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Chameleon – Adobe Kuler Color Theme Browser
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Assists you to browse through color themes obtained from Adobe Kuler. Dynamically link any color property within your comp to a color of the color theme. If you select another color theme, all linked colors in your comp update automatically to the new color theme.
Features:
- Develop your motion graphics based on some Adobe kuler color theme and once you are finished see how it looks with a different one. Simply load a new color theme and your entire composition updates automatically.
- Do color correction based on Adobe kuler color themes by pushing highlights, midtones and shadows towards different colors of your color theme.
- Your projects still work on machines where the script is not installed.
Tutorial:
You can watch a tutorial explaining Chameleon on aetuts+.
How does it work?
Chameleon allows you to conveniently work with color themes from Adobe kuler in 3 steps.
- Load color themes in After Effects either from color themes downloaded at the kuler website or via cut and paste from the kuler desktop application
- Apply any loaded color theme to your comp with just one click
- Dynamically link any color property within your comp to a color theme color. Once you load a new color theme, all linked color properties in your comp update accordingly.
Version History:
- 2.0 Updated interface, automatic update check, ability to link to themes of other comps, support of large color themes, ability to load set of default color themes on start-up, reset for brightness slider – December 2010
- 1.0 Initial release on aescripts.com – October 2009
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hola una pregunta como puedo descargar el chamaleon, tengo el kuler, pero no puedo descargar el script del chameleon, please si pudieran ayudarme please. les agradesco de ante mano. saludos desde peru.
What a great idea! And even better that you’ve made it work!
This is killer. Thank you so much!
This is great, Mathias. I just added a link to the script and the tutorial here:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AfterEffects/9.0/WS5822310e5111fa1a-75af62a61239623aad8-8000.html
Remember that you can do the same whenever you post a new script or tutorial.
this has got to be one of the coolest ideas for a script, especially because it updates all the colors automatically. BIG UP
thanks~ you are cool!~~
Matthias,
I just downloaded this great script. Now I don’t have to panic anymore because my colors
match.
This is by far a very good and solid idea.
Tim
Antwerp-Belgium
Hi Mattthias,
ich habe jetzt eine Kleinigkeit gesponsort… aber download? nix is.
Was tun? Schickst du mir die Scripts per mail?
Grü
Sorry.. der link kamper mail… habs nciht gechekct. Danke! Hat sich erledigt
Wenn irgendetwas mit einem Download nicht klappen sollte (falsche Mailadresse angegeben oder so), kannst du es auch einfach noch einmal “kaufen” und den Preis auf 0 setzen. Ist auch gut, falls es dir einmal verloren gehen sollte oder updates gibt.
Hallo Mathias,
habe das Skript erstanden und ein kleines Problem.
Ich habe bis vor kurzem noch mit einer englischen Version von AFX CS4 gearbeitet.
Aus unerklärlichen Gründen hat sie die Sprache auf Deutsch umgestellt und bestimmte Expressions versteht er nicht mehr. In diesem Fall erkennt die Klasse “Effect” nicht die Methode “Color”, weil die Methode, so denke ich “Farbe” heissen muss.
Ich kann zwar per Hand das Wort ändern, aber wenn ich die Farbe dann wechsele, muss ich es wieder verbessern.
Weisst du wie ich die Sprache wieder umstellen kann, oder muss etwas im Skript der jeweiligen Sprachversion angepasst werden.
Ansonsten muss ich sagen, superklasse Arbeit … und Gruss aus dem schönen Potsdam
ich habe gerade radikal alles aus dem Ordner zdictionaries gelöscht und kann jetzt glücklich und zufrieden wieder mit einer englischen Version arbeiten. . .
Läuft wieder alles bestens…
Gruss Somer
Thanks so much for this. It’s really helping to push my projects to the next level. I’m recommending it to friends.
Awesome idea of implementation. You did a great job. Thanks a lot!
Hi Mathias,
Excellent idea and execution, works great.
Here’s a thought and/or suggestion. Maybe when I learn more about scripting I will undertake this myself.
What about a version that instead of generating a color theme layer within the comp, generated a master comp called “Color Theme Master,” put the color theme null there and linked colors to that, regardless of the comp where the color was being inserted. That way the color theme could be applied / updated project-wide. In my short time working with Chameleon I have often wished I could do this, since many times my colored layers are embedded in pre-comps, etc.
Again, just a thought. Maybe down the line if I get better at scripting I’ll try this myself. Or maybe you as an advanced programmer already know some reasons why this approach would cause more headaches than solutions.
Meantime, thanks for a great script and UI. Elegant and helpful.
Hi Declan,
thank you for this idea! At the moment I don
Hi Mathias
Firstly thanks for this amazing script. My only problem at the moment is that although I input my colour swatches and am able to use them without a problem when I save my project the swatches are not saved. When I next open the project I have to re import the settings. This isn’t a huge problem but I wondered if there is a work around?
all the best
Richard
Hi Richard,
currently there is no work around, but I will consider to implement the feature in future versions.
Best
Mathias
Hi,
I’m doing a smaller script that should be close to photoshop’s swatch panel. I got really inspired by your import ASE function. As also found a bug in the ASE spec file, so I did modify your function to make sure it works around. would you like me to send me the modification ?
I believe yours got problem with some Gray type.
cheers,
Yes, that would be great! Can you also explain, what exactly goes wrong? You can send me a mail to mmohl@gmx.de
Concerning a more lightweight color theme script: Do you know the swatchYouWant script by Jeff Almasol?
no I actually don’t know about this script, is it here ?
I’m sending you a mail right now
Hi, you can download swatchYouWant in this bundle here for free:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&extid=1242019
You might also take a look at the “Related Work” section of Chameleon on my blog:
http://aextensions.blogspot.com/2009/10/chameleon-adobe-kuler-color-theme.html
ok I got it ! I was going to same he got the same bug, but looking at the code I guess you got your function from that script too.
So maybe the bug only happen on my computer, but that’s weird.
You can make a try going to kuler, create a new swatch (don’t forget to select Lab instead of RGB), export the ASE. If I’m not mistaken it will only appear as white square in your script with a value > 1.0000e
nice script. definitely will come in handy.
I have 1 request/question:
If I open up ase files that were created for other apps like AI, they show up in the chamelon window as horizontal and the window is half the width of my cinema display. Can you please add a feature so we can define how the color swatches are displayed? Maybe can set how many colors are shown horizontally before there is a line break. It would be even more handy if we had a slider to adjust this on the fly
Thanks
D
Thank you for the suggestion! I will consider this for the next version comming soon…
hi ,
its a gr8 product . how can i download for my personal use
regards
divya
Click on the blue “Add to Card Button”. You can change the price to whatever you want.
Hi Mathias,
thank you for the great script! Here some suggestions for a future version:
1. highlight the currently applied theme (now it is quite difficult to remember after a while)
2. make the Brightness slider editable, i.e. allow for editing the number; makes it a lot easier to set it back to zero
3. add a reset button to the brightness slider; makes it even more easy to get back to zero ; )
Kind regards,
Andreas
Hi Andreas,
these are very good suggestions. Point 1 cannot be realized properly, since the script cannot detect when you change the currently active comp (and then the highlighting should be updated). But I will consider points 2 and/or 3 in the next updates.
thanx for the script, thanx thank you very much MATHIAS MOHL……cool script…..
Thank you,It’s cool
How do you get it to show inside your effects panel. Mine just opens as a separate window when I open the script.
See here how to install it as a panel: http://vimeo.com/15978374