HVC Color Composer (for InDesign Users)

Every two weeks Quark VS InDesign​.com and XChange International gives away 2 great prizes–an extra­or­di­nary xten­sion for QuarkXPress and an incred­i­ble InDesign plug-in. All you have to do to win is…

• Become a Quark VS InDesign​.com mem­ber (free), and;
• Throw your name into the give­away hat at the bot­tom of this page.

That’s all. No pur­chase or song and dance nec­es­sary. A win­ner will be cho­sen at ran­dom from those who enter on this page.

This con­test has end­ed. On 2008-02-10 we gave
HVC Color Composer from MasterColors
To mark l. of benoni, gaut­eng south africa

Congratulations, mark! Get some prizes for your­self on our Contests & Giveaways page.

The Photoshop Plug-In We Gave Away This Time

HVC Color Composer
Photoshop Plug-In from MasterColors

The HVC Color Composer plug-in to Adobe Photoshop presents a unique per­cep­tu­al HVC hue, val­ue, and chro­ma colour space which is a nat­ur­al, intu­itive way for artists and design­ers to use colour. Simply start with one or more base project colours, enter your desired palette set­tings and the HVC Color Composer will auto­mat­i­cal­ly gen­er­ate palettes that work per­fect­ly with those colours. Color Composer offers ful­ly dynam­ic con­trol over Depth and Contrast set­tings for gen­er­at­ed palettes.

HVC Color Composer is an enhanced ver­sion of Photoshop¹s own Color Picker, allow­ing you to switch between the enhanced colour pick­er and the basic colour pick­er at any time through Photoshop¹s pref­er­ences. HVC Color Composer has all of the fea­tures as the Photoshop colour pick­er and in the same basic lay­out so it will be com­plete­ly famil­iar to any Photoshop user.

Color Composer lets you eas­i­ly nar­row or widen the palette results dynam­i­cal­ly to gen­er­ate as many or as few com­ple­men­tary colours as you desire. The plug-in ends the tedious and some­times seem­ing­ly impos­si­ble task of cre­at­ing colour com­bi­na­tions that work well togeth­er. The palettes that are gen­er­at­ed are unique, vibrant, inter­est­ing arrays of colour that users would not be able to find using any oth­er meth­ods, not even by end­less­ly flip­ping through pro­fes­sion­al design swatch or palette books. Yet the palettes have actu­al sig­nif­i­cance to a design­er’s cur­rent project spec­i­fi­ca­tions. The palettes can be saved into Photoshop Swatch for­mat files and then opened in the Swatch palette for easy and con­ve­nient use. This allows design­ers to work in an intu­itive way where they can focus on the work in progress. HVC Color Composer Professional insures that every­one can intu­itive­ly cre­ate unlim­it­ed, pow­er­ful, inter­est­ing colour com­po­si­tions with amaz­ing speed.

For Photoshop CS, CS2, and CS3