Ever needed to know what was a certain color wherever on your screen? Many applications already exists to let you know the color of a certain pixel on the screen, but everyone has their favorite one.
Mine is Color Cop. The application itself is well-done and has lived through ages. Jay Prall first released it in 1999, and I discovered it a couple of years ago. Using it never grew old on me as it was and is still a breeze to use. You simply drag the picker from the application to your color and you’re done. There’s even a magnifier to more precisely select your color when a bunch of pixels are not the same one. You can also get the average color of a bunch of pixels if needs be.
There are other features like the complementary color palette, which shows you 42 colors that might fit with the one selected and the history of picked colors. Other than that, you can head over Color Cop‘s website to watch an animated gif of it in action and, hopefully, download it and use it. Sadly, it’s windows-only. In the linux world I used gcolor2, not knowing anything better.
Have fun picking colors!
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January 20th, 2010 at 10:43 pm
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March 2nd, 2010 at 5:22 am
ICop Out is really not too bad. I actually did not went to the theater but watched it online, on http://www.moviez.im – You need to take a survey to unlock the movie but the quality is worth it!
July 20th, 2010 at 4:28 am
Wow. looks clean. I have been using color cop and color mania. Here is a good resource for color picking software
November 26th, 2010 at 5:19 am
If this application is freeware, I will give it a try. My favorite color is dark blue, wonder what are the pixels data.
December 30th, 2010 at 7:15 am
Color Cop looks like a part of Paint. I mean you can do te same things in Paint. Why do you need this tool then?
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June 28th, 2011 at 6:16 am
If you have a question about the entry process, chances are you’ll find the answer in the PanelPicker FAQ.