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1. kuler stories
monkinetic Dec 5, 2006 6:50 AM (in response to Sami@Adobe)I'm a designer and web geek, so I've approached kuler from both directions. When my head gets fried on some technical issue, I'll often fiddle with a color theme on kuler until my brian gets unstuck. I'm also hacking on the kuler API ***edited by moderator for content*** -
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Achmetha Dec 5, 2006 9:03 AM (in response to Sami@Adobe)I'm a beginning art student. I've been using this program to develop interesting color schemes for digital paintings and everything of the sort. I am also using kuler to help develop of a unique webfolio. -
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3ABNPublishing Dec 6, 2006 10:11 AM (in response to Sami@Adobe)I manage the publishing department at a TV and radio network. I've had a lot of fun just playing with kuler, and have been inspired by some of the great themes I've seen online. I've told my assistants about it, and one of them is already using kuler on a regular basis to produce color schemes for his art and layout designs. -
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vtp Dec 8, 2006 10:40 AM (in response to Sami@Adobe)I'm a web design student, currently taking both Flash and CSS classes where I have to produce a different web page or movie clip each week. Once I found Kuler, I couldn't help myself and have built several versions of each assignment trying out different color schemes. The great thing about Kuler is that not only can I create my own schemes, but I can browse through the schemes others have published to find something that appeals or matches the color of an image/graphic I'm using, then apply that scheme to my web page. Sometimes it really surprises me what ends up working best. -
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Sami@Adobe Dec 11, 2006 11:25 AM (in response to Sami@Adobe)Thanks for your stories. There is a real range of professions and experience! It's good to see that browsing other themes is providing some inspiration, as we hoped.
Looking forward to hearing more kuler tales...
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Luiz_Henrique_Pedroso Dec 16, 2006 10:31 AM (in response to Sami@Adobe)i'm graphic designer and graphic productor in brazil.
i'm using for make color harmonies for my works.
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Newsgroup_User Dec 16, 2006 2:28 PM (in response to Sami@Adobe)I am a designer dying to try Kuler but can't get started. When I launch the web
ap I just get a question mark (?) inside a Quicktime icon. I have QT Pro 7
loaded and Flash 9.0.28 but can't get Kuler to open in Safari on a G4 powerbook
running OS 10.4. Any ideas anyone? Just discovered Adobe Labs and it looks
great. Thanks.
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tobycryns Dec 18, 2006 12:13 PM (in response to Sami@Adobe)I am a web programmer who doesn't know much about creating good color schemes (Despite my best efforts to the contrary, I am regularly told that my wardrobe never matches either.). Kuler has really sparked my imagination as well as given me a good starting point for coming up with color schemes for websites. Thanks! -
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Peasly Dec 23, 2006 5:24 PM (in response to tobycryns)you underestimate yourself..
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Jon Henshaw Dec 29, 2006 8:56 PM (in response to Sami@Adobe)I was inspired by kuler's design, not just its use as a tool. I found a color scheme that I really liked ("Orange on olive" by mats.holmberg) and copied the pattern as-is to use for a decorative mast. I then used many of the colors (actually shades of gray) from the kuler site to create my new blog. Coupled with TextPattern (a kick *** CMS) and sIFR 3 (a Flash and JavaScript based typography solution that's also search engine friendly) I was able to relaunch my site in style at http://jonhenshaw.com/ -
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All4artz000 Jan 9, 2007 6:55 AM (in response to Sami@Adobe)I am a Freelance Web/graphic design. Kuler is Now CRUCIAL to my web Development. It Short cuts the time it take for me to drum up a color theme for a new web design. I send my Clients to Kuler's main site to pick a color scheme they want the take a screenshot and email it me or even print out. I would be so please if Adobe adds a "Email to Friend" function to the site.
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Schwecheimer1 Jan 9, 2007 11:24 AM (in response to Sami@Adobe)I am a Web Developer/Designer/Graphic Artist. I love Kuler and use if for many applications from Color Schemes for Websites to print material. I am able to take a base color and quickly try different combinations. Great tool. -
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Sami@Adobe Jan 11, 2007 9:54 AM (in response to Sami@Adobe)These are great, thanks to all for posting. Keep 'em coming!
All4artz000: Your feature request has been added to the list.
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_newbie Jan 14, 2007 10:21 AM (in response to Sami@Adobe)Hi there!
I am s student at a higher technical school. I am using the colors for my Java-Game. My game is not only fun to play but it contains a lot of color schemes from kuler. I just love this site. The game will soon be available on www.redesigned.at.tf . I will also have a link to kuler on my site. Currently the site is in building mode but my game will be available on it as soon as it is finished. (This evening). -
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Sami@Adobe Jan 15, 2007 11:25 AM (in response to Sami@Adobe)Hi, that's a cool use of kuler! Looking forward to checking out the game, let us know when it's live.
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VLCNCRZR Jan 23, 2007 11:03 AM (in response to Sami@Adobe)I am using Kuler for my color schemes on graphical user interfaces
for touch panel controls on AMX & Crestron control systems.
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Bonfimzinho Feb 7, 2007 1:28 AM (in response to Sami@Adobe)I'm a Graphic designer and I work in France.
I studied Arts in the Rio's Federal University ( Brazil ) and Lithographie in Art's University in Berlin ( Germany ).
I like to draw illustrations but it was not easy to me to fill it with collors.
Now it's OK, no STRESS, Choosing collors can be a pleasent time.
Thanks Kuler!!!
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Sami@Adobe Feb 8, 2007 8:28 AM (in response to Sami@Adobe)Hello Josivan,
Thanks for posting! We're really pleased at how international our users are, and your background really adds to that. :)
Would love to see your illustration work if you have a web site.
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ytknows Feb 8, 2007 12:38 PM (in response to Sami@Adobe)I work at a small weekly newspaper in Georgia, USA. I discovered kuler from a link on John Nack's blog, and have been using it ever since. We do 5 or 6 full color magazines each year (regional-oriented) and have already used it on 2 of our magazines for ads and in editorial layout. I love it! Kuler even received mention at our company's latest technical meeting, so our organization's many newspapers are all familiar with it now. You rock, Adobe team! -
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mrs messy Feb 11, 2007 6:35 AM (in response to Sami@Adobe)I work as a web designer and i started to use kuler for colour schemes - i sent my colleagues the link and now we all have fun using it!... in my own time i also use it for personal projects such as illustrations. It's addictive.... -
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Newsgroup_User Feb 18, 2007 8:59 PM (in response to Sami@Adobe)Sami,
Is it possible to open the themes to the community as a web service? I am
working on an application that could apply the colors on the fly. The themes
could ultimately be scrolled through to see how the application look and feel
changes. Even if I was abel to copy a comma delimited list of the swatch
colors from the interface rather than click each field from the create screen.
Your thoughts? Thanks.
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strikefish Feb 18, 2007 9:00 PM (in response to Sami@Adobe)Sami,
Is it possible to open the swatches to the community as a web service? I am working on an application that could apply the colors on the fly. The themes could ultimately be scrolled through to see how the application look and feel changes. Even if I was able to copy a comma delimited list of the swatch colors from the interface rather than click each field from the create screen. Your thoughts? Thanks. -
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Sami@Adobe Feb 20, 2007 10:38 AM (in response to Sami@Adobe)Hi Strikefish,
Interesting stuff you are working on! We are looking into it. Thanks for the post.
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ellamarie Feb 21, 2007 11:29 AM (in response to Sami@Adobe)i love kuler!
i use it to find quirky schemes for my stained glass work
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Ostrya.geo Feb 22, 2007 9:16 AM (in response to Sami@Adobe)I'm not color blind, but have been accused of it. This is a great tool to get some color mojo working in a hurry. Are there any plans to expand the number of colors available in a swatch? At present I have been changing the base color value to one of the other colors in the swatch to get a new related set. -
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Sami@Adobe Feb 22, 2007 1:24 PM (in response to Sami@Adobe)Hi, we are always interested in new feature ideas. How many swatches would be ideal? Please respond on the MIssing Features thread since we track requests in topics like that.
I'm curious, how are you using kuler? For print, web, professional and/or hobbies?
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Claudius_F Feb 26, 2007 3:32 PM (in response to Sami@Adobe)I am enjoying Kuler for the first time. I am a cartographer and am regularly in need of color schemes for coloring neighboring regions. I heard about Kuler in Mordy Golding's illustrator class.
What a cool site! I only wish it had an undo and/or a reverte button. -
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magrolino Feb 27, 2007 6:17 AM (in response to Sami@Adobe)i am assistant professor at a university of applied science and I use kuler for creating convenient color sets for my slides as well as for small web projects (besides work I do a lot in photography, I tried to use kuler in combinations with duetone images but not a lot of experience with that yet).
I found out about kuler at john nack's blog and I gave the url to a lot of our students (which use kuler as well for web related projects afaik).
great app, thx for providing that for free! I would really like to see that one day as well as a standalone app with the possibility of importing and exporting color sets as well as a fast preview of colorset-files. at the moment there is no convenient way for me to know what a colorset in a single file looks like - without importing every single file into an adobe app.
I like the flashbased idea, but a standalone app with web connectivity (sharing, uploading,...) AND with the benefits of fast and small standalone apps would be really nice. is something like that planned at adobe? -
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Sami@Adobe Feb 27, 2007 10:34 AM (in response to Sami@Adobe)Hi folks,
These are great posts, thanks so much for sharing. I'll pass them along to the team.
As far as suggestions, I'd love a little more info. Claude, can you just clarify in what situations you want an undo/revert button? That would be helpful for us in thinking about use cases (we can guess, but always good to hear direct). Magrolino, can you describe what mean when you say you aren't sure what the color set will look like? Is it a color management issue?
Thanks again!
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eggonbeagle Feb 27, 2007 11:02 AM (in response to Sami@Adobe)Hey. Thanks for this tool .. its very good.
I'm using it to work with some interior designers in San Francisco; taking their input and shooting out different color schemes for their website based on existing materials..like tiles, paint chips, or images..
nice format; then I email a pdf for them to review ~ you could build in automated pdf export/support... just a thought.
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strikefish Feb 27, 2007 11:08 AM (in response to Sami@Adobe)Sami,
I'd be more than happy to design and write code for the kuler team with regard to my web service request. Please let me know if I can help in anyway. -
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Newsgroup_User Feb 28, 2007 4:07 AM (in response to Sami@Adobe)quote:
Originally posted by: Sami Iwata
Magrolino, can you describe what mean when you say you aren't sure what the
color set will look like? Is it a color management issue?
No, what I meant was the following situation:
I download and save a lot of color sets on my pc(s) as color swatch files.
After weeks, months ... they probably change online or get difficult to
re-find. So I have a look through all the files on my harddisk - but to find
out how which set looks like I have to import them set for set into an adobe
app. Or I have to use some kind of script to do that - so it takes a lot of
time to find a specific color set. Some kind of preview would be nice so I can
browse through all my local colorset files (nevertheless exactly this scenario
is not really possible for a webapp, i know - but at least some miniapp to flip
through local colorset files would be nice).
Sorry for the maybe difficult-to-understand-explanation, I hope my ideas are
clearer now..
I am no native speaker :)
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magrolino Feb 28, 2007 4:07 AM (in response to Sami@Adobe)quote:
Originally posted by: Sami Iwata
Magrolino, can you describe what mean when you say you aren't sure what the color set will look like? Is it a color management issue?
No, what I meant was the following situation:
I download and save a lot of color sets on my pc(s) as color swatch files. After weeks, months ... they probably change online or get difficult to re-find. So I have a look through all the files on my harddisk - but to find out how which set looks like I have to import them set for set into an adobe app. Or I have to use some kind of script to do that - so it takes a lot of time to find a specific color set. Some kind of preview would be nice so I can browse through all my local colorset files (nevertheless exactly this scenario is not really possible for a webapp, i know - but at least some miniapp to flip through local colorset files would be nice).
Sorry for the maybe difficult-to-understand-explanation, I hope my ideas are clearer now..
I am no native speaker :)
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Baldwick Feb 28, 2007 2:35 PM (in response to Sami@Adobe)THANK YOU! This tool is marvellous. I am a mechanical engineer doing "functional" web-sites within a factory environment. I am using .net 2.0, AJAX and SQL servers. And kuler makes it all look a little less sad. I introduced my mother to kuler and she thought of color patterns for knitting..... I also do the same kind of work for my wifes web site promoting our dance/aerobics studio and for point-of-sale programming. Color is always interesting/important but a little tricky for mech-minds like myself. -
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baerwald Feb 28, 2007 4:09 PM (in response to Sami@Adobe)I'm creating a wedding website and would like to use kuler to apply my wedding colors to my site. I just wish I could login sucessfully. -
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Sami@Adobe Mar 5, 2007 11:54 AM (in response to Sami@Adobe)Hello,
Thanks for the recent posts, what a fantastic range of applications!
Baerwald, sorry to hear about your log-in troubles. The authentication problems give us fits on this end but the kuler team can't change that part. We appreciate your patience, and congratulations on your upcoming wedding!
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hfreeman17 Apr 4, 2007 4:01 PM (in response to Sami@Adobe)I am getting ideas from kuler to pass along to the designer of my book, due out this spring. I am self-publishing, so I have total artistic control and get to have my say in the jacket design, etc.. Kind of anal that way.
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Sami@Adobe Apr 5, 2007 9:44 AM (in response to Sami@Adobe)Hi, it's not every day we get a post from a country-music-loving surfer. Please tag/title your final color scheme and share it out. We'd love to see it. Add a comment and give us the backstory. :)
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twinklebunnytoes Apr 12, 2007 8:24 PM (in response to Sami@Adobe)I an an artist and I love watching the creativity that people put into creating schemes. I find this very entertaining. I believe all of us have an inner artist and Kuler is a great way for people to express it without the intimidation of paints and canvas.
I picked up one of the themes and am redeveloping my website around it now.
TBT



