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WebWord Weblog Posting Posting Date: April 26, 2002 Color Wheel Expert -- "Color Wheel Expert is a useful and easy-to-use color utility for web designers, artists, or anyone who works with color."
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Demo issues: Several key features are disabled, complete with random, popup-like dialog boxes urging you to buy. A "Buy Now!" button hovers randomly over the program the whole time it's running. Generic issues: Why does a program called Color Wheel display the colors in a square? Other oddness follows. Text fields annoy by sometimes being editable, sometimes not. A menu selects triad colors, complements, etc, but it shows the colors below the menu, instead of highlighting them in the context of the color square, I mean wheel. On their web site, they purport to have a "handy and intuitive interface." It needs more work before that's true. Posted by: Chad Lundgren on April 27, 2002 02:06 PM
These guys directly stole the idea from Color Schemer.com. I have used the color schemer for the past couple of years and when I came across this blatant rip-off, I was shocked. The words and features were stolen directly from the color schemer. Shame on whoever copied teh color wheel. Do NOT buy this product. That would be promoting stealing and fraud. Posted by: Jon Helfner on April 30, 2002 03:18 AM
I am the author of Color Wheel Expert. I found the comments by chance and I was shocked. >These guys directly stole the idea from...... Please don't draw a conclusion so quickly. Actually my idea came from several articles in MSDN, please check out the following URL: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dn_voices_hess/html/hess07102000.asp?frame=true The articles are "wheel of color","coloring the world" and "scheming in color". After reading these useful articles, I have decided to add these futures to new version of color expert (the former name of color wheel expert). Because this is the first version which includes the feature of "color wheel", there are some shortcomings in this version, just like "color square" issue (Thank you, Chad Lundgren, I think your comments is right. Would you please allow me to use your ideas in our new version?) Frankly, I have tried our competitor's program before (I think our competitors have tried ours too). But I think there is big difference between our software and our competitor's (including interface, features...)- Though both have a color wheel (or you can say "color square") - The concept of "color wheel" is very basic in color theory. I don't know why I can't use this concept in our program! Best Regards,
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