AdesClrPicker - small useful color picker
Filed in: Downloads, Reviews — May 17th, 2007
Developers and designers often need to pick up a color on their screen, that is where AdesClrPicker becomes useful.
AdesClrPicker is a small, easy to use, yet powerful color picker. It is system wide color picker, which means you can pick up any color that you see on the screen. It can output the colors in HTML, RGB, C++, VB and Delphi color codes.
After activate AdesClrPicker (support keyboard shortcut), the mouse cursor will become a color picker with a floating color box following it closely. The color box will zoom the current are of the color picker and shows the current color code and last captured color.
Admit it, color codes are hard to be memorized. So, AdesClrPicker will remember the last 10 colors picked by you. It is a simple but handy feature so that you do not need to pick several different colors over and over again.
Want to save your favorite colors? No problem.
Image: AdesClrPicker Color Library
AdesClrPicker has a Color Library which save your colors for later references. Or, you can set the colors you want in the Color Library.
Download AdesClrPicker
To try out AdesClrPicker, you can download the free demo version of AdesClrPicker which output RGB color code. The download size is only 1.04 MB. A full feature AdesClrPicker cost $19.90 USD.
My two cents
I am not a designer nor a real developer, but I still need a color picker. I use color picker to select nice colors from other website to be used on my sites, or pick up theme colors to create a matching ad layout.
AdesClrPicker got the features needed as a color picker and that’s it. Its small program size means fast loading speed. Recommended!
By the way, AdesClrPicker is not working perfectly on Windows Vista yet. Hopefully Ades will update it soon. Oh, did I tell you that AdesClrPicker is a product of Ades, the PR7 blogger? 
Update: Ades is offering promotional price for AdesClrPicker at $9.90 USD
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May 17th, 2007 at 8:49 am
I had a look and I think it is useful but a bit expensive (USD19).
May 17th, 2007 at 9:41 am
There are many free alternitives to this. I honestly don’t see why you’d mention this… $19 seems a bit pricey for all it does.
May 17th, 2007 at 9:45 am
u said
“the mouse arror will become a color picker with a floating color box following it closely.”
i think u meant ‘mouse cursor’
im gonna have to agree with Jake. USD19 is a little too pricey.
May 17th, 2007 at 9:54 am
Yeah it’s a cool tool but a little expensive.
There is a several firefox plugins related to color. I like the FireFox developer addon as it shows all existing colors in it’s hex format on a particular page.
Also there is colorzilla (http://www.iosart.com/firefox/colorzilla/).
For choosing a particular color I usually use my text editor - UltraEdit.
May 17th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
I use nattyware.. free , easy and light..
May 17th, 2007 at 11:06 pm
Another tool is color cop.
I had written a post earlier about it here.
http://webtools-desinet1.blogspot.com/2007/04/how-to-determine-rgb-hex-color-code-of.html
May 18th, 2007 at 8:03 pm
I enjoyed your 2 cents.
In my review I mentioned a tool called the StevesMacOSXColorPicker. It is free but no competition for Adesclrpicker!!
May 19th, 2007 at 3:07 am
I will look into pricing for the next release. It will have even more useful features (vista compatible of course) and I will reduce the price too. So stay tuned.
May 19th, 2007 at 12:59 pm
Yeap, colorzilla for me too, it’s an add-on for firefox and very very useful.
May 19th, 2007 at 1:36 pm
Thanks Ades. It’s not everyday we have the developer himself replying to comments made outside of his own blog
May 20th, 2007 at 4:17 am
Sure, it’s my responsibility to listen to my (potential) customers and improve the product according to their requirements, be it in price sense or more features.
May 21st, 2007 at 7:56 pm
The price is right for this kind of tools. It easy to use and comes with small footprint (i.e kilobytes of space used).
May 22nd, 2007 at 11:04 am
Same here too, I am not a designer nor a real developer. W3C has colour scheme that I used sometime for undesigner or undeveloper works.
BTW, the price sense is too steep for me!
May 23rd, 2007 at 3:52 am
I am running a promotional price of $9.90 now. That should be good news to many of you, i hope