Color Explosion!
This is our biggest release this year! We’ve made iConnectHue color-correct, meaning as long as your display can show a light’s color, it should be the same on both. If iConnectHue knows a light, it will show you the appropriate color picker with all its colors the light is capable of.
Also Magic Scenes, Animations and Disco Scenes can be now more colorful and have nicer looking gradients both on screen and on lights.
These changes are included for everybody! Additionally, we have these improvements:
- Gradient color picker
- Automatic Festavia diffuse mode
- Relative brightness
- Magic Scenes from Gradients and pictures
- Copy & Paste colors/gradients (Pro)
- CIE color picker (Pro)
- Better favorite/included colors
- Show temperature and color values (Pro)
- New Magic Scene packages
Gradient color picker
We present to you: The best color picker for Hue! So far, we offered Magic Scenes to control Gradient lights and light groups to have gradients, now you can have easy, always perfect looking gradients for Gradient lights and light groups at your fingertips!
Select a gradient mode in your picker to the top left, then use the cursor to move around – all other color points will follow. You can adjust several of the modes with the thicker white cursor and narrow, widen or even invert the gradient.
With the 2022 Upgrade, you’ll have the blend picker available, with a membership you’ll also get these:
- Analogous – one main color and two adjecent colors
- Complementary – always a complementary color to main color
- Split – two complementary colors to the main color
- Triadic – three colors in the angle of 120°
- Tetradic – four colors in the angle of 90°
These are all different ways to generate harmonic gradients, without the hassle to always adjust multiple colors one after each other.
Automatic Festavia diffuse mode
Delivered Magic scenes without gradient (with Membership/2022 Upgrade) and the color picker triadic and tetradic mode (Membership) will automatically put your Festavia lights to the diffuse mode – letting them represent what these modes were thought for.
Relative brightness
Changing the brightness in light groups will now change each light’s brightness individually instead of putting them all to the same brightness (Membership or 2022 Upgrade).
If you have Pro and use the incandescent mode, you will be pleased to hear that it now also works for only individual lights that are color temperature mode (instead of the whole group), and now also by sliding in the group view and using the dimmer in the widget.
Magic Scenes from Gradients and pictures (Membership)
You can now create Magic Scenes from a gradient via our new gradient picker, or from pictures (Membership).
If you have Pro, you can now translate normal scenes to Magic Scenes, for easier copying from other sources (Note: doesn’t translate gradients in scenes).
We are also especially proud of our from picture mode, as it works color-correct, with high gamut images, and has been optimized to pick those colors you actually perceive as being a significant color of the image.
Copy & Paste colors/gradients (Pro)
You can now easily copy & paste colors and gradients between color pickers in iConnectHue. The iOS clipboard is being used – meaning you can also bring in colors from the outside. It usually works in CIE (XY) mode, but is capable of understanding/pasting Hex color values as well. The latter will be interpreted color correct as sRGB, which is the usual format in the web. You can find this option in the options menu (three dots) of the color picker. (Pro)
CIE picker (Pro)
Our Pro users can now use a CIE (1931) color picker instead of the normal one – this is the mode Hue lights usually work in. The individual light’s gamut (the colors the light is capable of) will be shown as a limiting triangle.
Better favorite / included colors
We’ve updated the included colors to reflect those delivered with the Hue app. “Evening light” is now “Bright”.
Pro: iConnectHue can guess a color’s name and will suggest it when saving it as a favorite. Also you can now opt to save the brightness with a favorite instead of just saving the color itself (as it was).
Show temperature and color values (Pro)
Pro users can now opt to show the color temperature and XY color value when using the pickers. You can enable this in the color picker options menu (three dots).
New Magic Scene packages
To celebrate our new abilities, we’ve included 3 (!) new scene packages: Neon, Neon gradients and More Christmas. The former make use of the better, deeper Magic Scene colors and better gradients, the latter works especially well with the new Festavia lights.