SharePoint Color Palette Tool - SharePoint 2013

I might update this blog post later, but for now this is short and sweet.

I just discovered a great tool for quickly editing colors and generating *.spcolor files.
It is a small(1,1mb) Visual Studio-based program for editing color palettes for SharePoint 2013.
The program has a GUI with a site preview and generates an xml style file as one of the ingredients for SharePoint 2013 themes or looks as I believe they call it.

SharePoint Color Palette Tool is avaliable from Microsoft via technet.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=38182

I used this great "guide" for editing my own themes, placing the files in the correct folders directly in the hive OR in the site via SharePoint Designer 2013:

http://bniaulin.wordpress.com/2012/12/16/step-by-step-create-a-sharepoint-2013-composed-look/