Have you seen the Chameleon script for AE at AEscripts in conjunction with Adobe Kuler? I find that is a great way to manage color palettes between apps and large amounts of client palettes through the Adobe Kuler website. I also love the fact the mobile app Kuler can pull swatches from photos. With Chameleon, you link the color swatch to a solid's or text's color with built-in expressions, and then you can swap through different color schemes on the fly. Worth a look. 

On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 7:25 PM, Andrew Embury <aembury@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey guys and gals,

This isn't so much of a question for the AE Mail List, but more a general question / rant / want....

We've obviously addressed the interest in picking up the grunt speed of our native application, but what about workflow speed? And by workflow, I mean colour pickers.

This is a relatively broad statement, but something I think we could all benefit from. You see, I use Colorama on a near daily basis, and quite truthfully, nothing gets to me more thann how the colour pickers are not universal throughout the application.

I'm not sure how overly difficult this may be, but is it possible to move forward in laying out universally the colour picker in the application for every "Effect"? Having the hexadecimal input saves me time and energy tremendously as I hot swap between Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign and of course After Effects.

Clearly, this cannot be done for external Plugins, but for the CC and internal plugs in the base of AE would be amazing.

Sincerely yours,

- Andrew

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