In fact, it’s so natural that when I chose one pixel in an organic image, it generated other colors that already existed within that image.

To create a palette, first you decide how many swatches you want GenoPal to generate: 4, 16, 85, or 510. Then, you click on any pixel on your display—inside a picture or document, on a webpage, or within the usual color pickers. GenoPal then generates a color palette. If you click or move one of GenoPal’s sliders, a new set of colors is generated. You can “lock” swatches you want to keep, and GenoPal will create new colors only for the remaining swatches. Repeat this process a few times, and you’ll have a palette generated specifically for your project.

The sliders let you control the color difference between the swatches, and also their difference in lightness. This changes the way the colors relate to each other in both saturation and contrast, giving you fluid control over the generation of hundreds of different color schemes. You can save the palette either as an image file or in ACO format to import into Adobe applications. You can also drag any swatch into the Foreground and Background color swatches in Adobe applications, or use the numerical values to build colors in other applications.

f you need to choose colors for a print or Web layout, GenoPal is $25 well spent.

Mac system requirements: Mac OSX 10.3 and higher; a Mac running at 500MHz or better, 256MB of RAM, 5MB of free hard disk space and a dispaly supporting at least 16-bit colors.

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Macsimum rating: 8 out of 10