Comments on: Quick and Easy Color Picker

By: ColourPixker

ColourPixker — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 01:04:25 +0000

Nattyware’s Pixie is the best color picker for Windows – I wish it had an OS X version but the developer has already commented (can’t remember where?) that it will not be ported to OS X. If you are using Windows, go get Pixie.

Pixie has a tiny footprint and quick and easy key board shortcuts:
– copy the currently hovered color to your clipboard
– zoom in on the hovered area (for easy copying of color)

Color Picker Pro for Mac OS X looks about as good.

Color Picker Pro Cons:
– Costs $17.95 more than Pixie
– The UI is too large side taking up precious screen realestate
– remove zoom and make it a shortcut – see Pixie!
– remove the permanent palette and make a shortcut – see Pixie!
– Clumsy Copt yo Clipboard process
– Color Picker Pro requires two different key strokes to get a color to your OS X clipboard. First you must press a “Capture” shortcut, then you must press a “Copy” shortcut to ‘Copy’ what you just ‘Captured.” Why? If Color Picker had a shortcut to copy the hovered color (like Pixie) instantly, it would be worth the price.

By: Don Wilson

Don Wilson — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 06:28:04 +0000

Perfect. I always have to print script + open photoshop and that whole insane list of actions to get a simple color that I want.

Thanks so much!

By: Ian

Ian — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:11:44 +0000

Thanks for the info

The comments you get on your site are so unhelpful , I wonder why you or they bother to carry on.

Anyway, keep on keeping on…

By: Evan

Evan — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 05:32:57 +0000

There’s a Windows program called colour pixie or something I used to use doing this.

By: chad

chad — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:37:26 +0000

@seth

Yea, well I’m a web developer with design tendencies so firefox is always open when I need some color picking, but I see what you mean.

By: seth

seth — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:37:06 +0000

chad, yeah the firefox one is neat for when you must have firefox open too; i guess i’ve just gotten used to having a standalone version of a full featured color picker.

for windows, i use nattyware’s pixie.

By: chad

chad — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:48:41 +0000

firefox extension has been doing this for like 3 or 4 years, it’s part of my “ok I have firefox now I need my tools” actions after install

…. and it’s free…. and it works on every platform… booyah

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/271

By: seth

seth — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:55:46 +0000

another awesome one is critical matter’s colorpicker pro (it’s not free, but its well worth the moola): http://www.criticalmatter.com/colorpickerpro/index.html

sorry, osx only on that one.

By: Enzer Miliard

Enzer Miliard — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:48:49 +0000

thanks Dan…….. sadly I needed this a week ago…….. but I don’t know if I might need it again……

By: Noraa Haras

Noraa Haras — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:41:42 +0000

Mac OS X comes with DigitalColor Meter, an app that does essentially the same thing. Look in /Applications/Utilities

Mac OS X only, you already have it.