Color Picker Pro

Whether you are a web designer or someone who often needs to select colors from the desktop, you may benefit from a tool like Color Picker Pro. It allows you to capture color data from a pixel or range of pixels on your screen and view it in various formats.

Note that if you choose to install the application, instead of running it in portable mode, it may include some third-party offers.

The program enables you to capture the color code of a particular pixel on your screen and offers a zoomed preview window that makes it easy to view individual ones.

You can also have the application calculate an average color value for a particular area, that can be a square 3, 5, or 7 pixels wide.

Color Picker Pro can continuously capture color information from the pixel highlighted by the mouse pointer, but also offers a crosshair that you can drag to a particular location. This can be useful if you need to perform certain operations with the selected color, without it constantly changing.

The application can display color information in multiple formats, including: Numerical, RGB, HSL, HSB, CMY, CMYK, CIE Luv, CIE Lab, LCH, CIE XYZ, YIQ, YCC, YUV, YES, Hexadecimal, HTML, HTML color names, Visual Basic and C++.

The program can automatically insert spaces and component names, in order to improve readability, and you can easily copy color data to the clipboard.

Color Picker Pro can adjust certain values, in order to obtain variations of the captured data. For example, you can have it automatically alter contrast, brightness or saturation, as well as display complementary, desaturated, web-safe, greyscale or inverted versions of the selected color.

Overall, Color Picker Pro is a useful program if you need a simple tool to help you view color information, in multiple formats, for specific pixels or areas on your desktop.