Color4design and Getcolor! - Color Picker Software for Windows

Color Wheel Expert
$24.95 - Abitom Software

Based on the color wheel and color harmony theory, Color Wheel Expert enables users to select a color, and then have 12 harmonious colors displayed in a circle.

With Color Wheel Expert, it's easy to find analogous colors, triads, and complements and split-complements colors. With the flexible color palette and color wheel, users can easily create harmonious color schemes. After users find a color scheme they like, they can save their scheme for future use.

With Color Wheel Expert, creating color palettes is a breeze. You can use of the screen color picker, the Windows color dialog, or you can simply input your own decimal or hexadecimal values and use sliders to modify color values. Color Wheel Expert makes it easy to select colors from a 216-color web safe palette, and slider adjustments help users fine-tune the color selection, as well as pick colors from anywhere on the screen and make colors web safe.

Color Wheel Expert enables users to convert color values with RGB, HSL, CMY, CMYK and YCbCr using sliders. The RGB Sliders can be locked so they move synchronously to quickly generate a range of tints or shades of the working color. The program also allows users to easily copy color code to the clipboard in RGB, HTML, Delphi, C++, VB and Java format.

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Resizer XT
$49 - Extended Resizer & SplitBar

Resizer XT is an ActiveX control that adds intelligent form resizing to your applications without any code. Resizer XT provides simple proportional resizing just by adding it to your form. Unlike other resizing controls, Resizer XT additionally provides intelligent Resizing. You can individually adjust the size, position and font of each control on your form. Resizer XT is the easiest solution to build professional user interfaces with smart rule based resizing. Supports SSTab control.

Features:
-Requires absolutely no code: Simply place the Resizer Control anywhere on your form.
-works in 2 modes: simple proportional mode, and advanced smart mode
-Each control on the form can be precisely moved and resized independently
-Moving and resizing is done in a smart way. Resizer XT does not only use basic proportional resizing scheme. It can also position and resize controls by memorizing the initial look of your form. Then, resizing or moving is made with respect to anchoring rules you set
-Support Microsoft's SSTab control
-Supports MDI forms (new)
-Very easy to to learn in less than 1 minutes
-Provides minimum / maximum form size and optional font scaling
-Implemented in no time with WYSIWYG concept
-You retain full control over the process: over 10 Properties to set its look and behavior and 2 events raised before and after the resizing process for a complete programmatic control
-can manage controls created in run-time
-No complicated design-time constructors or resource consuming wizards and property pages
-Professionally authored, Context sensitive Help, including a quick starting guide and 3 VB6 sample projects
-can be easily added or removed from your project at any stage by simply adding or removing Resizer XT from your form
-Memory efficient and fast
-the ocx is very small, only 80k
-Royalty free distribution: you are free to distribute any number of programs you develop using a registered Resizer XT activeX

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Absolute Color Picker
$0 - Eltima Soft

Absolute Color Picker is a free handy application that lets you select colors by means of various color models and convert them into HTML-based hexadecimal representation. Being a great compact color designer it features a free color picker, color scheme generator, color history builder, color scheme management system, screen color grabber and much more. Absolute Color Picker is fully compatible with most graphics packages and is the best compact choice for professional designers, freelancers and home users. Absolute Color Picker is an enhanced and improved color selection dialog which can be used by designers for selecting any true colors using different color models. Apart of conventional, built-in color picker dialog features, Absolute Color Picker offers a number of unique extensions, such as extended color models (HSB Brightness, HSB Radial, HSB Hue, RGB 3D Sphere, HSB Hue2, HSB Pens, HSB Hexagons and HSB Palettes). Unique color selection dialog models provide versatile color scheme and algorithms for selecting necessary color hue, brightness and transparency values. Color constituents values are represented in hexadecimal format for both RGB and HSB systems. Ready made color presets, Web Safe colors, Windows/Mac, System and other color palettes save a grate amount of time for selecting an appropriate color. Color history list displays up to 12 colors previously selected by user. Absolute Color Picker provides facilities to adjust color by entering desired color constituents values in appropriate boxes or modify values by moving slider. The application features the eye-dropper - the most convenient tool for selecting color from anywhere on your screen. Absolute Color Picker has simple and intuitive interface allowing any level users to master it at zero-time and with a great excitement.

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SI ColorPicker
$0 - Pingram Software

Pick pixel colors as HTML, HEX or RGB values.

Are you designing a Web page, and need to match borders or background color against a picture? Sure you can open that picture in a graphic editor, pick a color and convert it to the format accepted by HTML standard. But why bother? Let SI ColorPicker do it for you in just one motion! Drag the eyedropper tool onto a picture - or other Web page, if that matters, - and SI ColorPicker will display the exact value of that pixel in HTML format. It takes just another click to place that string to a Windows clipboard, ready to be pasted into your Web page.

Are you a software developer programming an application that has to look in line with other products? Pick any part of any window on your desktop, and you'll see if that color is a WinAPI system constant beginning with COLOR_, or some arbitrary color chosen by the developer of that software. In any case, you're just one mouse click away from pasting a necessary color value from Windows clipboard!

Get RGB color values in decimal or HEX formats, as system color constants or as HTML values with a single free tool. You can configure SI ColorPicker to sit silently in the system tray near the clock when it is closed or minimized, ready to be accessed with a single click. If you need SI ColorPicker to appear on top of other windows, there?s that option, too! Should you need to run it fast, there's a Windows shortcut to launch it quick: press Win+R and type "sicolor", followed by ENTER.

SI ColorPicker is small, light and free. No software or Web developer or designer should live without a color picker!

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Color Style Studio (paint color schemes)
$69.95 - XVEL Software

If you're a professional involved with painting, decorating or color design, you need Color Style Studio!

Color Style Studio enables you to select color schemes using photos of real objects such as house interior or exterior and more! Choose colors from California Paints, PPG, Colortrend, NCS, RAL, Sikkens, Symphony and 80 other available sets (more then 45000 various colors).

Select a photo of your client?s house and let your clients choose their preferred paint colors. Then sit back and watch their amazement while you show them their house instantly repainted in their chosen color scheme!
Have your clients choose other colors and watch as you "repaint" the house over and over again, quickly and easily. And moreover, if you do not have time to make client's house shots, just pick similar object from Color Style Studio's
big collection of ready interior and exterior photos.

Increase your revenue and gain an advantage over your competition providing unique visual color reception service!

Attract more clients with your ability to restore forgotten tints. Color Style Studio is so powerful it can search for every possible custom color within real color collections.

Flaunt your creativity using a special mode that shows random compositions of tints applied to an object, one at a time. While in this mode, you're able to find rich and original color solutions that others can't.

Use the built-in calculator and stop wasting your time manually calculating the costs of paint and materials.

Color Style Studio facilitates the tedious process of matching and selecting color by enabling you to apply different color combinations to the object in your photo. No more wondering which composition is the "best house color scheme". You'll close more sales when you show your customers how their house will look before you open the first paint can.

Color Style Studio is like an interesting and exciting game that focuses on color rather than color management.

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AKVIS Coloriage
$97 - AKVIS LLC

AKVIS presents the cutting edge technology of automatic photo colorization.

AKVIS Coloriage is as easy to use as a coloring book. No layers manipulation, no complicated techniques. To colorize a black and white photo it suffices to indicate the desired colors by the stroke of the brush; the program does the rest of the work - recognizes the object's border and tailors the new color to the grayscale tones of the initial picture.

You can colorize old black and white photos from your family archive, replace colors in your color photos or achieve artistic efffects by making partial colorization or selective desaturation.

Make a present for your grandmother by adding color to her school photo, replace the colors of your car to see how it would look in scarlet, see how you will look if you dye your hair red.

AKVIS Coloriage creates natural-looking colorization in a quick and entertaining manner. It works equally well for coloring of portraits, landscapes, fashion, and still life. The skin, sky, verdure, and tree color patterns help users to select realistic colors for their picture.

Use AKVIS Coloriage for the following purposes:
-add color to black and white photos;
-add color to hand sketch drawings (for example, manga drawings and comics);
-replace colors on a color photo;
-try different color schemes for interior and exterior design;
-selective desaturation and selective colorization of areas on a color photo.

Apply your creativity and you will find a wide variety of other usages for the software.

The program is available in two versions - as an independent program (standalone) and as a plug-in to a photo editor. The plug-in version is compatible with Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Paint Shop Pro, Photo Paint, PhotoImpact and other popular editors.

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