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I created the HSLColor class for wrapping the RGB-HSL, and with the help of Wikipedia, it was just a simple matter of typing in the formula. The Color class already implements a GetHue, Saturation and Lightness ( Brightness), but unfortunately does not implement the Set method, so I needed a conversion from a RGB color to an HSL color.Īfter a bit of online searching, I came across this article in Wikipedia which explains the HSL color space and most conveniently also includes the equations for converting between RGB - HSL and vice versa. The color in the color wheel is represented by its hue and saturation value, where hue is the angle (0-360) with red being 0°, green 120° and blue 240°, and where the saturation is the distance from the center, where 0 (center) is white and 1 (on the circumference) is the fully saturated color. Color control should appear as a combobox with the color picker in the dropdown container.Opacity slider to adjust the opacity of the color.Color wheel for selecting any arbitrary color.Color picker (eye dropper) which lets you pick a color from anywhere on the screen.Color table with some predefined colors.After looking at a couple of different color pickers, I decided to go ahead and implement my own version which would meet these few requirements: I needed a color picker for a project I was working on, and I wanted something different from the standard ColorDialog. remembers the current state so when you reopen the color picker you can carry on where you left off.There are already several articles here on CodeProject describing different types of color pickers, and here is yet another example. available as an icon on your Chrome toolbar to create a color scale from 3 to 25 colors for use in bar charts, maps, etc. find the color code of a color on a web page with the eyedropper to create a four color personalized 4-color palette You can also type or paste a Hex code into the text fields to get a particular color. Use the color blender to blend two colors using RGB channel-wise blend functions. Select from different color modes to get your favorite colors. ![]() This tool will produce a pleasing color scale from the start and end colors you select. If you are creating any type of chart or map that relies on colors to visually distinguish elements (or data values) in your chart or map you'll find this very hard to do manually and the results will likely be not ideal - often leaving the viewer to guess the intent of the color. ![]() Use the color scale to create a set of visually pleasing colors that are evenly spaced. On hi-dpi (high resolution) screens the eyedropper snapshot may appear blurry. ![]() You can see the history on the Color Picker's Eyedropper tab. The Color Picker tracks a history of the colors you've selected with the eyedropper. Also note that some pages (e.g., chrome://, file://, urls) have security that prevent eyedropper from working. Make sure you scroll to the area of the page that you want to select colors from before starting the eyedropper. Note that colors are picked from a snapshot of the viewable area of the page. You can also use the Eyedropper button on the Eyedropper tab of the extension's popup. Use the Eyedropper by right-clicking on the page and selecting "Pick a color on the page". The color picker will also display the colors to different formats (i.e., HEX, RGB, HSV, HSL, CMYK). ![]() The color selections are shown together with their Hex code values in the boxes below the palette. Use the color picker by clicking and dragging the markers around the palette. Build a personalized color palette, select colors from webpages with the eyedropper, create color scales, and blend colorsĬreate your own personalized 4- color palette that you can use for your web pages, pick colors from a web page with the eyedropper, create color scales for chart, and map visualizations, experiment by blending colors.
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