ATV 3 Research point 2

 

I have never looked into using an online colour app for my work. I am a very hands on person when it comes to my work and as I spend a lot of my day on a computer a work, I like to get away from it for my creative work. 

I am open minded and keen to explore what they have to offer. 

Adobe Color CC

I had heard of Adobe as a creative software but I had not heard of Adobe Color CC. I began by looking through the app and having a play with the different features. I wanted to make sure I knew about the features and understood the app better, so I spent some time watching a Youtube tutorial. 

Adobe Color CC creates 5 colour swatches from and image uploaded into the app. It also allows you to create a colour palette by clicking  on the colour wheel. You can pick a base colour and the wheel will create the 4 additional colour swatches. Palettes can also be created as Monochromatic, Triad, Complementary, Square, Compound, Shade and Custom. The colour palettes can then be saved to a library. 

Mudcube

Mudcube seems more basic than Adobe Color CC, it does not have the option to add a image to the app. The app is focused full around the colour wheel creating 6 colour swatches with an option to change the hue, saturation and luminance. The colour wheel is changed by moving the numbers around the wheel. 

There is also the option to change the harmony with the options of Neutral, Analogous, Clash, Complementary, Triadic, Tetradic and Tone. With an additional option for vision, which allows wheel to be changed in response to colour vision.

Hailpixel 

I believe this is meant to be more of an app for your phone rather than on windows. I did look into the app but it was an app that needed to be purchased. The app was just a coloured skin and depending on which why you moved the mouse it changed the colour. Back and forth to change the hue, up and down for lightness and scroll for saturation. 

Color Hunter

Color Hunter was not a very inviting website and the was very difficult to navigate. Once I had worked my way past all the adverts, which were very distracting. It made it very difficult to work on what to click on with the adverts all over the site. Once I found out where to upload my image, it created 5 colour swatches. I had chosen one of my more colourful images thinking it would produce an interesting colour palette, unfortunately it picked up on the dull tones in the picture. This is not a very user friendly and its not an app I would use again.

CoIRD

This app reminded me of a mixture of Adobe Color CC and Pinterest. I found it difficult to navigate again, but once I had the settings were quite basic. With only the option to pick out the colours from the image. There was no colour wheel or option to change the tone/hue. This is an app I would consider using again, it was easy to save palettes and had an option to upload onto photoshop.

Summary

I have found it interesting looking through the colour apps. They are all based on the same principle, but some where simpler to use than others. Adobe Color CC was the app to give the most extra features. I think I would need to explore the app further and become more confident in using the app. Once I have become more confident, I would like to use this in my work.