Huey

Huey Huey helps artists trace reference images with AR, extract precise palettes from photos, and adjust hue, saturation, and brightness to match colors accurately—tap, drag, zoom, and save custom swatches.

Huey

Huey is an artist-first tool built to make color and composition more accurate. It lets you place reference images over your drawing area using AR, so you can trace, check proportions, and refine your sketch with confidence. You can also pull color palettes from photos and adjust hue, saturation, and brightness to match real-world colors closely.

Whether you’re trying to match colors from a big set of art supplies or building your own palette for mediums like watercolors or pencils, Huey gives you responsive control over color—right in your workflow.

Key Features

• AR Trace Camera: Projects your selected image onto your workspace for tracing and composition reference.
• Digital try-before-you-change: Photograph physical coloring pages, then color them digitally so you can experiment before modifying the original.
• Precision color picker: Extracts accurate palettes from photos, swatches, and real-world samples.
• Custom palette building: Create and manage palettes made from any medium (watercolor, pencils, markers), and save swatch sets you can reuse.
• Marker matching: Match colors to an art-supply library, choose from supported marker sets, or build your own custom set.

Tips for Using Huey

• Touch-friendly workflow: Tap to pick colors, drag to reposition the projected image, and use pinch to zoom plus rotate to align it. Sliders help you control opacity, brightness, and preview blending.



• Instant visual feedback: You get an on-screen swatch preview and a color selection history, so you can revisit recent choices.
• Undo support: A straightforward undo system lets you revert changes you made inside the app.
• Precision controls: If you want exact adjustments, numerical readouts display values in common color models, with incremental fine-tuning.



• Natural interaction design: Gestures are intended to feel easy to discover and quick to use during sketching and coloring sessions.
• Project structure: A single project can include multiple palettes, saved reference photo snapshots, and marker sets tied to different workflow stages.
• Version-based progression: Instead of levels, work through project versions—for example, save an initial draft after testing, then create a final version after refining palettes and composition using the AR preview.
• Iterate efficiently: Test several color directions fast, compare snapshots side-by-side, and lock in the option you want for your physical piece.
• Consistency for series work: Reuse palettes across projects when you need the same tone and color logic throughout a set.

Pros & Cons

Pros

• Reduces guesswork, helping you go from concept to finished artwork faster.
• Portable color control makes it easier to switch between digital and physical media without changing tools.
• Supports common marker brands and also allows you to create your own sets for both hobbyists and pros.
• Simple, intuitive interface combined with AR and photo tools streamlines studio work.

Cons

• Accurate color capture depends on camera quality and lighting, so results may be less reliable in poor light.
• Not every marker brand may be included by default; unsupported marker sets might need to be added manually.

Conclusion

Huey was developed by an artist-driven team with real studio experience. The app focuses on what matters most in practice: speed, accuracy, and compatibility with common marker brands and traditional media. The team continues improving Huey based on artist feedback—refining workflows and expanding accessibility so the app fits naturally into a wide range of creative setups.