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Kuler.adobe.com is a color scheme designer tool that is available on the Adobe website. The tool allows the user to create a color scheme from a base color, from an image, from several pre-defined themes, or from themes provided by the Adobe community. Rules can be applied to the color scheme, including Analogous, Monochromatic, Triad, Complementary, Compound or Shades. Each scheme consists of five colors, and each color can be adjusted manually using a color wheel and sliders for red, green and blue values. The tools returns the RGB, HSV, CMYK, LAB and HEX values for each color.

Users can save their color schemes with a title and can assign tags to them. The color scheme designer tool is written in Adobe Flash and can be used in any browser with the Adobe Flash plugin. Themes can be browsed by newest, most popular, highest rating or random. Users can also perform a keyword search for themes based on the tags assigned to them by the users who created the theme. Clicking on a theme in the search list brings up a list of tags associated with the theme along with any user comments that have been left about the theme by other users. Users may add a comment about any theme.

Kuler.adobe.com was launched by Adobe Software in 2009. The site is part of the main Adobe site, and separate metrics for the Kuler application are not available.

Competition to Kuler.adobe.com comes from sites such as Colorschemedesigner.com. Colorschemedesigner.com offers a similar service to Kuler.adobe.com, but has more features. One useful feature at Colorschemedesigner.com is the ability to view a web page based on the current color scheme. Also, Colorschemedesigner.com has the ability to create a CSS style sheet from a theme.

The site is quite responsive, and changes made in the color scheme designer are reflected immediately. The site takes a few seconds to load the Flash application when first visiting the site, but after that page loads are quite responsive. There is no advertising displayed on the Kuler.adobe.com site.

Registration to the main Adobe site is free and is required to save color schemes or to comment on them. The registration process asks for username, password, email address, first and last name, country, city, state and zip code. Validation of the email address is not required.

There is no premium membership offered to the Adobe.com site, and users with a free account have access to all features of the site.

Kuler.adobe.com is recommended to graphics designers and web page designers who need to create a color scheme for a project. The tool is very easy to use, and produces excellent results. Also, a large number of existing themes are available which could be used in the user's project.

• Users can create a color scheme based on an initial color or an image
• A number of different rules can be applied to the color scheme
• Individual colors can be adjusted using a color wheel and slider for red, green and blue values
• RGB, CYMK, HSV, LAB and HEX numbers are provided for each color in the scheme
• There are a large number of saved schemes which can be adjusted or used as-is
• Registered users can save their color schemes and comment on the color schemes designed by others

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