WheelMasks 4+

Harmonic Colors

Roger Tallada Solano

Designed for iPad

    • 3.7 • 7 Ratings
    • Free
    • Offers In-App Purchases

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Description

WheelMasks is an utility to create harmonic color schemes that will help you improve your paintings and illustrations.

Create a wheel mask by drawing a shape over the color wheel that limits the palette of colors available for your illustration, providing you with an harmonic color scheme.

Unlike traditional palette creation apps, WheelMasks’ palettes are not limited to just a few colors, making it an ideal tool for the digital painter and colorist.

Use a preset mask or create new ones by transforming them or creating them from scratch. There are preset masks for the following color schemes: triad, square, tetradic, complementary, accent, split and analogous.

Configure the color wheel to your liking. Chose how many hues you want, how many levels for each hue and the brightness or, when available, the saturation.

You can see the color definitions, either as RGB values or Hex, in the extended palette view. You can also copy those values to the pasteboard.

- Choose from several color modes for the wheel: RGB, RYB, RYGB and Equiluminant.
- Keep an archive of the wheel masks you've created.
- Send your wheel masks to any image editing app that is capable of opening PNG files or export the swatches as an Adobe Swatch Exchange file or as Procreate's swatches.

All the modes but Equiluminant have three variants:

- Normal: a typical color wheel with saturation or brightness, you can choose, decreasing to the center of the wheel.
- Chroma: a color wheel with decreasing chroma to the center that keeps the same lightness in each hue, with lightness decreasing along the wheel from yellow to its opposite hue.
- Grey: a color wheel with colors converging to a neutral grey at the center.

The Equiluminant mode has two variants, HSLuv and HPLuv. The HSLuv color space is an extension of CIELUV, a color space that attempts perceptual uniformity. The lightness of every hue in the color wheel is perceptually the same, unlike the lightness of other color spaces which varies from hue to hue.

What’s New

Version 1.2.5

Bug fixes.

Ratings and Reviews

3.7 out of 5
7 Ratings

7 Ratings

P e r c y ,

Really nice for the price!

The best and cheapest tool I found for creating colour palettes quickly so far! But I do have few suggestions:

Next to being able to rotate the entire selection, give us the ability to lock a selection of colourpoints and letting use scale and rotate only the selection, leaving the colourpoints that are not selected where they are. This would make customizing a gamut mask even easier/faster! I was trying to adjust only two point of a complimentary scheme and it requires alot of fidgeting.

Defining the other points of a gamut mask by setting the colour of one point. Sometimes I have a colour I like and I want to know other colours might go well with it using a specific gamut mask. I tried tapping a colour to see if its possible, but it seems you can only delete individual colour points.

More customization of the hues in the colour wheel screen. It might be a bit redundant, as this is what the mask is for too. But I don’t know. Being able to do this would feel the same as leaving certain paint bottles out of your colour mixing process during painting. It saves.. visual static. Right now it’s a bit limited. You pick a wheel. Select the amount of levels (please let us define these in numeric values too) and hues. There is a slider to change the general brightness/darkness moving towards the center of the wheel. I’d like to be able to do this per colour ring so you have more control over the gradient from the inner ring towards the outer ring.

Setting the darkness/colour of the mask. Right now it’s only black and partially transparent. I’d like to be able to make it completely opaque. I also like seeing colours against different backgrounds, like a neutral grey or white. I generally prefer set the UIs of my creative software to neutral greys. This will help anticipating what it will look like once I export my colors to my PC.

I’d also love to be able to customize my swatch table after being done setting my gamut. I know you can do this later in your applications, but I’d prefer to do it in the app. Maybe in a separate screen before exporting? So I’m ready to go once I get on my PC. The colour display of my PC is slightly different than my phone’s too. Doing everything in one place helps keeping things more uniform.

Minor feedback:

Change the icon of your app? This is a really good tool with serious potential and the smiley face makes it feel like it’s a toy. I think a lot of creatives are looking for a colour tool as flexible as this, but they might pass it over because of the icon. I almost did!

Anyway, if the app gets any of these features I’ll make this a 5 star review!

_Chevy58 ,

Excellent

Very nice app! Thank you

Dm7755 ,

Great way to choose your own color palette!

It's simple and sweet. You get exactly what you want from it and it gives more choices compared to other websites I use. You can export it directly to Procreate and Adobe apps or save it as a PNG file. Give it a try if you are in need of a straight-to-the-point app to discover your inspiration with the colors.

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