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Our Windows Color Picker tool has an inbuilt magnifier and allows you to save full palettes of colors.
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Colorpic misses the right resulotion
The color under the colorpic-cursor is quite another one than the color visible at the screen behind the cursor. It seems that colorpic sees about 240% more pixels than there are, so i never can reach the bottom-right corner of the screen.
Or, the other way around: If i point at the bottom-right of the screen then colorpic sees the color at a position about x=1300 from left side and y=about 600 from top. Computer = 3200 * 1600 resolution, windows 10, touch screen, track pad.
Colorpic misses the right resulotion
Same with me here. ColorPic doesn't show the pixels under the mouse but somewhere else.
Colorpic misses the right resulotion
Version 5 of the ColorPic will now ask you at startup if you're using a 4K monitor. This will adjust the position of the mouse for 4K monitors.
You can change this setting by editing the colorpic.ini file, found in the same folder that you installed the colorpic in.
Colorpic misses the right resulotion
I'm running Windows 10 build 17134 with a 1080p monitor. ColorPic never reflects the position of the cursor, no matter whether the 4K in the .ini is set to 0 or 1.
For example, in the screenshot my cursor is directly on the "Email Protector" icon, but ColorPic is showing the "Download" button (both are circled). Because of this issue, it's quite a trick to get to the pixel that you want, and there is a large portion of the screen that it can't access at all.
I'm extremely disappointed, as I just licensed two copies from Bitsdujour.com. I should've checked it out more thoroughly first. :(
Colorpic misses the right resulotion
Try this:
Rightclick in your C:\Program Files (x86) folder on Colorpick.exe.
Select Properties, then go to tab Compatibility.
Here, click on Change High DPI settings.
Then check the option "Disable display scaling on high DPI settings".
Click OK OK.
Try using Colorpic now.
Does it work now?
Colorpic misses the right resulotion
If you edit the ColorPic.ini file you can change the XOffset and YOffset values. That will allow you to calibrate any monitor.
Colorpic misses the right resulotion
This led me to the solution. In Windows 10, I followed your instructions but instead, I checked "Use this setting to fix scaling problems...."
That solved it for me.