Color Pickers and Color Tools for Windows

This tutorial for Color Scheme Designer will show how to use the free application to produce color schemes to use in your projects.

Featured Download - Free color palette swatch collections for BBEdit, Fireworks, The GIMP, HomeSite, Illustrator, ImageReady, Paint Shop Pro, Painter, and Photoshop.

This online tool from Adobe labs lets you "explore, create, and share color schemes for your Web pages, design projects, and other creative work."

Select colors from a library of over 500 colors, convert color values, copy color codes, save favorite colors, and more. $9.95 US.

Break color images down into the component parts to learn more about color systems. $10 US

Modify and explore various color combinations with a click of a button. $10 US.

Easily pick colors for web design or other graphics work. Color Browser copies the color string to the clipboard for easy pasting into your HTML editor.

Converts RGB decimal to RGB hexadecimal triplets. Other features include a built in color picker, magnifier, color preview, auto copy to clipboard, and an eyedropper to choose colors anywhere on the screen. Only 13KB. Freeware.

Freeware. This color picker includes a magnifier for making precise color selections. Allows you to copy up to 8 color samples and displays color values in several formats (Hex, RGB, etc.).

Help you create color schemes that work by diusplaying 16 harmonious colors and allowing you to choose choose, modify, and save color schemes. Shareware - $25 US to register. 15-day trial available.

Allows you to create harmonious color schemes and preview them on real-world examples. The preview is real-time: when adjusting the color scheme, you see the changes immediately.

ColorBlender is a free online tool for color matching and palette design.

"ColorImpact is a professional tool for creating harmonious color schemes... ColorImpact is aimed at professional multimedia and web designers, but is simple to use even for beginners... includes many features for quick access from Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, FrontPage etc. Several color formulas are built-in including triads, complements and analogous colors." Shareware - US$45.

Free Windows color picker features: interactively change RGB and HSV values, eyedropper, screen magnifier, color display in different formats.

"Colorspeak is an experiment to explore how we perceive and associate the colors of the so-called safe palette with words, sounds, people, emotions, and events in our own experience." Click on any color in the Web safe color palette and you can submit your comments about that color and read what others have submitted about a color.

Pick one or several colors anywhere on your screen with a single mouse click. Features 2 capture modes, interactive zoom tool that magnifies portions of the screen, 20+ color formats, 10+ color spaces, and 15+ color variations (Inversion, Complement, Desaturation, etc.)." Shareware - US$20

This small freeware utility will display the RGB and Hex values of any pixel on the screen.

"Advanced HTML-colorpicker... lets you configure your own colors (RGB input) and paste the results (HTML code) in your web document. Previews fore, back and links-colors. Option to load image files." Freeware.

Creates 256 (or smaller) color palettes from True Color source images using a blend of algorithms to achieve high quality palettes. Evaluation version available. Approximately $69US.

Fast, small, free color picker for Windows. "Simply point to a colour and it will tell you the hex, RGB, HTML, CMYK and HSV values of that colour."

Tools to help you see your designs as colorblind individuals would see them. There's a Java version, a Photoshop plug-in (Windows only), and an online version.

Clicking on a color in the on-screen palette displays a swatch with the color codes and name, clicking on additional colors will give you a side by side comparison of up to 8 colors.