I recently went on a search to find a
good color picker for Windows that was both portable and fast so that I
could stop making the trip to Photoshop whenever I needed to find a
color value. After trying a number of different applications, I was
delighted to find ColorPix.
ColorPix
is a useful little color picker that grabs the pixel under your mouse
and transforms it into a number of different color formats.
You can use the built-in
magnifier to zoom in on your screen, click on a color value to copy it
directly to the clipboard, and even keep ColorPix on top of all other
apps and out of the way.
ColorPix has an interesting lock
and unlock mechanic for selecting the color that you want to find.
While the application is active, hitting any key will unlock the picker,
which you can then move anywhere on your screen. Once you've found the
color, hitting any key again will lock it in so that you don't
accidentally nudge the mouse while clicking to make your selection. It
also includes a magnifier window to help with pixel precession at
several different levels of zoom.
Once you've locked in a color,
you can click anywhere on the RGB, HEX, HSB, or CMYK values and copy the
individual color for the mode that you're working in directly to the
clipboard. If you want the HEX value, you can use the Ctrl+C shortcut to
get it even faster.
ColorPix weighs in at about 600
KB and doesn't require an installation; that makes it perfect for
storing on Dropbox so that it is readily available whenever I need it.
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