Palette Puts Customizable Buttons, Sliders, and Knobs At Your Fingertips for Hands-On Editing

Photo editing used to be a truly interactive, albeit laborious, experience in the days of the darkroom. Now, most everything is done through mouse clicks, keystrokes, and digital tablets.

Palette aims to change that with their fully customizable modular array of buttons, sliders, and knobs. This exciting new piece of hardware, which seamlessly integrates with Adobe software such as Photoshop and Lightroom, literally puts the editing controls into your hands and snaps together in whatever configuration best suits your workflow.

Palette consists of a base element, or the “core,” that attaches to your computer via USB. From there you can effortlessly attach up to 32 physical sliders, buttons, and dials (all referred to as “modules”) that function as specific tools or hotkeys within your program of choice. Adjust your highlights and shadows with a simple turn of a knob. Increase your clarity and saturation by moving a slider. It’s essentially like arranging a set of tools on your desk that are automatically recognized by your computer. It really can’t get any simpler than that.

While the DIY gamepad Lightroom controller is a giant step above relying on a keyboard, it doesn’t hold a candle to Palette’s flexibility and ease of use.