Review Icon Design Tutorial Different Techniques for Grabbing Color from Anywhere on the Screen | Different Techniques for Grabbing Color from Anywhere on the Screen |
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| Written by Thomas Ponco | |
| Monday, 28 July 2008 | |
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Designers of all varieties was inspired by colors from any place, in many cases, the correct approach is on the screen you see. So, how can we seize these colors from the screen we use in our projects » Let us count the ways: The use of Photoshop tricks of the dropper If you double-click on the color of choice in Photoshop, and with color selection dialog box, you can sample the color box from the outside world, but only from the open Photoshop document. There is a trick, you can use in Photoshop, although the sample colors from anywhere on the screen. Select dropper tool. And then click and hold down the mouse button in an open Photoshop document. And the mouse button held down, then, you can drag the dropper tool outside the Photoshop files, sample colors from anywhere on the screen.
If you are on a Mac running Leopard, buried in the utilities folder in your Applications folder is an application, the so-called digital meters. Just choose what format you want to see the color (Web friendly hex code available), and then only move the mouse around on the screen. You will see a scaling in the first in the region you are in a Swatch color, color.
For Windows users, a free tool, the so-called colorpic so do the same thing, in fact, there are many more cool features. Things like, to save the palette and the ability to "fine-tuning." I'm sure there are many other great small software tools, for all platforms. If you have a favorite, please share!
Many times, colors, we are trying to grab from the site, we can use a small Firefox extension, for this so-called colorzilla. colorzilla increased by a small dropper to the bottom left corner of the browser window. You can click on it to activate it, then the mouse around the page pick-up colors. The icon of change, on behalf of the current color, and you can click on the "lock in" colors. The best part is you can right-click the icon and get a lot of options for copying, color code: Therefore, those who are the most common method, I this point. Honestly, since I am in Photoshop so much, I usually use only the first, even though I am sure that this is not the most effective. How can you folks do » |
