AdesClrPicker is a light windows application that helps you to do color picking without the need of Photoshop all the times.

Why color picking?

We capture colors for all sort of reason, mostly to trace particular color codes for blending. Trying to blend contents to Google AdSense (or any contextual ads) is a very common routine if we are constantly experimenting with ad units of varies sizes and colors to see which give the best results. Let the focus be on choosing the ad unit analyzing, tedious color picking should be make simple and fast.

Using AdesClrPicker

I’m not going to discuss in details on How to use AdesClrPicker or what are its complete features because Abdylas has already provide some comprehensive ones. I’ll further discuss how I personally think about the application.

It’s Light

The application is only 1.04MB, it is definitely lighter to load compared to loading a Photoshop (18.6MB) just for color picking. AdesClrPicker can also be preload on Windows startup..

Region of color picking

Liimitation of Photoshop Eyedropper - you can only trace colors within a canvas region , anything outside you will have to print screen, paste in back in a Photoshop canvas.

AdesClrPicker let me trace any thing as long as it falls inside my monitor screen.

Speed Color picking

AdesClrPicker allows shortcut setting. You can set hotkeys for

• Activating / deactivation program
• Color capturing
• Displaying floating menu

I’m not really into using the hot keys for both Color Capturing and Floating Menu. Activating/deactivating the program does the trick most of the time. Here’s how I normally perform a color trace, quite fast though from my point of view:

1. Ctrl+Alt+A to launch
2. Left click on target to copy its color
3. Right click to close application (or ESC key)
4. Ctrl-V to paste it, Job’s done!

Bulk color picking

AdesClrPicker allows up to 10 color picking and have them stored accordingly for later use. That’s useful for experimenting colors during designing.

Verdict

This is a nice little application and definitely inside my Windows startup list as I’m going to use it very frequently. However Abdylas if you are reading this, a little small problem I encountered. Sometimes but not frequent, any colors I picked are all given as #FFFFFF (white).