****~ NEW DISCOVERY ~****

Well new to me anyway :) its a small software addition by adobe called kuler. This and pinterest will be the DEATH of me! I’m obsessed! Kuler is amazing for those who consider themselves color-challenged. You can make your own color combinations or take your inspiration from an image. So it works like this:

• pick a base color- you can play with the color range make it lighter, darker, more/less saturated, change the rgb/cmyk/hsv levels etc.
• then you can select a rule:
• analogous- matches colors with adjacent hues
• monochromatic- focus on one color and its varied intensity and lightness in a single hue
• triad- spaces your colors in a triangle around the color wheel for a contrasting theme
• complementary- opposes 2 colors on the wheel for a simple theme based on 2 hues
• compound- combines multiple colors to produce interesting hues
• shades- creates subtle variations from the base color’s hue
• custom- total freedom, do whatever you want!
• Finally you can import it into Adobe Creative Suite and viola!

It pretty much does all of the work for you and in the process you are able to educate yourself and understand how its combining the colors. Wish I had known about this last year! As a design student with limited resources when putting together presentations you are at the mercy of the materials available in the design library. This could help tremendously when having to put together the lesser of 2 evils of fabric choices and make them look good lol. 

The other great thing about this site is you can browse other people’s creations and get inspired! Try it out and see if you don’t get addicted!!

Oh and of course there’s an app for that! Get it for your ipad, iphone, personal widget, etc.

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