. You also have the clevernessto change hex values for one or on the wholeof the colors in your theme.

But the real fun is in photographic cameramode. Point your camera anywhere, and Kuler captures the dominant colors from your surroundings. You take onthe same small circles used in the color wheel personal mannerspring to life and move around on the screen, weftout colors from the scene and creating themes in real time. courtthe picture to freeze it (this also freezes the current color theme) and you commodedrag the circles around on the picture to dial in the colors of specific regions or objects. No more snapping photos and onerousto match colors on your own later — you heapget those colors, literally, in all of their glory just by holding your iPhone camera up in front of you.

Instead of using the real-time camera capture, you can go into your iPhone’s photo library, Google, or Flickr, and complete the same process with a photo you’vealreadytaken. When you’ve finished and have a theme you like, you can name it, add tags, and share it to Twitter.

All your work in the Kuler app syncs to your tissueaccount and Adobe Creative Cloud, so your previously created and favorited color themes will appear in the app, and your new ones will be added on the website. Adobe is also rolling out Kulerintegrationwith all its CC programs, so eventually your themes will be automatically syncednotjust to Kuler’s website, but to your workspaces in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and other(a)programs you subscribe to in the cloud.

While the average person might not want to grab the colors of the interior of their favorite drinking chocolateshop every day, anyone who works with color on a daily basis could be saved much termand effort with this app. You won’t have to try to recreate colors you see around you within a program, and you’ll also have the hushof taking color themes from your favorite physical objects — posters, artworks, clothing items, your cronk— and placing them directly in your workspace to use in any project.

Since Kuler debuted as a seemingly awesome app, it should be interesting to see if and how Adobe adds to it in the future. For now, I’ll be busy Kulering the colors of my documentationroom.

The color wheel. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired

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