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PixelGrabber - Find the Color of Any Onscreen Pixel
by Jason Clarke Sep 26th 2005 at 12:00PM
PixelGrabber is a very small and simple program that can find the color value for any pixel on the screen, and copy it to the clipboard. According to their site, "PixelGrabber shows RGB and HEX value of any pixel on screen in real-time. Simply move the mouse pointer to any pixel on screen in any program and immediately get the color values. Easily copy value to clipboard. Useful to Web site designers and graphic designers." I'm sure all of the web designers out there have their favorite method of acquiring onscreen color values. Post your alternative ideas to the comments!
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Joe said 12:21PM on 9-26-2005
This sounds pretty good -- will have to check it out.
My current method is printscreen / paste into Photoshop / eyedropper. Which aint bad if PS is already open.
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ekka said 12:08PM on 9-26-2005
For us firefox users there is always ColorZilla.
http://www.iosart.com/firefox/colorzilla/
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Mike J said 12:29PM on 9-26-2005
Color Cop is by far my favorite tool for this that I've used for years :
http://www.datastic.com/tools/colorcop/
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Justin said 12:40PM on 9-26-2005
I usually just do a grab on the section and open in PS. I am on a mac BTW
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Brian Peiris said 2:58PM on 9-26-2005
http://www.iconico.com/colorpic/index.aspx
Great little program, great company too, take a look at thier other software.
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Peter Hansen said 6:32AM on 9-30-2005
Works like a charm.
Paid 10 bucks for it and that made the annoying "UNREGISTERED VERSION" dissappear.
Well worth the money :-)
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Ben said 12:06AM on 10-04-2005
Thanks Mike J.. that Color Cop tool has great features and is free.. i love it
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