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Sketchpad (beta)
Sketchpad is a free application utilizing <canvas> to allow anyone with a web-connection and a recent copy of Safari, Firefox, Opera, or Chrome the ability to create beautiful drawings. Internet Explorer support is coming soon — we’ll be tying into IECanvas (look for this release sometime next week).

Sketchpad includes a number of Drawing Tools — including: Text, Shape, Spirograph, Brush, Calligraphy, Pencil, Paint-Bucket, and Stamp. These tools can be used together with the provided database of Colors, Gradients, and Patterns — or you can create you own custom styles by clicking on the “COLOR”, “GRADIENT”, or “PATTERN” tabs on the top-bar. Sketchpad also includes a few generic Drawing Utilities — including: Marquee, Crop, Eraser, and a HSL/RGBA Color-Picker. Be sure to click on “LIGHT” mode on the top-bar for extra fun :)

Feel free to add your Sketchpad drawings to our Flickr group, we’d love to see them!

Here are a few drawing made with Sketchpad:


 
Sketchpad (alpha)
Welcome to the preview of Sketchpad. Though not all browsers support <canvas> we’re working hard to extend support before our official release. Until then, you lucky FireFox users (download Firefox) will be able to kick the tires and hold the wheel of what we believe will become the new standard in Web-authoring.

Sketchpad uses the little-known <canvas> tag to provide users and publishers with full control over the presentational qualities of their work. Directly accessing vector graphics, the <canvas> tag gives publishers real-access to their users’ display. The <canvas> tag will be available in HTML 5.0. In the meantime, we’re working to extend support to Internet Explorer, and working on compatibilty with Safari/WebKit’s javascript layers.

In the late 90’s, Macromedia released flash 7.0, using Actionscript. This allowed web developers to incorporate advanced graphics and programming into their website. Unfortunately, flash files are difficult to edit and require browser-side plugins. This proprietary format has never-the-less, received wide acclaim and usage over the years. Canvas is something new. With canvas, programming is handled in plain Javascript. Developers and users are given a simple way to manage their interactive programs. Further, canvas is a simple vector programming interface. Whether you’re using a mobile phone or a wide screen display, your Canvas webpages are guarenteed to be crisp, clear and responsive.
 
Color Galaxy (beta)
Color Galaxy is a online color library visualizer. We’ve amassed a collection of 27 color databases. There is a lot of variety in the data, everything from Crayola’s historical set of standard crayons, to Munsell’s scientific renotational data. Requires a <canvas> enabled browser: Firefox, Opera, or Safari.

Here’s a list of what’s included: CNE, Crayola Crayons (since 1903), NBS/ISCC (Dye Colors, Colour Terminology in Biology, Centroids of the NBS/ISCC catalog, Colors for Ready-Mixed Paints, Horticultural Colour Charts, Dictionary of Color, Plochere Color System, Color Standards and Color Nomenclature, Rock-Color Chart, Postage-Stamp Color Names, Soil Color Charts, Standard Color Card of America), Resene (2001 & 2007 catalog’s from Resene paint company), Munsell 1929 (Colors physically appearing in the 1929 Munsell Book of Color), Munsell 1943 (Colors listed the original 1943 renotation article, lying inside the Macadam limits), Standards (Named colors in Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Netscape, SVG, Windows, & X11), Tango Color Palette & finally the VisiBone Anglo-Centric Color Code. Special thanks to Robert Krimen, MCSL, Jaffer, and Wikipedia for providing the data for this project!
 
DHTML Color Picker v2.0
Today, we have a few new updates for you. First off, the Color Conversion Library has been expanded to include HEX, RGB, HSV, CMYK, XYZ, Lab color spaces. On the same note, I’d like to introduce the DHTML Color Picker v2.0 — another Open Source product (GPL & CC) by the ColorJack crew. This color picker was developed for one of our upcoming products: an online vector editing package.
 
Articles on Color Theory
An articles section has been added to the website. This area will be devoted to providing interesting, easy to read, information on color theory. There are currently three articles available: Color Blindness, Color Formulas, and Color Models. These initial articles help describe what’s going on in our color scheming applications. Have an idea for an article? Feel free to contact me.
 
Sphere (gamma R2)
Sphere now works in Internet Explorer! Converted all the Canvas tags into Flash. It’s a bit slower, but still cool none-the-less... if you’re stuck on a machine without <canvas> support.
 
Sphere (gamma R1)
I’ve released a new version of Sphere which addresses a few bugs, and incorperates some useful features. One of the nicest things is that the new version will scheme tints as well as hues. One of the most apparent changes is you have full control over your base color now, via HSV + RGB sliders. Let me know what you think of the changes :)
 
DHTML Color Sphere v1.0
I’ve prepared a new DHTML plugin, licencened under Creative Commons. It works perfectly on all Macintosh browsers, however, I haven’t had the opportunity to test on Windows… If there are bugs there, it would be great if someone could submit the fix’s… otherwise, you’ll have to wait for me to get around to finding a spare PC to test on.

The new plugin is based on our popular Sphere color chooser. The coolest part is that it’s resizable, you can make this thing as big as you want. Check it out here.
 
Sphere Widget (beta)
Did you like ColorJack Sphere? Want it on your desktop? Download the Mac Widget!


 
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