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LiquidColor: Save Color Codes In Groups & Search For Them By Keyword [Mac]

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LiquidColor is a Mac app worth $0.99 in the Mac App store and is completely different from other color picking tools available out there. It provides an easy way to catalog different color schemes you have created for multiple projects. Instead of opening your mock-ups and templates each time (in heavy-to-load apps like Photoshop) to look up a color, this light weight utility lets you record them, organize them into profiles and associate keywords with them. The tool saves RGB values and Hex codes for each color code. You can add as many profiles as you like and add as many colors to a single profile. Read More

ColorMania Color Picker Lets You Zoom In To Select Individual Pixels

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When I got my first computer,  256 colors was the highest number of colors the computer systems of that day were able to display. 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 range for designing graphics is not an easy task. Choosing the right or wrong color can mean the success and failure of your project. Previously, we have covered a lot of color picking applications, such as Instant Color Picker, an application for Windows that has 6 different and unique shade extraction tools, allowing you to find the right color shade, and Just Color Picker, an application with a host of color picking features to view, as well as customize chosen colors to fit your design. Today, we have another great color picker called ColorMania. It is an advanced utility for picking colors that is created especially for web-designers, graphic artists and application developers. Various color modes are supported by ColorMania, and it allows you to pick any color available on your screen. More on the features of ColorMania after the break. Read More

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

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Yesterday we covered a Cydia tweak by the name of LockDate that 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 pretty forlorn and unattended. Looks like we weren’t the only ones to notice that, as today ColorClock has been released, which will allow you to change the color of the lockscreen date as well as time. The best thing about the tweak is the range of colors that you can choose for the time display, as ColorClock lets you change the clock’s color with the help of RGB value sliders, thus allowing a staggeringly vast number of colors to be used on the lockscreen of your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. Read on to know all about this small, but useful, Cydia tweak. Read More

Pick Colors & Create Directional Gradient Images, Save To Clipboard

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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 developers create an indefinite amount of color combinations to produce the most suitable combinations they want to use on their software and webpages. We have covered various color picker apps in the past, such as ColorHexa and Gradient (for Mac), just to name a few. Gradient Actualizer is yet another portable color picker utility that can help you create a gradient image of your choice, then use it on your projects or photo editors to make any further enhancements. Read on for more details. Read More

Easy Color Replace: Change Specific Colors In Images

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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 people off. Previously, we have covered some great applications that enable you to pick the right color for your project. Some of these applications, such as Pictures to Color and Color Finder, allow you to extract colors from images, ColorToy lets you find the HEX and RGB values of a random color, and Instant Eyedropper enables you to view color values of items on your desktop and copy them to clipboard. Easy Color Replacer is an application that allows you to replace colors in existing pictures. More on this unique tool after the jump. Read More

Apply Different Color Schemes To Webpages & Elements [Firefox]

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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. After you’ve installed Color Transform, a toolbar is added right next to the address bar which provides access to multiple color schemes and transformations. The add-on includes 12 color schemes, such as White on black, Green on green, Pink on purple, Cyan on blue and so on. Moreover, you will be able to apply 16 different color transforms, which include increasing or decreasing the contrast, decreasing lighting, inverting color hue, decreasing or increasing saturation options and more. Read More

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

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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 so many colors, how to pick out exactly the one that you want? Previously, we have covered some very useful application regarding color management. Some of these applications, such as Pictures to Color and Color Finder, which allow you to extract colors from images, ColorToy that lets you find the HEX and RGB values of a random color and Instant Eyedropper that lets enables you to view color values of items on your desktop and copy them to clipboard. Today, we have another application to fulfill your color management needs, called Color Express, that lets you choose colors using a classic HSB picker, Hue Square or Hue Circle. Moreover, it allows you to extract colors from images and your desktop screen, and blend two colors together. Keep reading to find out more about Color Express after the break. Read More

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

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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 and white and allows you to define any region where you want to retain color. Comparable in functionality to InstantPhotoColor, this app is far richer in features. It allows you to adjust the brush size, softness and opacity, and you can adjust the degree of luminance, contrast and saturation when color is added back to the image. Additionally, the app has the same color effects as did Big Aperture; both apps have a similar interface and you should be able to navigate it without a problem. Read More

Folder Colorizer: Change Icon Color Of Any Folder In Windows

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While searching through a huge number of folders, it is common for users to miss the one thing that 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 for folders chosen by Microsoft to be used in Windows Explorer is pleasing to the eyes, but it also makes differentiating between all the folders a difficult task. Whenever you look inside a folder containing a large number of sub folders, they all look the same to you because they are of the same color. What i have done to tackle that problem is choose a different icon for all the frequently used icons, but that requires you to separately access the settings of each folder and change their icon. It can be quite useful, however, if the number of folders is huge, it can turn out to be quite a tedious task. Folder Colorizer is an application for Windows that enables you to easily categorize and differentiate folders from each other by applying a different color to each folder, straight from the right click context menu of folders. More on Folder Colorizer after the break. Read More

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

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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, a simple tool, can be of great help. It provides web developers with detailed information about colors in almost any format. All you have to do is, simply type the color code, and ColorHexa will give you a detailed description. It will also automatically convert the color to its equivalent value in Hexadecimal, Binary, RGB, CMYK, HSL, HSV, CIE-Lab, Hunter-Lab, XYZ and so on. Furthermore, ColorHexa allows you to blend colors and create gradients between two or more colors. This tool also generates matching color schemes relevant to a particular color, such as complementary, split complementary, analogous, triadic, tetradic and monochromatic colors. Read More

Identify Colors Detected From Mouse Cursor With Colorblind Assistant

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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 adjust color intensity to suit their needs. We earlier covered an application known as Washer, which helped reduce this problem. This time we have another useful application for people suffering from color blindness, labelled Colorblind Assistant. It detects colors from your mouse pointer by providing you with a written name of the color on which your cursor is placed. Moreover, it also provides other useful data about the color, such as the RGB (Red, Green and Blue) values, bar graphs, brightness and saturation. The utility comes with a zoom pane for fine pixel detection. Read More

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

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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 projects. Plastiliq PixelPicker has its own interface and a memory footprint of around 31 MB, but if you are looking for something lighter, you can check out Instant Eyedropper. It is a system tray based application with a memory foot print of only around 1.2 MB, which allows you to view color values and automatically copy the values to clipboard in multiple formats, without having to access any interface. More on Instant Eyedropper after the break. Read More

View Color Values In Multiple Formats With ColorToy

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One of the things enthrall graphics designers the most, is the perfect combination and blend of colors. For this very reason, HEX and RGB values of colors help them out. Inputting a determined HEX color value is easier a job instead of manual adjusting the colors. In addition, HEX values make it lucid to import and export color palettes between various tools. We have covered tools to help you extract HEX and RGB values of colors from images, for instance, both Pictures to Color and Color Finder provide HEX value extraction and a lot more. However, if you want a simplified solution and only require to 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 its RGB values in Floating Point, RGB or HTML syntax, or through separate sliders for each. Once the required color is selected, ColorToy enables you to view formatted results of the value of colors in Floating Point, Decimal, RGB, HEX, Delphi, C++ Builder etc, form. You can copy any value to clipboard by simply clicking it from the list. More details to follow after the break. Read More

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

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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 the app - either from the menu bar or from the keyboard shortcut - mesh magnifier replaces your cursor and actively picks the color of whichever area you hover it over. The app can give you the color code in several different formats, and will work regardless of which apps are running. Read More

InstantPhotoColor: Color Images Without Losing Their Details [Mac]

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Finding apps, desktop, mobile or web, that add color filters to your images is no big deal. What’s slightly harder to do is to find an easy-to-use app that lets you color just a portion of an image without losing the image details themselves. InstantPhotoColor is a free Mac app that does just that. It has a single function, and that is, to color your images(s). The app saves images to PNG or JPG format. Using the built-in brush tool and the color selector, pick out a color, and drag the brush over whichever area you want to color. Read More

Color Finder: Extract All Colors’ HEX & ARGB Values From An Image

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Use of the right colors gives a lot of appeal to a website. In graphic design projects, colors are of a major importance, since your use of colors decides the end-look of the website. Suppose, you spot a color in an image that you really like, and want to use in your website’s color palette, but how will you find the exact HEX code of that particular color? Colors Finder is an open source application that lets you list the' HEX values for all colors in an image. It will help you in fine tuning the HEX color codes for your website. The application lists the Color, its Hexadecimal value, its OLE code, the RGC values and HUE, and Brightness and Saturation ratios. You can add the image from a folder, copy it from clipboard or directly analyze an image on the web by providing its URL. Read more about Colors Finder after the break. Read More

Picuzo Editor Is Drawing Tool & Picture Editor Combined In One

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Remember a decade ago when we were fond of creating, drawing and editing images, and all we had was Windows very own Paint? Internet has revolutionized things in all aspects, and today, we have multitude of web applications to perform almost every task that we can think of. One such web application is Picuzo Editor, which lets you create and edit images, make drawings and manipulate images, all online. You can create vector art with this web service as well. It also lets you import your photo albums from your Facebook account, Dropbox, Picasa, DeviantArt, Flickr etc, as well as your hard drive. You can save your edited images and drawing on Facebook, your PC, as well as the Picuzo Editor server. Read More

Pictures to Color: Extract And Save Colors Used In Image

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In graphic design projects, colors have a core importance, since the colors you use define how the design is going to look. Choosing dull or boring colors can make even fabulous designs look abysmal. Suppose you have an image comprising a lot of different color shades and effects. How are you going to differentiate each color? It would require both an artistic mind and the right set of tools. This is where color pickers come into the story. Color pickers are a handy way to choose color patterns to be used in your projects. Today we have a very small yet powerful color application for you. Simply labelled as Pictures to Color, it is a lightweight tool that is designed to let you extract all the colors from a given image on its integrated color palette. Moreover, it also generates HEX color code and RGB, HSB and HSL values for each extracted color, so that you can easily use them in graphic design projects and web style sheet documents. Furthermore, it has the ability to read all major image file formats, including PSD, JPG, PNG etc, and  save the entire color palette in HTML format. What's more, the application is portable, which means you can store it in your USB flash and take it with you anywhere you want. Could it get any better? Read More

Washer Helps Color Blind People View Monitor Screen In Grey Color

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People with color blindness often find it hard to differentiate between different elements of applications and webpages that are in green or red color. Most applications, which are designed to reduce the color effects to address the inability of perceiving colors, cater to only specific type of color blindness. Thus, users have to manually adjust the color intensity settings in order to use such applications. Washer is a portable application that provides an overlying window to view certain parts of the monitor screen in grey color. This can help color blind users to easily read text, view images, webpages, applications, etc with having to fiddle around with color specific settings. Read More

How To Change Windows 8 Metro Start Screen Background Colors

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The new metro UI based Windows 8 keeps green as primary background color for numerous user interface elements, ranging from Start Screen, Search, Share, and Setting pane, to User tiles and Login screen. If you’re into customizing Windows 8 new user interface elements, you might like to change the background color of Start Screen, right-side pane, login screen, etc. In this post, we will cover 2 methods of changing Windows 8 Start Screen, Login Screen, Search, Share, and Settings pane. Read More