Color Pickers
I’m a programmer not a designer, and although I know good design when I see it, I have not talent for creating graphic design elements. One of the areas that gives me the most headaches is choosing colors. Once I get past using black text on an appropriately contrasty background, I’m lost.
I’ve relied on color pickers for quite some time to choose color schemes for sites I’m putting together, but I’ve never found one that is as robust as Kuler. Adobe seems to be employing some new ideas related to user interactions with their products. Lightroom doesn’t resemble a typical application so much as it does a different computing environment, and Kuler continues that trend with an intuitive and useful interface that doesn’t seem different for different’s sake.