GD Color Converter

Designing visual elements for computer applications, games, or web pages isn’t as easy as it seems, not even to pick, or match colors, especially since there are millions of choices. However, this minor issue can easily be solved with applications like GD Color Converter, letting you pick a pixel from the screen, analyze its color, and display the code.

With the application installed in a jiffy, you can launch it to see what it’s all about. A compact main window shows up, with various code components, and values to let you know the exact tone and name of the color you pick. Accommodation is a walk in the park, and there are also balloon tooltips when hovering the mouse over specific elements, so you don’t get stuck along the way.

The name isn’t able just to convert colors, as the name suggests, but comes with a wide range of configuration tools so you can specify the exact tone. For starters, you can use a color name drop-down menu to pick from several common colors in order to reveal corresponding code. Values are shown in hexadecimal format, decimal, as well as RGB values, as well as a custom, eye wizard format.

Values get generated in real time, so you don’t have to wait or press any other button. These can also be manually modified for random, new tones. What’s more, the application can skip you the effort of manually copying values, and you can have either HEX or DEC codes sent to the clipboard at the press of a button.

As mentioned above, colors can be defined through the different palettes or lists to reveal code. There’s a dropper tool you can drag around the desktop, but be sure to keep the left mouse button pressed while dragging, with the color being automatically grabbed on release, and a real time updating preview to see if you point where intended.

To sum it up, color pickers help designers sync and match different colors in order to obtain a neat, proper result. GD Color Converter is a powerful tool with which picking a color is as easy as pointing towards it, or selecting from predefined lists or palettes. Codes provided are a bit shallow, but the overall design and experience make it worth a try in the end.