Painter`s Picker also adds more precise controls for choosing saturation, hue angle, and brightness. Painter`s Picker is the simplest way to perform complex color selection in almost any Mac OS X application
Painter`s Picker adds the ability to choose related colors, such as complementary colors, analogous colors, etc. directly within the color picker.
If you`ve ever mixed paint in school or looked at a color chart in an optometrist`s office, then you`re familiar with the kind of color wheel that Painter`s Picker gives you.
If you`ve stood in a paint store looking at swatches and wondered how to find 2, 3 or 4 colors that will look right together in your living room, then you`ll appreciate Painter`s Picker`s system for choosing color schemes.
If you`ve used other color wheel programs for Mac OS X, but disliked having to open another application and interrupt your workflow just to choose a color, then you`ll like how much easier Painter`s Picker is to use. It just appears right in your color picker.
If you`re a person who needs to work with color, and make sure that colors work together, whether for print or the web or computer graphics, then you`ll find Painter`s Picker to be simple, accessible and powerful.
Here are some key features of "Painter`s Picker":
· use an artist`s color wheel in almost any Mac OS X application that uses color
· quickly access the 12 traditional primary, secondary, and tertiary colors
· easily choose any color in between these 12 colors
· get to common tints and shades quickly, or choose any in between value
· blend your colors to gray simply using a slider or a menu
· get to the most common tones of a color with one click
· quickly find and select any color`s complementary color
· find out which 2 colors clash most with a given color
· see at a glance the recommended relative proportions of a color within a scheme
find color relationships using more than 20 different kinds of color scheme:
· 5 kinds of analogous scheme
· 5 kinds of tetradic scheme
· 2 kinds of triad
· 4 complex complementary schemes
· schemes to show colors that are warmer, cooler, lighter or darker than a given color and more
· use colors chosen with the other color pickers Mac OS X provides
· choose a color then pass it on to any other color picker
· save your color schemes as color lists for later use
· use colors chosen with the color picker`s magnifying glass
· drag & drop colors within Painter`s Picker or with other applications
· fine tune your color selection using decimal precision
· adjust your color selection using the scroll wheel
· use mathematical expressions to calculate color values even with radians...
· find the nearest web-safe color for a given color
· switch easily between RGB, CMYK and Web Safe color spaces
· work with CMYK colors using a RYB color wheel
· use a RGB color wheel instead of RYB, if you feel the urge
Requirements:
· Adobe Photoshop or Macromedia Freehand,
· G4, G5 or Intel processor.
Limitations:
· Painter`s Picker will display a watermark around its color wheel.
· Painter`s Picker will also on occasion display a registration dialog.
What`s New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Painter`s Picker no longer shows the register reminder sheet when it first appears. This was causing a conflict with some programs.
· It should be noted that, as of version 2.2.1, Painter`s Picker is still not a 64-bit bundle, and so applications must load in 32-bit mode to use it.