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Preview: Handy Color Picker [Leopard]

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.

Setting Up

Here is the step by step tutorial on how to set up the color picker:

  1. Open Preview without opening any images file. This way, only the menubar of Preview will be shown on your Mac
  2. While the menubar is showing Preview, hit keystrokes Shift Command C to reveal one of Preview tools: Show Colors
  3. Inside Colors Pane, choose Color Palettes which is the third pane from the list of tools
  4. There you will see the palette chooser. In order to display the hex format of the color, you need to choose palette named Web Safe Colors
  5. Now, you've done the setting

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