Making Your Color Scheme a Whole Lot Kuler!

on Apr 14th 2011 with 41 comments
Tutorial Details

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

This tutorial was originally posted in October 2009 and we thought we’d jump back into the archives here for “Color Grading Week” to take a look at this handy script from Mathias Möhl.

Adobe Kuler is a great resource for color themes that is perfectly integrated in all Adobe CS4 software – except for After Effects. But this has changed now. In this tutorial, Mathias Möhl shows how you can use his brand-new script “Chameleon – The Adobe Kuler Color Theme Browser” to work with Kuler color themes in After Effects. Apply a new color theme with just one click and all colors of your composition update automatically.

… just so you know, the new version (2.0) of Chameleon has some features not shown in the tutorial:

  • ability to link to themes of other comps (i.g. precomps can use the color theme of their parent comps instead of having their own)
  • support of large color themes
  • ability to load set of default color themes on start-up
  • reset for brightness slider

Tutorial

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File size 132MB

 
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  • Rahul

    Cool..

  • http://www.vimeo.com/burningchariottv Ben Morgan

    haven’t watched the tut yet, but I’m glad to see Kuler getting a mention. It’s such an awesome tool, something that all of us should have in our arsenal.

  • ka

    realy nice plugin + tut

  • mike

    Very Cool, Thank You

  • illd

    Very nifty solution and well explained tutorial. I think this will be handy in situations with a close deadline. But it won`t win a design price with its automatic colour distribution ;). Iit´s really great that its possible to import more than one schemes – great timesaver, thank you Mathias.

  • http://www.sternfx.com Eran Stern

    Mathias, This is a fantastic tool – good work and very clever thinking of the various possibilities, I salute you :)

  • Sal

    Mathias,

    Thank you very much for a wonderful plugin and for this marvelous tutorial. You are an excellent teacher. I can not believe how much I learned from this one tutorial. I love how you combined two tuts and created practically a whole color correction application.

    Again Thank you

  • http://www.gutsblow.com/ Satya Meka

    Great! Now I can submit mine too…ha ha

    • Mathias Möhl
      Author

      Yes, I am really courious and looking forward to it! :-)

  • http://www.motionworks.com.au John Dickinson

    Nice work Mathias, this will be very useful. Best wishes, John Dickinson

  • http://www.kreativedomain.com Chris Martin

    Way to go Mathias! Very clever…

  • http://inerxia.net Carlo

    Thanks Mathias.
    This have been a missing feature in AE for so long!
    Love the shuffle buttons.

  • Will

    This sounds like something I’ve been looking for…for ages! Sure would come in handy in many a project.

  • http://www.icecavetechnology.com/ Craig

    Very, VERY useful.

    Thank you!

  • Massfocus

    This is just Brilliant work! ! ! ! ….

  • ckRED

    Fantastic! I used to relate to a Kuler color scheme in AE but I always had to do manual color picking and save each layout to get back to it in case I changed to another color theme, this will totally change workflow!! Thanks Mathias, awesome!

  • LD

    Very cool. So much better than taking the long way around like I used to!
    Thanks!!!

  • Vikash Verma

    Well i am still learning…… But thx……..

  • Jan

    sweet! thanks a lot, thats gonna save a lot of time!

  • wesamnet

    good work

  • http://www.monkeybusters.de peter lerche

    super sache ! auf so ein “plugin” hab ich gewartet. gute idee. (aber dachte bisher immer kuler würde sich wie colour sprechen?”
    grüße und mehr von solchen scripts ! :)

  • http://www.youtube.com.br/ianhpiratao IANH – BR

    interesting…

  • heezo

    Funny. I always pronounced it “color”, not “cooler”

  • Klas

    Great stuff!!
    I always use kuler…this will really make the workflow easier.

    Thanks Mathias for a brilliant script and a great tutorial.

    //Klas

  • Tom Ellingsen

    Man, this will be freakishly helpful for motion graphics. Thanks a lot, Mathias! You da MAN! :P

  • Ross

    I have been waiting for this, Thank you!… Does this work with CS3

    • Mathias Möhl
      Author

      Yes, it works with CS3/CS4 and both Win/MacOS.

  • Sparrow

    Great stuff for image modifications and editing… for purists like me, this is a very good opportunity to learn things. Thanks.

  • Loay Emad

    It’s amazing but I thought from the beginning that it’s a free Script but It’s actually not.
    anyways, Thanks

    • Mathias Möhl
      Author

      If is “pay what you want”. If you want to pay nothing, change the price to 0$. So it is free. Anyway, if youo like it and want to invite me to a beer, change the price to the price of a beer and not to 0$ :-)

  • Nate

    i loaded it, gave it the right folder, followed instructions and then opened Ae. How do I get the Kuler window to open in Ae? I have the desktop Kuler open I just need the Kuler in Ae to appear somehow. thanks

    • http://www.vimeo.com/everettoptions Adam Everett Miller

      Did you actually run the script?

    • Mathias Möhl
      Author

      If the script is in the script is in the scriptUI panels folder, you can open the script window over the window menue (in the last entries of the window menue)

  • Edshoe

    Very useful in motion graphics and any artiste dealing with it has to have this great tool!

  • http://www.kempersolid.com Michael Kemper

    This is a great use of kuler! Always happy to see others creating new fun stuff with that app. Thanks!

  • crumpy

    Thanks, Mathias. Another really useful script for the tool box. I was a little bummed that we can’t open the Kuler extension in AE like you can in other CS4 products. So this remedies half the problem. Thanks.

  • Edward

    This seems to be efficient and time-saving,as well as very nifty and being upto tasks. Having Kuler will definitely give a boost to my work!

  • http://www.escapestudios.com/blog/tag/3d-animation-tutorials CG tutorials

    I am a big fan of all your tutorials and everything. It has helped me a lot so far, and I plan to take up Film Editing and Special Effects as a career. Well, great work man!

  • mohammed sariful islam

    thanks for your nice tutorials.

  • http://robertwojo.com Robert

    Great job, there has been a plugin similar to this but not as powerful. Thanks heaps for releasing it.

  • http://bonfx.com Douglas

    This little script for Photoshop is fun for inspiration. It creates multi-color gradients, which allow you to explore a little more freely in the “inbetweens” where a lot of interesting color play happens:

    http://bonfx.com/gorgeous-random-color-scheme-gradient-generator-for-photoshop/