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Norrkross Freeware

cool little applications

Norrkross offers two cool little applications that can accomplish big tasks for you -- and the best part is they won't cost you a dime! Norrkross Tint is used to adjust the color balance of images. Norrkross Patterns is a simple editor to create palettes of patterns

Norrkross Tint

Norrkross Tint is used to adjust the color balance of images. Color adjustments with original color near the pixel color are applied more, whereas color adjustments that differ in original color from the pixel color have little or no effect. This allows the changing of different colors separately (eg. make the gray greener but leave the white and black as they are).

How does it work? Click in the image to add new color adjustments. You can add both colors that you want to change and colors you want to keep constant.

Click the color in the adjusted column in the color adjustment drawer to set it to set the target color you want. Pixels with color close to the original color will be adjusted to the target color. Letting the target color be the same as the original color for a color adjustment makes colors like the original color remain unchanged.

Tint is free! ...and runs on Mac OS X version 10.4 and later as an universal binary.

Download Norrkross Tint application (v1.2.4) NorrkrossTint_1.2.4.zip (204k)

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Norrkross Patterns

Almost all Mac OS X applications has build in support for pattern colors, via the standard color panel palettes. Norrkross Patterns is a very simple editor to create palettes of pattern colors from images.

Build up your color palette by dragging in images, naming them and then click Add.
When done save it to
~/Library/Colors/ (your personal colors directory),
or /Library/Colors/ (shared colors on the computer),
or /Network/Library/Colors.

After that the color palette should appear in all applications that use the standard color panel in all applications that use it (eg. TextEdit, Mail).

Download Norrkross Patterns
It's free to use ...and runs on Mac OS X version 10.4 and later as an universal binary.

Download Norrkross Patterns (v0.2) NorrkrossPatterns_0.2.zip (40k)

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