Advertisements
As a huge fan of Leopard Preview, I always try to do my image editing process with Preview. And I guess today is my lucky day, I discovered how to pick color from anywhere of your Mac screen with only Preview in hex format.
You could see the benefits here: Preview is fast, rarely crash and most importantly: it's free.
Here is the step by step tutorial on how to set up the color picker:
Though the color picker setting is a bit complicated and troublesome, but when it comes to using it, it comes in really handy. Can you see the Magnifier icon next to that long, ugly color bar? Click on it, move it around to pick the color of pixel of the screen you want and here you go, the specified hex code of the picked color are shown plus the nearby colors.
I know you will love it. Mind leaving portion of your love in the comment box?
Categories:
Imaging,
Leopard,
Utilities
Tags:
ColorPicker,
Leopard,
Preview
Some articles taken from our resource base, tightly related to current article, to empower you with more knowledge on tweaking the most out of your Mac.
Nice! What's that other icon you have on the colour pane?
It's called Mondrianum which is used to get popular color scheme from the web. And don't ask me why I installed it. :-)
I was doing exactly the same using an application "Color Picker Pro" but my trial license expire just a few days ago. This method is better and free! Thanks a lot :)
That's a bad tip. There are only 214 web-safe colors, so you'll only get the hex of a color that's close to the color you clicked. You loose much information this way. Better get http://wafflesoftware.net/hexpicker/ , which is free and doesn't have this problem.
I agree with Nico, very bad tip. You're not getting the hex for the color you chose, just one sorta kinda like it. Nico, thanks for posting that link, looks handy.
Also, you could use DigitalColor Meter, which ships with your os, and is in Applications>Utilities
love your work !
Unfortunately, I cannot find this function in the Preview app on Snow Leopard...
finferflu: you can still bring up the colors pane in Snow Leopard, here's how: Preview Color Tool in Snow Leopard
I wanted to find a upgrade for my Applemac iBook I did not success, What do you think I need to do??
Leave a Comment