There are tons of tools and gadgets out there to make your life easier. Here is some stuff for color scheming, analyzing layout, and a couple of other miscellaneous things…

Color Scheme Generator - A web based color scheme generator. Put in a base color and it’ll give you relative supporting colors. Excellent for getting schemes for soft tones (pastels). Simple and easy.

Color Schemer - An awesome app for creating complex (and simple if you want) color schemes. Let’s you export the color scheme to a Photoshop pallet as well as several other formats. The most useful part of the program is the PhotoSchemer feature. This feature lets you import a photo and the program will automatically generate a balanced scheme based on colors in the photo.

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