Color Pal is an Adobe® After Effects plug-in which provides a persistent, customizable floating color palette within After Effects. Color Pal allows you to easily store and access a large set of standard colors for use in your projects.
Color Pal can be used with any standard eyedropper in After Effects (e.g. composition background color, all color effect controls, solid color). Just choose the eyedropper, then click on the color of your choice in Color Pal.
Download the version appropriate for your operating system and unpack it. Place the "Color Pal" folder (which contains the Color Pal plug-in) into the "Plug-ins" folder in your After Effects folder. You must restart After Effects for the plug-in to be available. Color Pal should be visible in the "Window" menu and enabled.
That's it!
Color Pal is distributed as "trialware", which means that you can use it for a seven day evaulation period. During that period, you will be presented with a purchase dialog the first time you bring the palette up and you may either purchase the product, click "Try" to try out the product, or cancel. After the evaluation period, the purchase dialog will only allow you to buy the product or cancel.
Upon purchase, your plugin will be licensed for use with the copy of After Effects running at the time. A single user license is US $20.
To activate Color Pal, simply choose it from the Window menu. There are two parts to the Color Pal window: the main palette and the "hot chips". The main palette is a scrolling list of 256 color chips at the top of the Color Pal window. These come initialized to a selection of colors in the RGB color space. The "hot chips" are a row of eight colored rectangles along the bottom of the Color Pal window. These come initialized to the primaries white, black, red, green, blue, cyan, magenta and yellow. To change one of the chips, simply click on it to bring up the color chooser, select a new color and click OK.
The Color Pal window can be resized. When the number of rows displayed in the main palette is smaller than the number in the list, a scroll bar will appear to allow access to all the colors. You can make the window very small, in which case only the hot chips will be visible.
When you quit After Effects, the colors you were using will be saved automatically so that they will be available when you start your next session.
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