Tag Results For: color

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ColorMania Color Picker Lets You Zoom In To Select Individual Pixels

When I got my first computer,  256 colors was the most it could show. Today, 32 million colors are the standard for any PC. Even smart phones are capable of displaying millions of colors in high resolution. If you are developing a website, or doing any other designing project, picking colors from such a huge [...] (more…)

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ColorClock: Customize Time & Date Color On iPhone Lock Screen [Cydia]

Yesterday we covered a Cydia tweak by the name of LockDate, which allows users to personalize the lockscreen of their iOS device by making almost any change to the date displayed on an iPhone when the screen is locked. If you used that tweak, you might have noticed that it left the lockscreen time looking [...] (more…)

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Pick Colors & Create Directional Gradient Images, Save To Clipboard

Every developer aims to create an attractive and good-looking software or website, because, as the saying goes, you catch more flies with honey (even if its just in appearance). However, this eye candy is only achievable with the best use of color combination and a perfect blend. That’s where gradient applications jump in. They let [...] (more…)

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Easy Color Replace: Change Specific Colors In Images

Choosing the right color while working on a graphics project, such as a website, is a must for making it look pleasing to the eye. Making sure that people spend more time on your webpage is a hard job, and a slight mistake in terms of graphics being too dull or too bright can turn [...] (more…)

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Apply Different Color Schemes To Webpages & Elements [Firefox]

Color Transform is a simple Firefox add-on that enables you to apply multiple colors schemes and transforms to webpages according to your preference. For instance, you might want to reduce the brightness of a page, invert its lighting, change its color scheme or more. These changes can either be applied for reading or printing purposes. [...] (more…)

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Color Express: A Comprehensive Tool To Pick, Extract And Blend Colors

When I first started using the computer, the 256 colors of Windows 95 viewable on a Pentium 1 was considered a big deal after the black and white display supported by pre-Pentium 386 and 486 computers. These days, however, the number of colors viewable on a computer screen are in millions. So, when there are [...] (more…)

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Color Splash Smart: Add Color To Selected Parts Of An Image [Mac]

Late last  year, we reviewed Big Aperture, a Mac app worth $ 9.99 (Currently available for $1.99) in the Mac App store that allowed you to add depth of field, lighting and bokeh effects to any photo. Color Splash Smart is a free Mac App from the same developer that changes an image to black [...] (more…)

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Folder Colorizer: Change Icon Color Of Any Folder In Windows

While searching through a huge number of folders, it is common for users to miss the one one they are looking for. This is due to the fact that, when faced with a lot of similar looking items, the ones with the same color are categorized together by the human brain. The default yellow color [...] (more…)

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ColorHexa: Comprehensive Color Tool With Support For Gradient Creation [Web]

When graphic designers and web developers design websites, they come across colors in multiple formats, such as RGB, HSL, Hexadecimal, HSL, CMYK and more. Finding the perfect color for your websites might not be a difficult task, but finding the exact match in a different format can sometimes be a problem. This is where ColorHexa, [...] (more…)

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Design Color Schemes From A Single Color In Ubuntu With Agave

Agave is a Linux application for easily designing and saving color schemes. It provides users with the option to select web safe colors, Gnome icon palette, Visibone or Tango theme Palette. Once selected, you can generate color schemes from a single color selected from the given graph and save color schemes using the Add (+) [...] (more…)

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Identify Colors Detected From Mouse Cursor With Colorblind Assistant

People suffering from color blindness cannot always differentiate between different elements of applications and webpages that are in green or red shades, including both text and background color. Most applications, which are designed to reduce the color effects, cater for only some types of color blindness. This means that users end up having to manually [...] (more…)

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Instant Eyedropper Is A System Tray Based Tool To View Color Codes

Yesterday, we covered Plastiliq PixelPicker, an application that allows you to view color codes in 10 different formats, such as RGB, ARM, HTML, CMYK, HEX etc. It can detect the color of items on your desktop and lets you view its view in a lot of formats, which can be quiet useful during web designing [...] (more…)

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Plastiliq PixelPicker: View Color Codes Of Desktop Items In 10 Formats

Picking the right color for the right job can do wonders for your presentation. Using the right or wrong colors – say, for your website – can make or break the mood of the visitor to keep browsing through your page or switch to another one. Some days ago, we covered ColorToy, an application that [...] (more…)

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View Color Values In Multiple Formats With ColorToy

Previously, we have covered Pictures to Color and Color Finder to help you extract HEX and RGB values of colors from images. However, if you want to simply find the values of a random color, give ColorToy a try. It is a portable application that allows you to select and preview a color by defining [...] (more…)

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“Pick” Color Code In 16 Formats From Any Object On Your Screen [Mac]

Many photo editors let you pick colors from any part of an open image, but few apps allow you to do this universally, i.e., on any part of your screen, regardless of which app is active or what webpage you have open. Pick is a Mac app that is a universal color picker. Once you launch [...] (more…)