March 18, 2008

Adobe kuler RIA adds new capabilities

A new version of kuler, Adobe’s popular rich Internet application for color exploration and sharing, has just launched.  New features:

• Use color extraction to quickly and automatically generate a color theme from any uploaded photo or other image. Explore different moods, such as bright or muted, to see different colors, or drag the markers to select colors. [Hit "Create" over in the left-hand navigation, then select "From an Image" at upper-left.]
• Endless favorites: Now save as many themes as you like, and browse them in your Mykuler area
• Browse by Random (randomly selected) themes, in addition to Highest Rated, Newest, and Most Popular

Enjoy! [Via Sami Iwata]

New Illustrated Hotness

• Goofing on cartoons:
  • Garfield Minus Garfield is totally weirdly brilliant. [Via]
  • Some Old Man Still Churning Out Marmaduke, reports The Onion. "’I love what I do,’ said the elderly cartoonist, his body and mind crippled by an endless and repetitive stream of doodles featuring the Great Dane."
• Know your history:
  • Billboard’s got the 25 Best Rock Posters of All Time. [Via]
  • Pay up, suckers!  Gene Gable finds cool vintage artwork for shaking the money tree.  Reminds me of Jesse James’s palm (clearer view).
  • Worth1000 features excellent vintage ads for modern products. [Via]
  • Fancy a Victorian DeLorean?  Peep Silhouette Masterpiece Theater. [Via]
• Chroma police:
  • "PixelPastry oozes fresh flavours, tastes that entice tastebuds and well fed clients." I’m inclined to agree. [Via]
• Pablo Bisoglio’s work vibrates with color.  I dig this dragon in particular. [Via]
• Pedro Franz sings the eyeball electric.  (Okay, that doesn’t mean anything.  But you try coming up with 50 unique ways to say, "Hey, here’s a cool site I think you’ll like." ;-P)
• The Bible has been reimagined as a graphic novel.
• Dig this well crafted bit of digital imaging for San Patrignano. [Via]