Use the powerful HVC Color Composer Photoshop plug-in to work in a totally new color space that can automatically build custom color palettes
The HVC Color Composer plug-in to Adobe Photoshop presents a unique perceptual HVC—hue, value, and chroma—color space which is a natural, intuitive way for artists and designers to use color. HVC Color Composer is an enhanced version of Photoshop’s own Color Picker, allowing you to switch between the enhanced color picker and the basic color picker at any time through Photoshop’s preferences. HVC Color Composer has all of the features as the Photoshop color picker and in the same basic layout so it will be completely familiar to any Photoshop user.
The first significant difference you’ll notice in the picker is the Master Colors Perceptual HVC Space. This is a new color space, resting along side the other spaces accessible through Photoshop. The H, V and C radio buttons in the picker are placed similar to the other 3-axis color spaces. Just click one of the radio buttons to begin using the HVC color space to select color.
As an added convenience, the enhanced color picker features a new “split slider”. On the left side of the slider is an unchanging gradation, displaying the general range of the active axis. On the right side is a gradation displaying the range for that axis given the current position of the other two. So the right side displays values for the original color, and changes as you pick new colors. Sweet, to say the least. It also denotes positions on the axis where the colors are outside the HVC bounds. The other spaces benefit from the new split slider feature as well.
All the other color spaces standard to Photoshop are included in the enhanced picker: HSB, RGB, Lab and CMYK. You can activate these the same way you active HVC for selection: click one of the radio buttons next to the space and particular axis. And just as with the standard color picker, if you select a color using one space, the values for that color in the other color space text boxes are dynamically displayed. I found this plug-in to be like someone instilling a natural ability to show “great taste” in all of my design projects.
Color spaces like RGB are not ideally suited for creative use. The human mind is not accustomed to considering color in quantities of red, green and blue light. There are many visual distortions in RGB as well. HSB—just a re-organisation of RGB—is a bit better for navigating through colors, but suffers from the same visual distortions. CMYK and Lab, both have their uses, but accommodating the creative process is not one of them. Color Composer provides fully distortion-free clarity to color selection. Color Composer instantly determines the numerical distances between millions of colors as measured by contrast. The Colour Quantification Technology built into the plug-in allows the software to organise mathematically coherent palettes, in much the same way harmony works in music. The software does the maths—the user gets beautiful, powerful palettes to use in a natural and intuitive way.
Simple? You bet. You just start with one or more base project colors and enter your desired palette settings and the HVC Color Composer will automatically generate palettes that work perfectly with those colors. Seriously...the results will astound you and it takes the guesswork out of color choices. Color Composer offers fully dynamic control over Depth and Contrast settings for generated palettes. This lets you easily narrow or widen the palette results dynamically to generate as many—or as few—complementary colors as you desire. The plug-in ends the tedious and sometimes seemingly impossible task of creating color combinations that work well together. The palettes that are generated are unique, vibrant, interesting arrays of color that users would not be able to find using any other methods, not even by endlessly flipping through professional design swatch or palette books. Yet the palettes have actual significance to a designer’s current project specifications.
The palettes can be saved into Photoshop Swatch format files and then opened in the Swatch palette for easy and convenient use. This allows designers to work in an intuitive way where they can focus on the work in progress. HVC Color Composer Professional insures that everyone can intuitively create unlimited, powerful, interesting color compositions with amazing speed. And when I’m on my 4th design project of the day, it’s instinctual knowledge of what will work for my color choices is invaluable.
A screenshot of the plugin in action tells most of the story. A screenshot and the plugin are available at http://master-colors.com. There are both Mac and Windows versions. Cost is 49.95-99.95. Demo downloads are avaiable.
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