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Adobe Kuler and ColourLovers.com

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Came across this topic that talked about Kuler being ripped off from ColourLovers.com
I am not being biased with any group but i think both the interfaces do not match each other and their interactions are totally different.

I  first started out with Abobe Kuler, got the hang of creating themes sooner than ColourLovers.com
ColourLover.com seemed more community based with lot of things happening, which i really didnt have time to check out.

I just needed to create combinations and deploy them on my design at work and the time factor matters!!
Whenever i have some time or a break, i go back to re-edit the name and tags at Kuler.

I agree with the differences (comments) stated by Josh Chernoff on Chad Udell ‘s site that:

  1. colourlovers is more community based. forums and blogging and a better commenting rating system
  2. Kuler is more technical and logical. Provides CMYK, LAB and RGB with color theories and a over all a better color wheel).
  3. Kuler is more API friendly with a great deal of redevelopment emphasis.
  4. The web technologies are different. Kulers was in a way to provides a better understanding of Action Script’s capabilities as kuler surfaced just about the same time AS3 was introduced.

Fun with Adobe Kuler

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Working on Adobe Kuler has been quite an experience for me. Though i am a person who loves color, creating new themes was something i thought need major skills to come up with combinations!
Though i have done Color Theory in grad school, i still think you need to be a pro with colors to come up with breakthrough combinations with restrictions/constraints haunting your head.
So i played around on it for a while, didnt make any combinations public for obvious reasons.
Couple of months later i have edited and made them available publicly after checking out major funny combinations people have posted!
Hey you need a learning curve right? so from 6 combinations to 18 to 24 combos, 4 have been downloaded at least once, 1 twice, another 1 thrice and 1 has been downloaded five times….
hmm….not bad for a start i think :-P

So have you tried it yet?