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This week's PotW is a simple, free, and amazingly handy utility for those of us who dabble with colors on the web. As most of you probably know, when setting a color in HTML and/or CSS, you can specify it by one of a handful of names, or reference it by its hex-encoded RGB value. So instead of "blue," you could use "#3300FF." Getting these hex-encoded values for a given color is simple in almost any graphics program. In my case, I use Photoshop Elements; select a color in the color picker, and its RGB value shoes up in the window.

However, Elements is a relatively large program, and I don't always have it running. Also, after picking a color, you also have to then select and copy the RGB value if you wish to use it. So I went looking for a third-party (freeware) RGB color selector that was faster to load and use. After looking at about 15 of them, I found one that really works perfectly for me -- ColorTagGen. This simple little app displays the standard Apple color selector, as well as its own dialog box. Choose a color in the selector, and you get an instant display of its RGB value, as well as the hex-encoded RGB value. There's also a very handy Copy HTML button, which puts the hex-encoded value on your clipboard, saving some mouse and keyboard work.

A simple little program, and there are probably another 25 like it that I didn't find in my brief search ... but ColorTagGen seems to be perfect for my occasional needs outside of Photoshop Elements.
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ColorTagGen - Simple HTML color converter
Authored by: gregraven on Oct 18, '05 11:29:36AM

Apple's Digital Color Meter.app comes with the operating system, and not only converts among color spaces, but also allows you to see what color is being used on your screen. All you need do is position the cursor over the color of interest.

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ColorTagGen - Simple HTML color converter
Authored by: milkmage on Oct 18, '05 12:50:27PM

There's a cool online tool set at visibone.com. Helpful if you need a hexvalue.. plus it shows you "versions" of your previous color selections (including text so you can see how readable one color is against a background of another)



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Another option
Authored by: vertigo on Oct 18, '05 05:18:50PM
My PowerBook (bought last May) came with Art Directors Toolkit 4 which handles this task and a lot more. The program was on the install disk as an add-on.

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ColorTagGen - Simple HTML color converter
Authored by: robertm on Oct 18, '05 07:49:15PM

What I like about ColorTagGen is that image pallettes can be pasted to/from the clipboard.

So I can design something in Photoshop that has the right swatches and gradients for a particular project. If there end up being a lot of very similar colours I can even add brief labels describing what each colour is for.

Another handy trick is to copy/paste in a photo or a screen capture that has colours you want to, ahem, recycle.



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