Huey

Huey is an artist-centric tool. This powerful app allows users to project reference images onto their workspace to trace or refine sketches, ensuring accurate proportions and alignment. With Huey, you can extract palettes from photographs and finely control hue, saturation, and brightness for faithful color matching. Whether you're matching colors to a vast library of art supplies or creating custom palettes using any medium, such as watercolors or pencils, Huey gives you effortless control over color.

Features:

AR Trace Camera projects images onto your workspace for tracing and composition reference.

Photograph physical coloring pages and color them digitally to experiment before altering the original.

Precision color picker extracts accurate palettes from photos, swatches, and real-world samples.

Build and manage custom palettes from any medium—watercolor, pencils, markers—and save reusable swatch sets.

Match colors to an art supply library, select from supported marker sets, or create your own custom set.

Tips for Users:

Huey is optimized for touch workflows: tap to pick colors, drag to move projected images, pinch to zoom and rotate, and use sliders for opacity, brightness, or blending previews. The app provides an on-screen color swatch preview and history so you can step back through recent selections, and a simple undo system lets you revert adjustments made inside the app.

For artists who prefer precision, numerical readouts show color values in common models and let you fine-tune with incremental controls. All touch interactions are designed to be discoverable and responsive so they fit naturally into sketching and coloring sessions.

Projects in Huey can contain multiple palettes, snapshots of reference photos, and saved marker sets to match different stages of a workflow. Progression is based on project versions rather than levels: you can create an initial test pass, save it as a draft, and then create a final version after refining palettes and composition using the AR preview.

This structure encourages iteration—test several color routes quickly, compare snapshots side-by-side, and commit the preferred approach to your physical piece. Reusing palettes across projects makes Huey useful for series work where consistency of tone is important.

Pros & Cons:

Pros

Huey reduces time spent guessing colors, helping you move from idea to final piece faster.

Portable color control makes it easy to work across digital and physical media without switching tools.

Support for common marker brands plus the ability to create your own sets suits both hobbyists and professionals.

Intuitive interface and combined AR and photo tools streamline studio workflows.

Cons

Accurate color capture depends on camera quality and lighting, so results may vary in poor light.

Not every brand is preloaded; unsupported marker sets must be added manually.

Conclusion:

Huey was created by an artist-driven team with practical studio experience; the app’s features reflect working priorities like speed, accuracy, and compatibility with common marker brands and traditional media. The team continues to refine workflows and accessibility options based on artist feedback to ensure Huey fits naturally into a variety of studio practices.