Colour management

At WDL in one of the article I recently found discussion about colour management tools. Because I’m using one of these tools quite often I wanted to find out if there is some better tools I’m recently using. The criteria for this small test from my point of view was

1. Simple to use
2. Ability to export for Adobe tool (act)
3. Share with social community.

As a first online colour application was flash based “colour rotation” which in many cases wasn’t that good as I expected. Clunky selection and even main function which is rotation doesn’t really work. Export and management was good. Registration and using account was great – not sure about the typeface they choose for their visuals.

colorotate.org/

Another online application is well known KULLER which I personally like. Flash based application with direct connection with all your Adobe tools – nice, simple and easy. Moreover you can pick the style and colour as retro, classic, rave etc.

kuler

Color Scheme Designer – was nice and easy to use, even you have had a option to select your colours in actual layout which can helps beginners to imagine how the colour works in real environment. Easy to use – without any login and password.

colorschemedesigner.com/

Tucan – apart of rest of these online applications Tucan have had one bid advantage and it was sharing and socializing with Facebook, flickr and Picassa. There is no more to say for advanced secretary or design manager nice tool with a lot’s of features.

aviary.com/

Colormunki – is great for some one who is print based and need to know how to colour looks like on the screen and vice versa. CMYK value for different paper and different technology – is really useful.

colormunki.com/

Last application which I went through was color explorer. You have to watch a movie to understand how dos it works – well it say something already about product itself. Apart from that nice easy upload, fast recognizing of all colours in uploaded image. Matching and saving is erealy easy. Desktop oriented UI give us a bit of feeling as an application but in many interaction we are just back to WEB behaviour. Maybe next year we will see some improvement.

colorexplorer.com/

No chance that Colour Lovers is best (please take this as a personal review). Maybe I’m using Color Lovers almost 3 years so I’m a bit affected their UI and all account management but in the way hoe they manage all things together I as a user I’m completely happy

colourlovers.com/

Am I? well not really there is still something that can be better bu ‘m sure that all these guys bring something new in 2010

Hope it’s help. If you know or see other online applications please let me know. Would be great to know which is your favorite and why. Lets make this review a year later probably some of them will improve and some of them will just disappear.