Kuler is an Adobe product for creating and viewing color
themes.
- Web application (http://kuler.adobe.com )
- Adobe Air application (http://www.adobe.com/go/kuler_air)
- Extension for CS suite
Color Themes can be
created by the following techniques:
Color themes by mixing: Color themes can be created manually by selecting the color from the color wheel. Kuler also provides 7 types of color rules for creating color themes. Each of these color rules is based on the Color Theory. These rules are really useful if you are planning to create a color theme from scratch.
creating a color theme in Kuler - screenshot :
Color themes from the image: This is one of the beautiful features available
in Kuler. It allows the user to extract a color theme for an image. The image can
be uploaded directly by the user or fetched from Flickr. Colors can be picked manually by moving the
pointers over the image or themes can be created by selecting the predefined
moods.
Source image and extracted color theme :
Color theme by editing the existing themes (Color themes created
by other users)
Using it in
Photoshop/ Illustrator:
Importing it into Photoshop:
Color theme can be saved as an
.ASE (Adobe Swatch Exchange) file and then imported into Photoshop.
Kuler allows the users to save and publish the color themes
created by them. Other users can search color themes for inspirations and even
modify a color theme and save it with a custom name.
The touch version of the Kuler app is available for Android(Kuler for Android is discontinued now and no longer available) and it is yet to be released for iPhone/iPad.- List of Mashups done using Kuler from Adobe site: http://learn.adobe.com/wiki/display/kulerdev/C.+Samples
Here is a short Ad inspired by Kuler
If you are a developer and want to develop a Kuler application
– find the documentation here.