Often when working on your latest Windows or web app you’ll come across a situation that involves identifying the colour of a button, icon or some other control in your application. This process often involves taking a screen shot of your app, loading it in to Photoshop and using the eye dropper tool to identify your colour. This is long winded and frankly boring.
We’ve made this process much easier using a neat little .Net system tray application we’ve created. The app runs in your system tray, you click and hold your mouse on its icon, drag over the top of the colour you wish to grab, and then let go to copy the hexadecimal code of your selected colour to your clipboard. It couldn’t be easier.
Atlas Colour Picker Screenshot
We’ve created a video showing the colour picker in action, here’s the source code if you want to see how it works and/or modify it and here’s the executable if you just want to use it.
Support for RGB colours would be a nice feature to add, as would support for Windows 7 as this isn’t supported due to the new style system tray. If you do make any changes to the code send it on to us and we’ll make it available via this blog post acknowledging your work individually of course.
Love the Atlas Team.
P.S. We’ve also created a neat Flash WordPress plug in to assist you in modifying your themes via the administration panel that we’ll upload in the coming weeks so keep your eyes peeled for that if you use WordPress.
