[pinbot]

i am looking for a simple app to find colors, like the option you have in photoshop or illustrator.

Say you have a color. to get a variant, i c&p the code, say #aacb23, in the photoshop color picker window and tweak it a little to get a different version of the color.

But it's a bit silly to start Photshop just to find a color. There's plenty of colorpicker type apps, but none in which in can C&P a code....

[Visnaut]

I highly reccomend Color Schemer Studio

http://www.colorschemer.com/osx_info.php

[Chuckit]

I don't know when you got your computer, but my PowerBook came with a program called Art Directors Toolkit that can do this.

[hwdor]

Try ColourMod. It comes in several flavors (Widget, Konfabulator, stand alone, etc.) and allows you to cut and paste. And its free!

[zro]

Try this.

http://joshuaink.com/blog/400/free-os-x-apps#c005815


The OS ColorPicker has a few nifty tricks up its sleeves. Plus it supports third party pickers. I suggest using it where ever you can.



Sweet, check this out...

http://www.apple.com/applescript/gui...gs/sbrt.04.htm

set theColor to (choose color)
set the clipboard to my RGB2HTML(theColor)

on RGB2HTML(RGB_values)
-- NOTE: this sub-routine expects the RBG values to be from 0 to 65536
set the hex_list to ¬
{"0", "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", ¬
"9", "A", "B", "C", "D", "E", "F"}
set the the hex_value to ""
repeat with i from 1 to the count of the RGB_values
set this_value to (item i of the RGB_values) div 256
if this_value is 256 then set this_value to 255
set x to item ((this_value div 16) + 1) of the hex_list
set y to item (((this_value / 16 mod 1) * 16) + 1) of the hex_list
set the hex_value to (the hex_value & x & y) as string
end repeat
return ("#" & the hex_value) as string
end RGB2HTML