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› November 11, 2003
ColorMatch Remix
From Twysted.net comes a remake (with the authors blessing) of a the ColorMatch 5k (here is the original) slider based web color picker. Improvements include valid XHTML 1.1 table-less layout, and a really useful Adobe Photoshop swatch file export (act file). I think this ColorMatch Remix tool is worth a bookmark.
My little graphic below shows that after you've messed around with the sliders and found a nice color harmony to use in your design, it's a very simple matter to get those colors into Photoshop - no typing in hex codes needed.
For those who have upgraded to Adobe Creative Suite and notice the Illustrator icon in my graphic - Illustrator .act files are a different beast, my system chose to give the downloaded file an illustrator icon, but it works just great in photoshop, perhaps we can persuade the author of this fine tool to make an Illustrator act file export as well?
Update: Illustrator swatch files are now supported!
Comments
1. November 12, 2003 04:23 AM
2. November 12, 2003 01:55 PM
Michael Heilemann Posted…
Very very nice! Thank you for bringing this to my attention.
Twyst Posted…
Well, as per your suggestion, I've now added Illustrator output. Also, I've modified the file naming code, so that it will generate a unique filename on export. Any other suggestions?