Chroma 4+

This is a very simple tool that will change your color workflow overnight. In the past I had to do a lot of color sampling in Photoshop and then combine and save swatches. Often times I had a huge color palette just to have the flexibility. Now I just color sample the image in Chroma and then save as an ASE file for Adobe. I now keep these palettes in a file folder and replace all the palettes easily (replace swatches with the new selection versus append). You only need to load up only what is relevant.

You can do something similar in Indesign with the color picker tool. But that only gives you five sampled colors - same as Chroma. But Chroma gives you 11 saturations for each of these five colors. Just to have this immediately laid out in your color swatches is a joy. I tested this on an images of a face. I sampled the image and created a (darken) layer to paint with very low opacity with these swatches in Photoshop. It was fantastic. The effect looked very realistic.

I have tried several similar programs but none seemed to be as quick or easy to use. Having the color codes available for the entire range of intensities speeds up workflow. Nice app.