CocoaKuler: Badass Color Picker For Your Mac
We’ve long been fans of Adobe’s kuler, the tool/site/community for web designers to create and share color schemes, and thanks to CocoaKuler, you can now have the goodness of kuler right inside your Mac applications.
CocoaKuler adds a kuler tab to the standard Apple color picker, pulling in the latest and greatest color schemes directly from the kuler site. You can browse through a list of scheme or use the very slick, coverflow-style controls. There’s also an option to search kuler by tag. Once you find something you like you can either save it as an Adobe Swatch Exchange file, an Apple Color List or head to actual webpage for more details.
Despite what the name implies, CocoaKuler actually works in plenty of non-Cocoa apps, like Photoshop or anything else that supports the system-wide color picker. Lithoglyph software, the folks behind the kuler color picker are currently in search of a new name, so if you have any ideas head over and let them know.
To use CocoaKuler in Photoshop, you’ll need to head into the preferences pane and change the default color picker from Adobe to Apple. We highly recommend you change back to Adobe’s color picker when you’re done since the Apple color picker doesn’t work very well when it comes to print production in Photoshop.
CocoaKuler is currently a beta and can be downloaded for free. I’ve been playing with it off and on for the few days in several applications, including Photoshop and CSSEdit and haven’t had any problems, but it is a beta so you’ve been warned.
[via Adobe’s John Nack]
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