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What Is It?

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Instant Eyedropper is a small utility to identify the colour of a particular screen pixel. It sits in the system tray when started and has no main GUI only an options window and a small window attached to the mouse cursor when identifying a colour.

A ProReviewer Mini-me Review

This is an overview of the program and not a more detailed review

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Why Would You Want It?

A quick and easy way to get identify screen colours in the various colour definition systems used for common computer applications using a Portable Application.

The supported colour formats are:

  • HTML
  • HEX
  • Delphi Hex
  • Visual Basic Hex
  • RGB
  • HSB

What Does It Do - The Essentials?

Summary:

  • Identifies the colour of any screen pixel

 

Pros: What’s Good?

  • Freeware

  • Portable
  • Intuitive & Easy to Use
  • Supports all main colour code formats
  • Sensible options

 

What the Developer Says:

The developers site gives the following information:

Save your time

Identification the color code of an object on the screen is usually an involved, multistep process: You press the Print Screen key to copy a screenshot to the clipboard, load a graphics-editing program, create a new file, paste the screenshot from the clipboard, zoom in on the object, use the "Pick Color" tool, and finally copy the HTML code of the color to the clipboard.

Webmasters may repeat this operation many times a day. Just imagine how much time can be saved by using Instant Eyedropper to do the same thing With a Single Click!

More Information can be found here:

http://instant-eyedropper.com/

Using Instant Eyedropper

Click on the System Tray Icon with the left mouse button and hold

(Click on any picture to show full size)

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Drag the mouse target to the required pixel (target shown with the blue arrow)

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The window to the right of the target shows the area of the screen and the code for the colour in the chosen format, this can be seen better on the next screenshot:

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Releasing the left mouse button copies the code to the clipboard ready for use where ever you need it.

The System Tray Right Click Menu

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Here you can set the colour code format options as well as access the |Options screen help file or Exit the program.

The Options Window

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The options are self explanatory

Help File

There is a minimal help file included but, as noted earlier, use of the utility is simple.

What are the Technical Details & Compatibility?

Name Instant Eyedropper
Software Version 1.55
Release Date 1 Dec 2006
Compatibility NT/2000/XP/2003
Homepage http://instant-eyedropper.com/
Download Download Instant Eyedropper
Download Size 415Kb
OS Reviewed On Windows XP Pro
Size on Disk 1,038kB
Memory Use 4,196K
Review Date April 2008
License Freeware

 

 

What is the My Free Review Experience?

Very simple to use and worth keeping as part of your Portable Freeware collection.My opinion is:

Useful - Simple - Easy to Use

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5 Responses to “Instant Eyedropper - Identify Screen Colours to use in Graphics or Web Applications”
  1. Job (1 comments.) LITHUANIA Windows XP Internet Explorer 7.0 says:

    Nice tips, i found all information i was looking for, i will use some of them.

  2. Ken - Web Designer (1 comments.) UNITED KINGDOM Windows XP Internet Explorer 7.0 says:

    what a nice tool, thanks for the recommendation, from now on i won’t have to open up Photoshop for small tasks like this.

    Ken - web designer

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  5. Flash Web Design(new comment) INDIA Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 3.0.10 says:

    I like the solutions provided by Instant Eyedropper. Surely I will use it for identifying various screen colours. I would further say that this effective tool is mandatory for web designers and developers.

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