Easy Pickings
Here’s a quick follow up to Barry’s post on Color Palettes for all of the web designers out there. When it comes to translating design to the web, one of the most annoying speed bumps I run into is converting RGB color values to hex. It’s too much of a pain in the ass to load up Photoshop every time you need to find the appropriate translation, especially when it comes to minor fixes done directly in style sheets.
The solution? Hex Color Picker from Waffle Software. Check it out:
You can pick your friends, your nose and any element on screen.
The fine people over at Waffle have written a hex plug in for OS X’s color picker. This means you can fine-tune a RGB, HSB or even Crayon (WTF?) value and find out it’s hex value in one click. Another huge advantage of using the Mac’s built-in color picker is sampling from any on-screen element. The Potatochop is confined to only grabbing pixels loaded inside of it’s run-time work area.
Sweet hexadecimal bliss! In addition to being free, the code is open source under the BSD license.