Great color selector – Designing for twitter

This week I finally decided to create a design for my twitter page. The twitter design set up is pretty striaght forward you make a background you upload it and bam. However, I wanted to go a step further, you know pull it all together with a few small touches. In the process I found a great color selector!

When you go to the design tab in twitter pretty much your only option is to change the background photo, however in the lower right sidebar there is a link to a tool called “themeleon” which is made by the folks at ColorLoves.com. Themeleon has one of the nicest color selection set ups around. It is very helpful and intuitive.

In Photoshop you only have the color grid and then a hue slider which you can change to slide the saturation or the value, with ColorLovers set up you get to see all three at once, it’s a small change and I didn’t think about it till after I was using it, saying to myself “this is easy.”

Another nice feature is the “similar color” set up, it’s simple and helpful and if I don’t want it I don’t have to use it.
And the last small touch that I used was the undone button, and it has a little memory I was able to go back 5 color selections, pretty nice especially online!

Bottom line, I would love to have this set up in Photoshop.