Corante Color Picker : Eye dropper for any color on the screen, featuring a magnification tool, various color codes, and support for exporting the color palette to Adobe or GIMP file format
Corante Color Picker lets you find out the color codes of any color from the screen, in order to use it in your personal projects. This kind of software comes in handy to web and graphic designers. It offers support for hex HTML, C++ and Java, HSB, RGB, RGB [0-1], and decimal color codes.
No setup required, besides .NET Framework
As long as you have .NET Framework installed, you don't have to set up anything else. You can save Corante Color Picker anywhere on the disk or on a removable storage unit to directly run it on any PC with minimum effort. It doesn't modify Windows registry settings.As far as the interface is concerned, the tool adopts a regular window that contains the color spectrum and supplies you with a color picker, which you can move anywhere on the screen to preview colors in a magnified region and select any color by pressing the Space bar.
Capture colors, view color codes, and export the color palette
It's possible to capture multiple colors and add them to the color palette (up to 12 entries), remove any entry, adjust the color, as well as find out its hue, saturation, brightness, red, green and blue channels, along with the hex HTML, C++ and Java, HSB, RGB, RGB [0-1], and decimal color codes.Any code can be copied to the Clipboard with one click. Furthermore, you can save the color palette to a plain text document and open it later, export it to Adobe or GIMP color palette format (.aco or .gpl), or clear the color list to restart the session from scratch.
Evaluation and conclusion
We haven't encountered any unpleasant in our tests as far as stability is concerned, since the utility didn't freeze, crash or prompt error messages. Unsurprisingly, it had minimal impact on computer performance, running on low CPU and RAM.To wrap it up, Corante Color Picker offers a simple solution for capturing colors, finding out various color codes and exporting the color palette for Adobe or GIMP. It can be seamlessly handled by all types of users.
Corante Color Picker runs on
Windows 10/11
and is available under the
Freeware
license
— the installer is 53 KB.
We’ve catalogued it under
Graphics Editing and Painting.
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