Color Stream

Excellent app for on the go color scheme ideas. Very easy to email yourself or others your created palettes.<br/>Only problem I've run into is when creating a palette from scratch it fails to save the palette. Still, you cant beat the price on this one if you are a designer and like to come up with color schemes anytime you want.

this is a gorgeous, gorgeous app that's fun to use, albeit with several, baffling limitatons. it has the dubious distinction of being one of the most beautiful apps in the store, while also suffering from a number of glaring omissions:<br/><br/>• the flickr search and email feature are wi-fi only; no 3G. (but why? this doesn't make sense.)<br/><br/>• there's absoultely *no* documentation in the app (nor in the app store's description) to inform us that those features are wi-fi only. (and because of that, i wasted 10 minutes trying to get the above features to work on 3G.)<br/><br/>• there are &quot;save&quot; buttons on two, different pages, and they're constantly enabled (blue), even after you've just saved! after saving, the save button(s) should be grayed out until the pallette's modified again. i find myself constantly hitting save, because there's no visual indicator that a pallette has not been modified since it was last saved.<br/><br/>• there's no undo. (how about shake to undo? and multiple levels of it?) if you like a pallette, but want to experiment with it, you have to first memorize/write down/take a screenshot of the current color-values, because once you touch one of those sliders, there's no other way to get back.<br/><br/>• there's no easy way to find basic colors. while showing the app to a friend, i offered to create a pallette for him. he'd call out a color, and i had a lot of trial-and-error with the sliders, trying to find his specific color. eventually, i suppose one begins to learn the &quot;recipes&quot; for various colors. but for nonprofessionals, that's a lot of work. a simple grid of common colors -- just as starting points -- would be extremely helpful.<br/><br/>• you can't change the order of pallettes.<br/><br/>• you can't change the order of colors within a pallette. (why not tap and drag a color to swap it with other colors?<br/><br/>• when generating a pallette from a photo, it would be nice to have a &quot;reload&quot; button to force color stream to look for different colors. it would also be nice to be able to tap and &quot;lock&quot; any of the 5, found colors that we like, so that only the others are replaced when tapping &quot;reload.&quot;<br/><br/>• the &quot;info&quot; button (a circle containing a letter &quot;i&quot;) is the incorrect button for the purpose it serves. we're not getting information on a pallette; we're performing actions. instead, it should be the little &quot;gear&quot; icon -- to indicate &quot;settings&quot; and &quot;actions.&quot;<br/><br/>i hope these issues will be addressed in an update, very soon.

Being a designer I have bought and used most of the color apps available. This is the best. It is also an elegantly designed application. A pleasure to look at and use. It is one of those apps that you show off to friends who are considering buying an iPhone. I did a search to see if the developer had created other applications. I hope he creates more apps soon. He's very talented.

Since I've gotten this app a few hours ago, I've spent a ton of time on it. Not doing work mind you, but just messing around with the sliders and saving them to my photo library. Great app!

Easy to use. Great tool for a designer on the go. You never know when inspiration may strike!

This app is very much geared towards designers that need to have a library of palettes at their disposal and tend to get inspired by a color combination at all times of the day. You enter a color, either through a slider set with either RGB or CMYK or through the camera / photo library and then you manually select colors to coordinate with it. It gives you five swatches to build the palette out of. When creating a new palette, you can use the scheme such as complementaries, analogous, etc.<br/><br/>Pros: <br/>-Easy to use and took about 10m to explore all features.<br/><br/>-The most common schemes are built in, though more options than the built-in five would be preferable.<br/><br/>-Palette sorting ability<br/><br/>-Palette sharing<br/><br/>Cons:<br/>-If you take a photo with a color you're interested in, I could not find a way to use that as the basis for a scheme (see the split complementaries for it, for example.) This is an app killer as that is the purpose I got the app in the first place. A work-around is to memorize the hex code for the color and then build a palette in the scheme view with it as the base, but that's a lot of extra work for something that should be built into the app.<br/><br/>-There is no associated web-resourced palette library, you can see images using something close to your intended palette with Multicolr, but you cannot peruse other's submitted palettes<br/><br/> - Palette sharing is only over email and not between Color Stream apps. In other words, the developer did not associate a URL scheme that could then be associated with Color Stream is it was received by an iOS device. It sounds more complicated than it is but it would allow for easy palette sharing.<br/><br/>Some other issues, such as not having control of the Apple camera's auto-white-balance (which is really over-the-top) aren't under the developers control.

Pros: Great offline color app for designers. You can save palettes from photos or make your own. Easy import to library for email or xfer later.<br/><br/>Cons: A few crash bugs. Occasionally misses the major color focus in a picture. <br/><br/>One note: Touching the numbers on the sliders does bring up the num pad to change the value by hand, but this is broken. The &quot;save&quot; button changes to &quot;done&quot;, implying that you must touch &quot;done&quot; to remove the num pad. The &quot;done&quot; button never changed back to &quot;save&quot; when you hit it and you wind up losing changes. Found this bug on ios 4 on 3GS.

No way to enter hex values manually. You have to use the touchy sliders and hope you didn't have too<br/>Much caffeine.