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CSS Scrollbar Color Designer
$4.95 - Renegade Minds

Make your web site shine with spectacular CSS scrollbar color themes. The Renegade CSS Scrollbar Color Designer is point and click easy with color pickers, color mixing sliders, and color eye-droppers that can pick any color from anywhere on your screen. Real time previews let you mix colors fast.

A large real time preview and real size preview let you preview your color schemes as you change them. When you're happy, you can generate your CSS in 1 click. Another base preview lets you preview CSS scrollbar base colors when you generate your CSS.

Convenient presets let you keep your various color schemes available to change in a single click. Give them names for easy reference.

Whether you like HEX, RGB or named colors, you get to choose how the Renegade CSS Scrollbar Color Designer shows them. Use pure HEX colors, pure RGB color values, or use named colors with HEX or RGB for unnamed colors. You get your colors how you like them.

When you are happy with your colors, save your CSS scrollbar colors to a CSS file or just copy and paste the code into your web site files.

And if you already have nice scrollbar colors, you can import them from CSS, HTML, HTM, ASP, PHP, CFM, ASP.NET, Perl or any other web text file for instant display.

Hover your mouse over the preview to reveal the name of the element and the color in HEX.

All scrollbar color items are fully supported:

scrollbar-base-color
scrollbar-face-color
scrollbar-highlight-color
scrollbar-3dlight-color
scrollbar-shadow-color
scrollbar-darkshadow-color
scrollbar-track-color
scrollbar-arrow-color

You can even mix the base color with override colors for super-fast color themes in only a few clicks. Your CSS code then looks like this:

scrollbar-base-color: White;
scrollbar-face-color: Olive;
scrollbar-highlight-color: ;
scrollbar-3dlight-color: ;
scrollbar-shadow-color: ;
scrollbar-darkshadow-color: #004000;
scrollbar-track-color: ;
scrollbar-arrow-color: ;

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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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ColorCache
$34.99 - Technology Lighthouse

This compact box of color tools is the designers equivalent of the Swiss Army Penknife. It packs in a color picker, color scheme generator, web preview tools and much more. Designed to fit seamlessly with the way you work, it sits quietly in the system tray ready to be summoned with a simple mouse click or key press. Compatible with most graphics programs, it is a popular choice for professionals and home users alike.

The color picker will harvest colors from anywhere on your computer screen, including web pages, photographs and images. It can be invoked with a single key press. It's only on-screen presence is a small magnifier around your cursor. Selected colors will be automatically saved to a palette, and/or copied to the clipboard in a format of your choosing ready to be pasted into your favorite applications.

The palette builder allows you to generate beautiful color schemes at the click of a button. Simply choose a base color and let the built-in color formulas instantly produce a selection of color schemes. Choose from harmonies, complements, analogous colors and more. Adjust the base color using the sliders or color wheel and watch your color scheme change before your eyes, from vibrant colors to subtle pastel shades.

ColorCache comes with a wide range of built-in color formulas. If you can't find what you want you can easily edit existing formulas or define your own using the powerful formula editor. You can even reverse engineer formulas from an existing color scheme. If you see a web color scheme that you like let ColorCache reproduce it for you in a variety of different hues and shades.

Color schemes can be organized into palette collections and saved in numerous formats. ColorCache is compatible with most popular graphics programs including Photoshop, Paintshop Pro and Freehand. You can also preview and distribute your favorite color schemes at the click of a button - choose from a selection of built in layouts or use your own web pages.

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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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