http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/10/instant_eyedropper_identifies_pixel_colours_for_faster_design/ tips and downloads to help you at work and play Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:14:13 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/10/instant_eyedropper_identifies_pixel_colours_for_faster_design/comment-page-1/#comment-2028 gw Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:32:01 +0000 http://www.lifehacker.com.au/tips/2008/10/08/instant_eyedropper_identifies_pixel_colours_for_faster_design.html#comment-2028 <p>I'll chime in with another free alternative: ColorPic, by Iconico. What I like best is, I can easily create custom color palettes and save them. http://www.iconico.com/colorpic/</p> I’ll chime in with another free alternative: ColorPic, by Iconico. What I like best is, I can easily create custom color palettes and save them. http://www.iconico.com/colorpic/

]]> http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/10/instant_eyedropper_identifies_pixel_colours_for_faster_design/comment-page-1/#comment-2027 joshnunn Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:07:44 +0000 http://www.lifehacker.com.au/tips/2008/10/08/instant_eyedropper_identifies_pixel_colours_for_faster_design.html#comment-2027 <p>I swear by Pixie : http://www.nattyware.com/pixie.html tells you the colour currently under your cursor and has a shortcut key to copy that colour to your clipboard. It's simple and unobtrusive and behaves similarly to the Mac's Digital Colour meter tool.</p> I swear by Pixie : http://www.nattyware.com/pixie.html tells you the colour currently under your cursor and has a shortcut key to copy that colour to your clipboard. It’s simple and unobtrusive and behaves similarly to the Mac’s Digital Colour meter tool.

]]> http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/10/instant_eyedropper_identifies_pixel_colours_for_faster_design/comment-page-1/#comment-2026 Dean Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:47:54 +0000 http://www.lifehacker.com.au/tips/2008/10/08/instant_eyedropper_identifies_pixel_colours_for_faster_design.html#comment-2026 <p>I use a little app called 'Faststone Capture' for this, among other things. It also does screen capturing of the whole screen, specific windows, or a draggable area, it has an on-screen ruler and a magnifier that you can drag around the screen. And of course, a colour picker like you mentioned. Best of all, you can setup a keyboard shortcut to instantiate each of these functions. A web-developers dream!</p> I use a little app called ‘Faststone Capture’ for this, among other things. It also does screen capturing of the whole screen, specific windows, or a draggable area, it has an on-screen ruler and a magnifier that you can drag around the screen. And of course, a colour picker like you mentioned. Best of all, you can setup a keyboard shortcut to instantiate each of these functions. A web-developers dream!

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