ColorPic

Ever tried using a color picker on a high resolution monitor? It's impossible. That's why this color picker has a magnifier attached. Grab palettes of up to 16 colors at once and use four advanced color mixers to select a spectrum of possibilities.

Version 4 is now available, with the following features:

• Easily pick any color from the screen
• Totally 100% Free!
• No popup adverts or spyware, it really is free
• Colors shown in hex and decimal
• Adjust Hue, Saturation, Value, Red, Green and Blue values
• Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black percentages shown
• Easy to use with any other program
• Resizable magnification area
• Overlay a grid for quick colorpicker alignment
• Use arrow keys to nudge mouse pointer
• Save multiple palettes of colors automatically
• WebSafe Colors and names displayed
• Snap to nearest WebSafe color
• Point sample, 3x3 or 5x5 pixel color sampling
• Adjust color with four advanced color mixers
• Edit colorpicker values after selection easily
• Easy to use collapsible sections
• Works with Firefox, Internet Explorer, Photoshop and any other application

To the left you can see ColorPic in use selecting colors, but don't just take our word for it:

Sitepoint.com writes "...few have pulled all the right functionality together as usefully and elegantly as Nico Westerdale's ColorPic."

Clubic.com writes "Tout web designer qui se respecte se doit de l'avoir sous la main." in its French review of ColorPic.

Photoshop-Weblog.de writes "Ein geniales kleines Programm!" in its German review of ColorPic.

ColorPic runs on all Windows systems: 95/98/NT/2000/Me/XP, it's only 501K.

The Color Picker, or Colour Picker if you're from my native country, is freeware which means that you may use and copy it to your friends on an informal basis.