Painter's Picker
a color wheel for Mac artists
Quickly find the colors that best match your design.
Create and share harmonious color schemes in almost any Macintosh application.
Have a color wheel handy whenever you need it.
If you've ever mixed paint in school or looked at a color chart in an optometrist's office, then you're familiar with the kind of color wheel that Painter's Picker gives you.
If you've stood in a paint store looking at swatches and wondered how to find 2, 3 or 4 colors that will look right together in your living room, then you'll appreciate Painter's Picker's system for choosing color schemes.
If you've used other color wheel programs for Mac OS X, but disliked having to open another application and interrupt your workflow just to choose a color, then you'll like how much easier Painter's Picker is to use. It just appears right in your color picker.
With Painter's Picker you can:
* use an artist's color wheel in almost any Mac OS X application that uses color
* quickly access the 12 traditional primary, secondary, and tertiary colors
* easily choose any color in between these 12 colors
* get to common tints and shades quickly, or choose any in between value
* blend your colors to gray simply using a slider or a menu
* get to the most common tones of a color with one click
* quickly find and select any color's complementary color
* find out which 2 colors clash most with a given color
* see at a glance the recommended relative proportions of a color within a scheme
* find color relationships using more than 20 different kinds of color scheme:
* 5 kinds of analogous scheme
* 5 kinds of tetradic scheme
* 2 kinds of triad
* 4 complex complementary schemes
* schemes to show colors that are warmer, cooler, lighter or darker than a given color
* and more
* use colors chosen with the other color pickers Mac OS X provides
* choose a color then pass it on to any other color picker
* save your color schemes as color lists for later use
* use colors chosen with the color picker's magnifying glass
* drag & drop colors within Painter's Picker or with other applications
* fine tune your color selection using decimal precision
* adjust your color selection using the scroll wheel
* use mathematical expressions to calculate color values
* even with radians...
* find the nearest web-safe color for a given color
* switch easily between RGB, CMYK and Web Safe color spaces
* work with CMYK colors using a RYB color wheel
* use a RGB color wheel instead of RYB, if you feel the urge
System Requirements:
Painter's Picker requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later and will appear in the color picker dialog of any application that uses Apple's color picker.
Some applications, like Adobe Photoshop or Macromedia Freehand, require some special steps to get them to work.
Other applications will unfortunately not work with Painter's Picker.
Painter's Picker is compatible with 10.4, and 10.5 and will run on any Macintosh with a G4, G5 or Intel processor.
Snow Leopard:
Painter’s Picker is compatible with 32-bit applications in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. It will load in any compatible 32-bit application in Snow Leopard.
What's new with Painter's Picker 2.2
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Painter's Picker now supports custom color spaces (such as color spaces that derive from color profiles). It will accept them, work within them, and report them to the user.
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Painter's Picker now officially requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later
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Fixed a problem where Leopard would not report Painter's Picker's name correctly in the fly-away menu of the color picker
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Some UI redesign
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updated website information within the program
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improved the ability to paste the registration code into the registration dialog
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hopefully fixed an incompatibility with GL Golf
To see earlier changes, please read Painter's Picker's release notes.
Painter's Picker is shareware
If you use Painter's Picker regularly, then we ask you to please register it.
To remind you to register, Painter's Picker will display a watermark around its color wheel. It will also on occasion display a registration dialog.
Of course, registered users of Painter's Picker 1.0 need not buy a new license for version 2.1, you can simply download Painter's Picker 2.1 and install it.
A single user license costs $19.95 USD
You can register Painter's Picker on our registration page.
Documentation & Support
To read the Painter's Picker documentation, click the question mark button on the bottom right of the color panel.
Painter's Picker's documentation is also available on its support page.
If you have questions that the documentation doesn't cover, then please feel free to contact Old Jewel Software by using our feedback form.
Contact
If you have a question, bug report, feature request, or anything else to say about Painter's Picker, please use our feedback form.
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