Working with colors and color schemes on OS X

Classic Servoy
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Back again, now with another tip.

When you don’t have a (expensive) photo editor but want to grab colors from webpages or other applications there is this nice little application created for nothing more than that purpose: Sweet Sixteen.

The nice thing of Sweet Sixteen is that it can grab the color for you and immediately converts the color to Hex, Weg-Safe, RGB and HSL.

It is donationware and you can find it here: http://www.crescendosw.com/index.html.

When you want to know about color schemes you can go to adobe kuler at http://kuler.adobe.com/ .
Really great stuff!
To integrate this into the color picker of OS X and, like I did, use it together with Sweet Sixteen so that you can translate the themes into Hex as well, you can use Mondrianum.
You can find Mondrianum at http://www.lithoglyph.com/mondrianum .
Mondrianum is beta software right now and there is no pricing information available (as far as I know) right now.

Have fun…

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As for a color ‘picker’ you can also use an app that comes with Mac OS X (any version).
It’s called ‘DigitalColor Meter’. You can find it in /Applications/Utilities/ .

As for making blends of colors using a base color and a blend color check out the following page:
http://slayeroffice.com/tools/color_palette/

Enjoy :)

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These are great tools.

Another great web resource is ColourLovers:
http://www.colourlovers.com/

And, for a great, free palette manager, eye drop tools, etc. for Windows:
http://www.iconico.com/colorpic/

greg.

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These are great tools.

Another great web resource is ColourLovers:
http://www.colourlovers.com/

And, for a great, free palette manager, eye drop tools, etc. for Windows:
http://www.iconico.com/colorpic/

greg.

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Nice (Windows) addition greg.

Robert, I like Sweet Sixteen better. Imho it is slighly more user friendly (but who am I).

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ROCLASI:
As for a color ‘picker’ you can also use an app that comes with Mac OS X (any version).
It’s called ‘DigitalColor Meter’. You can find it in /Applications/Utilities/

“now, who put that in my Utilities folder, and when?!”

thanks for pointing this out, Robert. (extracting keycaps from forehead now)

kazar

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Hi

Another great little program for colour “picking” is pixie.

a free download from www.nattyware.com/pixie.html highly recommended. Will show the RGB, CMYK, HTML, HSV, and Hex value of any pixel under your mouse cursor. Windows only however.

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I can’t live without this one:

http://wafflesoftware.net/hexpicker/

IT2Be:
When you want to know about color schemes you can go to adobe kuler at http://kuler.adobe.com/ .
Really great stuff!
To integrate this into the color picker of OS X and, like I did, use it together with Sweet Sixteen so that you can translate the themes into Hex as well, you can use Mondrianum.
You can find Mondrianum at http://www.lithoglyph.com/mondrianum .
Mondrianum is beta software right now and there is no pricing information available (as far as I know) right now.

Have fun…

Wow. Good stuff.