January 30th, 2006
Colour for me is an annoyance, I know what goes together, but can’t actually make them up. It normally takes me ages trialing hex values to get something that doesn’t look awful, even in primary school I was always the one who mixed so much together that my palette more often than not ended up a brown-purply soup.
That’s where Colour Lovers comes in. There are a plethora of hex colours that go together! Sorted!
I’m considering creating a Shade Lovers site that deals with varying shades of grey. I’m a stickler for semantics, so if I ever catch so much as a whiff of #000, #fff and their friends then I’m going to be sending an angry email to the Colour Lovers website.
February 2nd, 2006 at 8:18 pm
this is why photoshop is such a lovely thing. it gives all the hex codes with any shade/hue you could ever want.
February 5th, 2006 at 6:28 am
Aranil, in KDE you can add this handy little colour picker to your taskbar. Click it and then click on anything on the desktop, whether a Konqueror/Firefox window, or a file browser, or a game, whatever and you then get a popup with a list of not only hex values but also an option to view the pixel, CMYK, RGB and HSV values. Then, finally you can choose to copy whatever information about the colour you’ve picked to the KDE klipper (the clipboard), which you can save multiple entries to.
Oh, and The GIMP does the same that Photoshop does in your example.
Yea, just had to show that free software kicks butt.