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ChromaMagic - the magical color program for artists. Have you ever been painting and said 'but what *is* that color?' Me too! ChromaMagic exists for one reason only. My paintings looked wrong. I just couldn't receive the colors in my paintings to look convincing. Test as I might there was always something off. Too bright, too light, too gray, not gray enough. Too blue, too brown, too pink. Why oh why should I not create things work? Well it turned out it wasn't in the paint. It wasn't in the mixing. Unique brushes didn't do the trick. Making those daft color charts didn't assist either. And it wasn't even in the method I place the paint on the paper. The trouble was in my brain. The trouble was that I had no possibility of mixing the right color. I was missing an essential part of the painting process. Something that would take years if not decades to figure out. And the reason was that I wasn't *seeing* the right color. Now I don't mean there was something wrong with my eyesight. What I mean that I was 'seeing' color but I wasn't really seeing *COLOR*. I didn't have the words or the means to really understand what I was looking at. And if we don't really know what we're looking at how on earth can we translate it into paint? Even if we don't wish to represent what we see how do we know what to change to enhance the result? Flip a coin? Believe possibility and experimentation? Repeat for years and years until we stumble on something that works....? No. So what changed? Everything changed. I learned to forget about primaries, secondaries and tertiaries. I learned to ditch the traditional artists wheel. I learned to stop talking about 'warm' and 'cool'. I learned to see color the method it is and not the method I expect it to be. I had to forget everything I had been told. I learned about hue, value, and chroma. Munsell. With ChromaMagic you can load up any image or reference and see at a glance what any color is. And the colors are described in a method that is most natural for artists. What is the hue (red, yellow, green etc)? Yes! And what is the value (very necessary)? Yes! And what is the chroma (how gray or saturated it is)? Yes!!! Color makes so much more sense now. But there's more! As well as the Munsell color mode (which is fabulous by itself!) there are 4 additional modes to assist you really see what is before us. - Wish to organize your reference into the major value shapes? Value mode will do that and you can change the number of value steps with a click of the mouse. - Wish to reduce your reference to just grayscale to really see those fine-grained values? Yes! - Wish to see how saturated or gray your colors are (this is always surprising!). Yes! - Wish to see how your colors are distributed around the color wheel? Yes And yet there's still more: - No more clicking around - ChromaMagic has a unbelievable fresh interface with buttery smooth zoomable, pannable photos. - No more need to be tethered to wireless connection. Take ChromaMagic anywhere - even up a mountain! - Too a lot of colors in your reference? Average your colors over multiple pixels - 2500 of them if you wish to. - Wish to know which paints are accessible for a certain color? ChromaMagic now has links to hundreds of top quality oil paints. - Wish to use ChromaMagic at home? On the bus? On a smartphone? Now you can run it on your android device smartphone or smartphone. All for one price! - No more silly loading buttons. Drag and drop your files in one swish on the desktop (Bliss!!) - Use ChromaMagic next to the easel for mixing. Now with mixing swatches and calibration values (no need for $1500 Munsell chips)