Drop - A Color Palette Creator

Update: it's great to now have the ability to rearrange swatches and the new styles are nice. Still can't delete palettes or export for Procreate or Photoshop but it's not something I can't work around. This app is clean and beautiful and functional in design. I like that I can save up to 15 swatches in a palette. I like the variety of ways I can display the palettes on the images when needed. I mostly use the home screen view though since it is clean and I can see multiple palettes and their titles. I take screen shots of all my palettes from the home screen and combine them into one large image in Affinity Photo so I can pick from a lot of palettes in a single image. While it would be great to have the app export Procreate color swatch files and Photoshop aco files, it still does a very good job for producing color palette images that you can then manually input into Photoshop, Procreate, or whatever app you like. It would be very useful to be able to zoom in to the image. I would also like to see the UI condensed, there is no need to have the save, home and title buttons on a different line from the delete and edit buttons. There is enough room to put them on one line and give more room for the image. And since my main device is an iPad Pro, having a UI setup for iPads would be welcome.

I would like to give this app more stars however I’ve not made the in app purchase yet. I also agree that I’d like to use it in landscape mode not just portrait mode on iPad. Are there some of the palettes that don’t interfere with the photo? In other words, when I upload the bottom palette it crops the bottom of my photo. Also, it would be nice if the “Drop Photo Palette” logo disappears in the purchase? I like this app because it helps me planning my art work colors Will consider purchase of more options. Thank you!

Super helpful to have an app to pull colors from photos and make swatches. I used it to pre-mix colors for a painting, which made the palette WAY more accurate and saved a ton of time not needing to color correct on the painting itself. However, the free version ads were so incredibly annoying that I found myself hating even opening the app, and couldn’t wait to delete it when the painting was done. I understand ads are an exchange for a free app, but it made me not want to spend any time with it, which meant I would never even have considered buying more from the app. I would have stuck with it much longer if the ads were at least respectful of the viewer’s experience (like not putting them smack in the middle of the swatch library.) It was just super annoying using an app catered for visual creatives that was so visually cluttered.

Here’s a fun dose of oversharing that has an uplifting ending: So I have severe depression and struggle to leave my house (sometimes bed) and am often unmotivated to do art even though I love making stuff. This app inspired me to go outside and take a walk. Nature has beautiful colors and making palettes from your own photos is fun and artistically satisfying. I decided to make a palette out of one of the pictures I took. I remembered I had a bunch of different resist dye ideas I had been wanting to try but didn’t have the energy to do. So I tried those new techniques and made the dyes colors from my nature walk Drop palettes! Before today, I had pretty much forgotten what it was like to have a genuinely fun time without any negative thoughts lurking. So Drop, thanks for getting me off the couch for some fresh air this afternoon, I needed that

It is so helpful to be able to import any photo into the app, select colors manually, and tweak them each individually to achieve a sample palette to share with others!