Color Cop - Useful tool for web designers and programmers

If you are a web designer or often work with graphic elements, it is certain that you need to know what the exact hex or RGB values of a color.
To simplify your work, a few months back we presented some simple tools such as Instant-Eyedropper, Pixeur and Anry Color Mixer, here is another very simple (66Kb) tool, but with more options – Color Cop.
Color Cop is a multi-purpose color picker that features an eyedropper, magnifier, variable magnification levels, 3 by 3 and 5 by 5 average sampling, snap to websafe, color history, and a complementary color palette. Color Cop will convert RGB decimal values to Hexadecimal color codes. It has color code support for HTML Hex, Delphi Hex, PowerBuilder, Visual Basic Hex, Visual C++ Hex, RGB int, and RGB float.
Features:

• Convert RGB Decimal values to HTML Hexadecimal
• Custom Color Picker
• Eyedropper
• Persistent settings
• Convert Hexadecimal to RGB Decimal values
• Random Color Generator
• Reverse Color Option
• Magnifier with 1x-16x zoom
• 3 by 3 and 5 by 5 average sampling
• Snap to WebSafe
• Detect WebSafe color
• HTML, Delphi, Visual Basic, Visual C++ and Powerbuilder Hex color support
• Mouse wheel support
• Upper and Lower case Hex
• Collapseable dialog
• Color History
• Complementary Color Palette
• Relative position measurements

Color Cop is absolutely free and runs on Windows 98, Me, 2000, NT, XP and Vista (source)
File size: 66Kb / License: Free
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Free color picker and color mixing tool

Anry color picker is a simple and very efficient application for designers. This utility capture the color value of any screen pixel and displays its value in a variety of formats such as HTML, RGB, HEX, HSB/HSV, and HSL.. just point your mouse anywhere on the screen and you'll be informed about the color of the pixel. The 3x/9x zoom really helps you pinpoint things specifically instead of generally. The software required no installationFeatures of theo application:

• Five formats of color value: HTML, RGB, HEX, HSB/HSV, and HSL.
• 3x and 9x zoom of any screen area.
• Picked color history. Saving picked colors for future use..
• RGB and RYB color wheels display triads and complementary colors..
• Two harmonious color finders..
• RGB color mixer..
• Optional stay-on-top..
• User-defined hotkey to capture color info (Alt+X by default)..
• Copying the color value or its part to the clipboard just by button click..
• Multilingual interface Bulgarian, Czech (v 1.7), Dutch, English, Finnish (v 1.7), French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish (v 1.7), and Turkish (v 1.7).

License: Free /File size: 285Kb (v1.6) / Developer page / Download

Create color palettes from image

Colors from pictures always look great. At Pic2color, you can create color palettes from your image. Option to upload images from your computer or from a url.

GradientStudio - Quickly and easily create colorful gradients

GradientStudio is an application for creating colorful gradients quickly and easily. Lots of options allow you to produce exciting and eye-catching designs. This application is suitable for creating gradient for web site.

Features include:

Export colors to text in HTML

Export colors to create an HTML table

Customizable gradient control methods

Add a gradient to an image

Render in color or grayscale

Set the exact position of any gradient key

Export image as bitmap or JPEG

Individual RGB controls for curve gradient type

Publisher:Paul Alan Freshney

File size: 600kb, Updated: 24/11/2007, License: Free.

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Pixeur – An essential tool for designers

Never be curious about any color you see on your screen. With Pixeur you can easily view the color value RGB, Hex, and Long value of any color or pixel you see on the screen.

This free tool is very helpful for designers to find color values. Just drag the ‘Target icon’ over the desired color and see the values of HEX, RGB or CMYK. Pixeur will also keep a history of all colors you have selected, so going back is as simple as choosing the color from the Color History list.

Some features:

- Select any color on the screen

- Go back to any color with the Color History

- Support for Hue, Saturation, and Brightness

- Added 500 named colors

- Color History can be exported and saved and then recalled later

- Easily copy values to the clipboard

- Smart Zoom window for ease of selecting colors

- Added Long Value the to Copy As menu

Requirement - Windows 98 / ME / NT / 2K / XP / 2K3 / Vista

File size: 1.4M (Version: 3.0.0.5)

License - Free - Download

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Identify the color code of an image

Identifying the color code of an image on the screen is not an easy task. Usually it involves a multi step process and is time consuming. But this tool is able to find out HTML, RGB or HEX color of any pixel on the screen with just a single mouse click. This little tool is very useful for webmasters.

Instant Eyedropper is a free software tool which will identify the color code and automatically paste to the clipboard. Just Press and hold the left mouse button to the Instant Eyedropper icon in the system tray and move the mouse pointer to the pixel whose color you want to identify and Release the mouse button. The clipboard now contains the color code - in HTML format (or any other format that you have previously specified). It can be pasted and used in any text or HTML editor or the Color Picker tool of Photoshop.

Right click on icon to select the color format you want – HTML (e.g.: #FF00FF), HEX (e.g.: DB5D24) or RGB (e.g.: 22: 80: 220) etc. You can also select color code resolution, Auto copy color-codes to the clipboard and HTML color code customization (e.g. #AABBCC or #aabbcc etc.)

Supported color formats are HTML, HEX, Delphi Hex, Visual Basic Hex, RGB and HSB

Current Version: 1.75. Size: 375KB, OS: Windows NT, 2000, 2003 and XP.

Download Instant Eyedropper from - http://instant-eyedropper.com/

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