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Subject: eye dropper in Vue?

uncle808us opened this issue on Dec 24, 2008 · 10 posts
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uncle808us ( ) posted Wed, 24 December 2008 at 6:22 PM · edited Mon, 18 November 2024 at 12:13 AM

Is there an eye dropper to pick colors from the screen? If so where? Thanks.

MacBook Pro OSX El Capitan Ver 10.11.6

Angelsinger ( ) posted Wed, 24 December 2008 at 7:07 PM · edited Wed, 24 December 2008 at 7:09 PM

I never saw any such thing in Vue, uncle808us... But you can download a free, small utility called Absolute Color Picker. (Windows only, but there is no mention of it being compatible with Vista)... AnyHOO, it uses little resources, so you need not worry about opening it when Vue-ing. ;)

I've been using it for some time, and I must say the screenshots link doesn't do the utility justice. You can choose many viewing modes like these (there are more):

http://larashots.com/images/rendo/sphere.jpg  http://larashots.com/images/rendo/hue.jpg  http://larashots.com/images/rendo/rgb3d.jpg

After clicking in the little box with text in it and holding down your mouse, you can drag your mouse anywhere on your screen to get the color codes. It works for anything you see on your desktop, including the desktop itself. :p
 

uncle808us ( ) posted Wed, 24 December 2008 at 7:30 PM

I'm sorry I forgot to say I was on a Mac.

MacBook Pro OSX El Capitan Ver 10.11.6

Angelsinger ( ) posted Wed, 24 December 2008 at 8:28 PM · edited Wed, 24 December 2008 at 8:30 PM

Quote - I'm sorry I forgot to say I was on a Mac.

Dude, Mac comes pre-installed with the Digital Color Meter. (I miss my Mac... he died)!  :(

I thought you were on Windows because (as far as I know), Windows doesn't have a built-in color picker...

AnyHOO, go to your Applications folder -- Utilities -- DigitalColor Meter.
You can discover the color of anything on the screen with this.

Thar' she blows.

uncle808us ( ) posted Thu, 25 December 2008 at 9:38 AM

ARRRRRR. Thanks Matey.

MacBook Pro OSX El Capitan Ver 10.11.6

Rutra ( ) posted Thu, 25 December 2008 at 3:01 PM

Angelsinger, great tip about that color picker! Thanks! I've been wanting something like that for ages but, to tell you the truth, I hadn't even searched for it, I guess I just assumed it didn't exist... :-)

Angelsinger ( ) posted Thu, 25 December 2008 at 8:21 PM · edited Thu, 25 December 2008 at 8:21 PM

Quote - ...to tell you the truth, I hadn't even searched for it, I guess I just assumed it didn't exist... :-)

LOL... same here! All I could think when I finally learned about it was, "If only I had known about this sooner!"  :P :P

gillbrooks ( ) posted Fri, 26 December 2008 at 5:12 PM

Attached Link: Colour Cop

There's also 'ColorCop' which I've used for years.  Unfortunately, I think it's Windows only again but it's a really useful tool.  The magnify on the eyedropper is one of those things that I couldn't do without!

Gill

       

Angelsinger ( ) posted Sat, 27 December 2008 at 7:48 PM

Quote - There's also 'ColorCop' which I've used for years....The magnify on the eyedropper is one of those things that I couldn't do without!

SOLD***, to the lady in -- in -- (looks down to see what color I'm wearing, as I threw on just anything today sticking out tongue) -- RED!!

The features are AWESOME!! It's like AColorPicker and Colorzilla combined!
COOL recommendation, thankees!

gillbrooks ( ) posted Sun, 28 December 2008 at 9:02 AM

😄
That goes back to a long time ago when I used to make Desktop Themes and XP Styles.  I used that invaluable tool to get a selection of colours from the wallpaper to use for the windows colours so they complimented the background.   Seems so tedious when I think about it now !!

The picker still comes in handy for textures now.....

Gill

       

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