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Colors makes picking a color from your screen an easy point and click process.
With Colors running it is constantly tracking your mouse pointer and registers the pixel color that your mouse is currently over. If you like a color, just click and Colors will freeze the color and pop up a context menu where you can choose if you want to copy the web color, UIColor or NSColor and also gives you the option to turn the Click To Copy context menu off.
This is the app to get if you are a developer or web designer as well as a graphics artist because it really does make life simpler.
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Another bug: clicking the css3 button loads this into the clipboard rbga(223, 34, 0, 1.00), should be rgba, yes?
Jon,
Thanks, I’ve made a note of it, will be fixed in next release.
Chris
Hey there – great tool, really appreciated.
Two important things however that could improve it (i’ll leave a review as well).
1) Copying the “css3″ value is great & helpful (though why you called the RGBA value CSS3 is beyond me), if you do want the RGBA value, you probably want the HEX value of the same colour *as well* to deal with older browsers.
2) Way, way more important – I can;t change the shortcut! cmd-shift-5 was already hooked up to Skitch to take and publish screenshots – let me set my own one if I don;t like yours!
Looking forward to the update
Miles,
CSS3 utilizes RGBA for instance you can set as an example.
I will, in the next release add an option for you to pick your own shortcut to launch the color picker.
Thanks,
Chris
Thx Chris, since using the app in anger on Lion, I’ve had quite a lot of lag, pushing the cursor around the screen it locks up for 2-3 seconds on and off, hope you can replicate (can help if you want). Looking forward to the next release
serious problem with multiple monitors and mirroring turned off. I use my macbook air plugged into an external monitor when the colors loupe is over the external monitor, it reports what it sees as if it were on the laptop screen. Works fine with mirroring turned on, but I needed MORE real-estate, not less. Love the way this works on the laptop, but for the way I work, I’m afraid this is broken
Jon,
I’ll look into this issue, I actually have a similar setup and don’t experience the issues you are having. Who knows, it could be some weird bug. I’ll find the issue though and make sure its working in the next update.
Chris
Chris, thanks,
Finding that this is a larger problem: Lion handles multiple displays poorly in general; pity. perhaps they’ll get it right down the road. Meanwhile, I find I’ve fewer troubles w/external display if I run in ‘clamshell’ mode: laptop closed, monitor on. In this mode, colors works fine, and is a welcome replacement for Apple’s broken digital color meter.
Jon
not working under Lion? Color picker shows wrong color, and when you click, it shows “#ffffff”
Randy,
I just tested it on Lion and it appears to work correctly. When you say that it shows #ffffff for the color, are you talking about on the button? The buttons don’t show the values, they only show the format that the value will be in. When you click on the button it will copy the color to the clipboard and from there you can paste it into any text editor.
Chris
I expected the exact same thing.
Would be cool if buttons showed values, that way user gets feedback that the colour was captured.
otherwise a great app, keep up the good work
Damien,
I’ve already submitted an update that is currently in review that does just that as well as pressing the ESC key to dismiss the picker.
Chris
Randy – I’m getting exactly the same thing on Lion
(new MBP, clamshell mode into a 27″)