If you are a Creative freak who loves color or a Designer, I am sure Kuler will attract you in the first shot. This was discovered by the creative team at Adobe and they called it Kuler – pronunciation is same as color – “Discover Adobe Kuler”
As you are all aware, there are millions of colors existing in this colorful world to choose from. As such no color is waste, no color is useless, no color is non-attractive. In other words, it all depends on how, when, and where you use a particular color.
Being a creative freak, you will have an idea on which color looks good in your room or for your website or accessories or dressing, etc., but many times we fail to choose the right shade of color which is really in your mind. Adobe Kuler is the right tool to make the right decision on colors.
Adobe Kuler is a web-hosted application for exploring, creating, and sharing color themes. It helps you to experiment quickly with color variations, browse and use thousands of themes from the Kuler community. So Color oops sorry “Kuler” your applications :) or create new mashups by using this new and handy Kuler application.
Kuler uses Adobe Flash technology and works both as a standalone tool and with Adobe Creative Suite software.
Download the Kuler desktop and install it to browse and search themes, drag themes to the desktop, or download them directly to the Swatches panel in Adobe Photoshop CS3, Illustrator CS3, or InDesign CS3. To run the Kuler desktop, you’ll need to download the Adobe AIR, runtime first.
Not only you can explore the colors, but you can also even share your discovered color themes with the creative freaks around the world and you can even have their valuable feedback on your color themes by being a part of their community. Join the discussion on Kuler’s talk. Ask questions, suggest new features, and get help from the lively Kuler community.
You can even create colorful themes even by uploading your favorite image or from your favorite flickr images.
Here are a couple of interesting features of Adobe Kuler:
- Creating new themes from millions of colors
- Browse themes by Newest, Most Popular, Highest Rated, or Random options.
- Quickly search thousands of themes by tag word, title, creator, or hex color value.
- Store, view, and retrieve all your saved themes in your personal Mykuler space.
- Download themes in Adobe Swatch Exchange (ASE) format as color swatches in Adobe Creative Suite
- Choosing colors from Interactive color wheel
- Extracting color themes from your favorite colorful images
- You can comment and give rating to the themes
Check out its all Adobe Kuler features
And also check Kuler Adobe Learning Resources at their kuler developer zone.
Support Kuler by using their “Colored by Kuler” Logo
I love this Adobe Kuler, very easy, handy and I can say It’s a HUGE world of colors :). If you are using it already, just leave your thoughts/comments/reviews about the tool.
