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Absolute Color Picker to find that cotton pickin’ color!

Posted by dvanarsd on September 21, 2008

Absolute Color Picker exe, from Eltima Software

“Absolute Color Picker is freeware that lets you select a color anywhere on your screen or by means of various color models and convert it into HTML-based hexadecimal representation. Being a great compact color designer it features a free color picker, color scheme generator, color history builder, color scheme management system, and screen color grabber. It offers a number of unique extended color models HSB Brightness, HSB Radial, HSB Hue, RGB 3D Sphere, HSB Hue2, HSB Pens, HSB Hexagons and HSB Palettes. With many predefined color palettes and a history of up to 12 selected colors, it lets you customize brightness, hue, saturation and other parameters separately to match your selection and compare current and previous color. Absolute Color Picker is 100% compatible with most graphics packages and is a great and compact choice for professional designers, freelancers and home users.”

For those of us making web sites, the person who wants ‘you know, that color on that program up in the corner on that little drawing’ — well, that person can drive us crazy trying to match what they want.  Now, we can, with Absolute.

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