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Coming Soon: ColorSchemer Touch

Monday, September 20th, 2010

Things have been quiet around here recently while we’ve been working on a big new project: ColorSchemer Touch for iPhone/iPod Touch! ColorSchemer Touch is the first joint project from ColorSchemer and our sister site COLOURlovers. The mobile app includes many of the powerful color creation tools you’ll find in our ColorSchemer Studio desktop software, as [...]

Icons and Updates

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

If you’re a regular reader of MacUser magazine, you might have spotted this icon in the “Software Champion” feature on ColorSchemer Studio a few months back: ColorSchemer Studio 2 Icon It’s the brand new 512×512 icon for ColorSchemer Studio 2 (Mac), created by Eugen Buzak at Icon Drawer. With all of the exciting new features [...]

LiveSchemes – a color scheme machine!

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

One of the most exciting new features in the new ColorSchemer Studio 2 (PC) is the brand new LiveSchemes tool. LiveSchemes are like a color scheme-creating machine. You give them a starting color, and they go to work – giving you countless ideas for color palettes based around your starting color. You can even create [...]

Announcing ColorSchemer Studio 2 (PC)!

Monday, February 16th, 2009

Things have been quiet around here recently, and it’s finally time to reveal why: ColorSchemer Studio 2 (for PC) is now available! ColorSchemer Studio 2 has been completely re-written from the ground up to support a number of advanced new features and tools, including: CMYK Support One of the most common feature requests we get [...]

Gallery Updates

Monday, December 15th, 2008

The ColorSchemer Gallery has undergone a lot of changes under the hood, making way for some new features and enhancements. Here’s some of the biggest new changes: Comments: Leave comments for others and get feedback on your shared schemes! Inline Editing: Edit the tags, description, URL, etc for your shared schemes right on the page [...]

ColorPix Screencast

Friday, October 17th, 2008

One of our free products, which doesn’t always get a lot of attention, is a handy little screen color picker called ColorPix. If you’ve used ColorPix before, you know that it works like your own personal screen color sampler and magnifying glass – zooming in on pixels so you can quickly grab colors from anywhere [...]

ColorSchemer Studio OSX 1.5.5 (Mac) Released

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

Hot on the heels of the v1.5.4 release, ColorSchemer Studio OSX v1.5.5 (Mac) is now available. Among the improvements in this new release: Export your colors to Apple Color Picker (clr) files, which you can use to load all of your colors into the standard Mac OS X color picker. There have been a number [...]

Leopard Compatibility

Monday, November 5th, 2007

For all of the Mac users making the move to Leopard, ColorSchemer Studio is compatible with Mac OS X Leopard. Also, if you use the Dashboard Galleria widget, a new version (v1.1) has been released to fix an issue with its display on the Leopard Dashboard.

Coming soon to a Dashboard near you…

Tuesday, July 25th, 2006

If you’re on a Mac, like Dashboard widgets, and enjoy looking at pretty colors, then you might like this: Tentatively called Color Schemer Galleria, a beta version should be available shortly for you to play with.

Color Schemer Studio OSX is now a Universal Binary

Wednesday, July 19th, 2006

Color Schemer Studio OSX 1.5.2 (for Mac) is now available! The biggest changes in this release are that the app is now a (much requested) Universal Binary and will run natively on the latest Intel Macs, and the program also includes a new auto-update system called Sparkle (created by Andy Matuschak) that makes it easy [...]