Color Stream iPhone App Review

Basically, Color Stream is an iPhone and iPod touch app for creating color palettes. This app allows you to generate new color palettes from photographs taken from your iPhone or even using photographs on hand in your device. This app even lets you to custom generate and edit color palettes from zero with amazing built – in color schemes.

First of all, when you launch the Color Stream app on your iPhone you will be presented with three options. Tapping on the color palette icon will manually create a new palette. You can select a pattern from a list that includes Triadic, Split Complementary, Complementary, Analogous, and Monochromatic. From the sliders, you can select the right color and even change between CMYK or RGB. This app updates the five colors located in the lower portion of the screen in real time whenever you change the sliders to give you the final result. When you are finished, simply tap on the save button to save the palette. Then tap on the “I” button for more options such as naming the palette, give it a star rating, save it as a photograph on your Camera Roll or even send it as an email to someone. Also you can tap the browser icon to observe the color matched photographs at ideeinc.com based on your palette. The list of palettes can be categorized by the creation date, rating and also the name.

The most beneficial and useful feature of this app is its automatic palette generation using photos. For every designer, producing a color scheme based on real photographs is an excellent and powerful method of presenting relevancy to your work. The Color Stream app makes this process quite simple. Simply take a photograph, then scale and move the photo to where your selected colors are at and simply tap to use it. Color Stream generates five colors from this photograph and creates a new palette for the user. From this, you can then just tap on any color you prefer; tap anywhere on a photograph and the app simply alters that specific color to match the color of your choice. This is an excellent feature for users who wish to have more control over the selection process.

All in all, Color Stream is an amazing app for users that wish to generate color palettes from a mobile device. This app is especially useful for designers from every field. It is great to use this app for production and experimental purposes too. This app may be a bit pricey but it is well worth the cost considering the benefits.