Tool Tuesday: Color Selector

Techtites Daily: Tool Tuesday

Color is one of the most important elements while designing, be it graphics or webpages. A good color combination can work wonders and a bad one … well!

I browse though a huge number of sites every single day. Every site has something unique to offer and many a times this uniqueness tends to be the color they use.

Usually while designing, I need to find out various gradients of the color I am currently using. At other times I need to figure out the exact color in a photograph. While many graphic editors have this inbuilt in them, at times they become overkill to find out a simple color. That is when a simple dedicated software like Color Selector steps in.

Color Selector

Color Selector is a freeware program that can be used for selecting and converting color formats; it also has an inbuilt color picker tool that will get the color of any pixel on the screen and a palette tool that allows you to view, modify and save palettes in a variety of formats.
You have the ability to zoom into the screen upto 9 times to ensure that you can pick out very accurately the pixel whose color you are looking for.

Features:

Color selection sliders and input boxes.
Shade control slider.
Alternative access to the windows color dialog.
Format Converter converts from HTML, RGB, HSL, HSB/HSV, CMY, hexadecimal, decimal, and octal.
Color picker finds the color of any pixel on the screen. Display the portion of the screen that the mouse is over at up to 9x zoom, and can get a 3×3 or 5×5 average. It can even let you select an area on your screen and get the average!
Export to the clipboard in six formats: HTML, RGB, HSL, CMY, hexadecimal, decimal, octal, and graphical color swatch.
Palette tool allows you to select, set and manipulate colors from a palette.
Open palettes from pal, act, and bmp files. Save them as pal and act files.
Four default palettes: Web 216, Web 125 (Unix), Windows System and Macintosh System.
Snap to Palette feature allows you to convert the current color to the nearest available color in the current palette. Easily find the nearest websafe color using the Web 216 palette!
New input and output formatting options! Standard, Byte, Percentage and Decimal! You can even specify your own custom formats!
Scripting support! Format output any way you like! Create your own export formats! Modify the converter to read your formats!
Click to Copy option now available. No more using CTRL-C to copy formats; just click the format box!