I am not a designer, nor a color combination expert, hence I never looked towards a possibility of installing a color picker. Whenever I needed to pick a color from a website , I used photoshop and pasting the snapshot of the website in photoshop. But now things have changed as I have encountered a free and best color picker from iconico.com . The advantage is the very easy to use interface and simple key combination (Ctrl + G) to grab a color. The application is very small in size ( 600 KB) .
The advantage stated at website are as follows :-
- Easily pick any color from the screen
- Totally 100% Free!
- No popup adverts or spyware, it really is free
- Colors shown in hex and decimal
- Adjust Hue, Saturation, Value, Red, Green and Blue values
- Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black percentages shown
- Easy to use with any other program
- Resizable magnification area
- Overlay a grid for quick colorpicker alignment
- Use arrow keys to nudge mouse pointer
- Save multiple palettes of colors automatically
- WebSafe Colors and names displayed
- Snap to nearest WebSafe color
- Point sample, 3×3 or 5×5 pixel color sampling
- Adjust color with four advanced color mixers
- Edit colorpicker values after selection easily
- Easy to use collapsible sections
- Works with Firefox, Internet Explorer, Photoshop and any other application
You can download the colorpicker version 4 from here .. else you can download it directly from the website (The download link was resulting in an error, last time when i tried).
Do you also use color picker while designing ?? Which color picker do you use ?? Please mention with your comments !!
Nice Post. This will help me alot to pick the right color for the blog or Site
Hi,
For who are using firefox browser, they can get the ColorZilla from firefox add-on site. It’s free and easy to use
Anyway i just sharing with you and thanks for this useful color picker.
@xfuture- colorzilla will work only within firefox, Whereas color picker will work for all the windows. Thanks for sharing
I use Eltima Absolute Color Picker for this purpose. It is also free.