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| Kaleidoscope | Home of the ultimate in user interface customization for the Mac by the illustrious Greg Landweber & Arlo Rose. Site includes the two links below and much more |
| NAUS | The regularly updated New & Updated Schemes section of the KSA, maintained by Kaleidoscope Evangelist Eric Reid |
| KSA | The Kaleidoscope Scheme Archive. Thousands of third part schemes. Searchable |
| Resource Editors | |
| ResEdit | Apple's free resource editor (direct download) |
| Designer's Studio | Resource editor for creating Kaleidoscope schemes, supporting large cicns and icon sets |
| Resourcer | Commercial spendy alternative |
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| Scheme Factory | The official Kaleidoscope Scheme editor, now in preview release, with plans for future expansion |
| Pink Elephants | Graphical editor for the wnd# and cinf resources in K2 schemes (direct download) |
| SchemeChecker | HyperCard Stack that checks various aspects of schemes |
| Dathorc's Sample | Modified version of Apple's Appearance Sample (for viewing Appearance features) to view aspects of Kaleidoscope schemes |
| Icon Machine | 32 bit icon editor with integrated mask editing |
| Iconographer | 32 bit icon editor. Includes icon browser to edit files with multiple icon resources |
| clip2cicn | Inserts a picture from the clipboard into a cicn |
| clip2icns | For the creation of 32 bit icons. Takes a picture from the clipboard, creates a 32 bit icon with an 8 bit mask |
| Glypher | Helps create system folder icons by enabling the creation of a set of glyphs to be layered on a generic folder base. 32 bit icon compatible. |
| Icon Helper Set | Resource of all icon files for creating Kaleidoscope schemes or icon sets |
| IconBuilder | PhotoShop plug-in for creating 32 bit icons |
| Export Icon | Photoshop plug-in to export a image as a MacOS custom icon |
| IconBOSS | 32 bit icon editor that comes with PowerBar Pro, both of which will not have future upgrades |
| TextureMagic | Bitmap editor for creating seamless textures |
| PreviewMaker | Utility for creating various screenshots of schemes, as well as showing a schemes important attributes |
| Coloristic | Utility which magnifies the area of the screen surrounding the current curser position, displays color value, and measures pixel distances. What sets this one above similar tools, is that it remains active in the background. |
| SSCSM | Scheme Switcher Control Strip Module by Akamai Design, the makers of Designer's Studio, and Greg Landweber |
| Guides & Tutorials | |
| K2SEP | A Kaleidoscope Scheme Editing Primer. In pdf format, updated for K2. |
| K2 Intro DRAFT | Draft of official K2 documentation, with detailed instructions for editing the cinf and wnd# resources in K 2 schemes, in pdf format, by Kaleidoscope Evangelist, Eric Reid (direct download) |
| K2 Resources List | Complete list of resources for Kaleidoscope 2.2.4 by Bert Uiterweer (direct download) |
| Scott's K2 help | Tutorial on editing the cinf and wnd# resources in K2 |
| How To Make Schemes |
Tutorial on editing the window rectangles and parts of the wnd# resources in K2, plus design guidelines |
| K2 Tutorial | Downloadable tutorial on editing the window rectangles and parts of the wnd# resources in K2, plus scheme how tos |
| Regia | An Open Source scheme, offered as a template for scheme creation, including a tutorial on editing the wnd# resources (direct download) |
| Tool Walkthroughs | Tutorials on the graphical editors Pink Elephant and Scheme Factory |
| How to... K2 Scheme Guide |
A collection of tutorials written by various scheme authors |
| Kaleidoscope 2 FAQ | A collection of Q & A |
| Button Ring Tutorial | Calyxa's tutorial on default button rings |
| MOZCO !garash! Icon | Tips & Tricks section has drawing techniques for creating icons, which apply to the icon based cicn resources of K schemes |
| The Kaleidoscope Way | Zen and the art of the Kaleidoscope color scheme. Extensive resources |
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