Palette Wizard
Easily create or edit color palettes for your projects, replace colors in your images, sprites and designs.
If you’re an artist, game developer or web developer and you need to create a color palette
for your project quickly or edit one that you already have, then give this tool a try.
Palette Wizard allows you to create color palettes from scratch.
It will help you find analogous, complementary, and split-complementary colors and others with ease.
You can load any image and extract colors from it using the built-in extraction function,
then modify the palette as you wish.
Use magic pens to create color ramps with no time!
You can replace colors in the loaded image with colors created in the project and see the differences in real time.
You can also sort and organize colors using various sorting options
Supported palette formats: PAL Jasc, GPL Gimp, TXT Paint(dot)net, HEX, GML Game Maker Studio 1&2, ASE Adobe Swatch Exchange
Supported Image Formats: Loading: Png, Jpg, Jpeg Saving: Png
If you encounter any problems or have a suggestion/request, please describe them on community forum, DM me on Twitter or send me an e-mail.
Features:
- Create color ramps from two colors with ease. You can also slide all colors from ramp towards one of them using slider.
- Easy create random colors with different properties like (entirely random, randomize hue, randomize saturation, randomize value or random color which is close to current one).
- Easily create Analogous, Compliment, Split-Compliment, Triadic, Square, Tetriadic, Pentagram colors from existing ones (also works with multiple selected colors).
- Move colors as you like, select multiple and move multiple colors at once.
- Copy and paste individual colors or multiple of them. Colors are copied as HEX values so you can also copy/paste them from/to other programs.
- Duplicate colors (also works with multiple selected colors).
- Color picking by hand from loaded image or using draw picker.
- Color extraction from image. You can extract colors from any loaded image and you can set maximum colors to extract (16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512).
- You can replace colors in the loaded image with ones created in the project
- You can save images with replaced colors.
- Color pickers RGB, HSV, HSL, LAB, HCY’s, RGBs, HSVs, HSV/HSL Wheel (s means square)
- You can load palettes in the following formats: (PAL Jasc, GPL Gimp, TXT Paint(dot)net, HEX, GML Game Maker Studio 1&2), ASE Adobe Swatch Exchange
- You can save palettes in the following formats: (PAL Jasc, GPL Gimp, TXT Paint(dot)net, HEX, GML Game Maker Studio 1&2, PNG 8 px color squares), ASE Adobe Swatch Exchange
- Each menu or context menu option has its description on the bottom of the screen so you don’t need any manual.
- You can load/save project to edit it later.
- Free drawing using Magic Pen
- Color adjustment pens
- Multiple color sorting options by hue, saturation, value, lightness, chroma, luminance, red, green, blue
- Distance based color sorting by RGB*, HSV, HSL, HCY’, LAB distances
- Multiple color adjustments options
- Undo
- Color Blindness Emulation Tool (Three major disability types)
- Color Evolution Using Genetic Algorithm
- Color Evolution Using Cellular Automaton
- Magic Brush
Trailer music credits:
Stock Media provided by AZOVMUSIC / Pond5
Steam User 17
I love this tool ! There are so many elements of it's core design that I feel are BANG ON.
The kernal of the idea is brilliant and I'm excited to see how this will improve.
The colour extractions from images are excellent, the SORTING (omg! so cool to watch), swatch linking is probably the most impressive functionality for me and the tools for 'painting' effects on swatches is pretty slick.
This tool is a joy to work with.
It's early access, so obviously we're using a Beta ... It's got some room for improvement.
The "undo/redo situation" is probably the most annoying thing for me at the moment.
It needs to be smarter and less hostile to linked swatches.
For example, if you've got any colour swatches linked and you press ctrl-z once - BOOM!
it kills all the links but leaves the swatches behind.
Even if what you were undoing was completely un-related to the links.
Lack of keyboard shortcuts is mildly annoying for saving the project, linking swatches, etc
Quitting will not auto-save the work. If you don't use the menus to save, your work is lost.
Palette Wizard is very stable on my machine, but knowing I can lose my work at any time is nerve wracking.
Workspace should be much larger and it would be nice if you could set it to either "load last project" and/or "load empty" and/or "load Default".
Steam User 2
There is a lot here. However it feels like a tool made for someone who uses this for very specific things, and not so much a tool made for general use.
What I would really like to see is a way to repair pixel art with this. When you save your file the wrong way after hours of work and don't realize it until you open it up the next day and see all the color damage.
If that was added, this tool would be incredibly valuable!
Steam User 2
It's the best color palette tool I could find on Steam. It does have all the color generation tools you might wish for, can replace colors in images, can extract colors from images (does not work on all images satisfactory, but theres also a manual mode), super cool ways to combine in 2 dimensions. The only thing I wish was different is the black background which should be changeable, because dark colors get invisible. Or it should be grey, or being animated so you can always distinguish colors from background. Anyway: Recommended!