[thelist] Color pickers

[Tony Crockford]

At 20:46 on Monday, 03 May 2004, Jakob Dölling wrote:

> Morn Folks:
>
> Jakob Dölling wrote:
>>
>> Hello:
>>
>> I am looking for a color picker that does not only snoop the color. I
>> also want to have the complemetary of the captured color. I tried the
>> color wheel of Corel Paint 11, but the results were not great. Is there
>> any software out there that snoops the color of a pixel and tells me
>> instantly its complementery color?
>
> To clarify myself: I am looking for a programme that snoops a pixel
> colour under the mouse cursor and tells me the the contrast colour in
> RGB (WebRGB) and CMYK. Any recommondations?

Colorimpact will give you a range of color complements, contrasts etc  
gives values in RGB HEX HSB and HSL and has a screen color picker.

I'd recommend it.

http://www.tigercolor.com

hth