Color Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Sneak Peek: ColorSchemer Studio 2, pick your palette

by Brett Terpstra (Nov 24th, 2009)

As part of my trade, I work a lot with colors. ColorSchemer Studio has long been a valuable tool in my toolkit for picking out color schemes based on solid color theory. It had its shortcomings, though, and some other tools had surpassed it, both on the desktop and on the iPhone. However, I got a ...

Apple posts two new updates

by Joachim Bean (Oct 23rd, 2009)

Just days after all the hardware updates on Tuesday, Apple has posted two new support downloads. The first, Pro Applications Update 2009-01, contains several updates for applications in Final Cut Studio. This update includes Final Cut Pro 7.0.1, Motion 4.0.1, Soundtrack Pro 3.0.1, Color 1.5.1, ...

Pantone offers color libraries for iPhone, mostly

by Robert Palmer (Sep 21st, 2009)

While it's been in the App Store for the last few days, Pantone is officially launching its color discovery and management app for iPhone today, called myPANTONE. The Pantone Matching System, among other Pantone products, is the indispensable color system for printers and graphic designers, and it ...

Developer Color Picker: For your pickiest developer

by Robert Palmer (Jul 17th, 2009)

Wade Cosgrove, code ninja over at Panic, has released a freeware Developer Color Picker that helps developers of all stripes pick and paste color declarations for a variety of languages. Any color picker will let you choose a color from anywhere on your screen, but Developer Color Picker turns that ...

New MBP offers top display quality, but some beg to differ

by Michael Rose (Jul 4th, 2009)

For pro photographers who care about color fidelity on a laptop screen, there's good news from Rob Galbraith on the revamped MacBook Pro line: the new laptops offer improved color performance, which Rob's review describes as "better colour accuracy than any Apple laptop we've profiled ...

Just announced: La Cie blue eye pro Monitor Calibrator Proof Edition

by Steven Sande (Mar 24th, 2009)

A lot of us might not care that the color on our screens doesn't precisely match reality, but for most designers color matching is a crucial part of their work. That's why they use monitor calibration systems like the new La Cie blue eye pro Proof Edition (US$429.99) to make sure that what they see ...

Pro Applications Update improves performance and stability

by Robert Palmer (Nov 21st, 2008)

Apple has released Pro Applications Update 2008-04, which includes updates to Final Cut Pro, Compressor, Color, DVD Studio Pro, Cinema Tools, Motion, Soundtrack Pro and Shake. The update, according to Apple, "addresses general performance issues and improves overall stability." No specific details ...

First Look: cliqcliq Colors

by Brett Terpstra (Oct 22nd, 2008)

Colors is a palette generator and editor for the iPhone and iPod touch which updated yesterday to version 1.1 with new features which make it a truly useful tool for working with those hues, tints and shades we come across every day. Colors is primarily directed at web designers and those working ...

TUAW Poll: What's your favorite nano-chromatic color?

by Steven Sande (Sep 10th, 2008)

Apple gave us a juicy spectrum of colors yesterday with the new iPod nano, and I find myself wondering which color I'd buy. I really like the green and yellow, simply because they're bright, happy colors. I also like the Denver Broncos (or is it University of Texas?) orange and the Colorado ...

Custom "Stealth iPhone" from ColorWare

by Brett Terpstra (Apr 28th, 2008)

If you're willing to go the extra mile (and paycheck) to customize your gadgets, but you're not a big fan of the flashy ColorWare colors that we've covered before, the new custom edition matte black iPhone (Stealth iPhone) may be the ticket. ColorWare has been making drastic hue adjustments on ...

ColorWare does the Air

by Brett Terpstra (Feb 22nd, 2008)

Macs, in general, have always been works of art compared to their rivals, and the MacBook Air is a pinnacle achievement in the line of lust-worthy Apple computers. There's just never been a lot of color choice in the Apple's lineup. For the audacious souls who choose to express their personality ...

A color toolbox

by Brett Terpstra (Jan 31st, 2008)

There are quite a few OS X applications and plugins available to make life easier for Mac-loving designers of any ilk. I'd like to highlight a few that have earned a place my heart (or my color picker). Most of these tools apply to any 2D designer, whether you make websites, interfaces or spend ...

How to tweak the Leopard Dock's color

by Mike Schramm (Oct 30th, 2007)

Earlier, I posted about how you can revert those new lights in Leopard's Dock back to Tiger's old triangles (and I can't say I was too surprised to find out that most of you didn't want to revert anything-- do what feels right, man), and I said that the next thing to go would be Leopard's shiny ...

Found Footage: Apple TV Composite Hack in Full Color

by Erica Sadun (Oct 8th, 2007)

Apple Hacker Mauricio Pastrana discovered a way to export composite video from his Apple TV in full color. He gives all the details in this handy YouTube tutorial. Normally, when you use composite out from AppleTV, you're limited to black and white video from the green channel. Instead, if you plug ...

20" iMac LCD color problems?

by Mat Lu (Sep 12th, 2007)

Okay this one is a little shaky because my French is non-existent. But in this post (Google translation) at the French Mac site MacBidouille, they present evidence that the LCD panel in the new 20" iMacs is not a 24bit color panel as in the previous generation, but an 18bit panel instead. Support ...