A tool to identify the RGB of a selected color

[CKinTX]

Download AutoHotKey. This comes with a Windows Spy script that dynamically shows the RGB colour under the pointer.

Or work on your own with:

Limited but easy to enhance.

Acorn

Thanx, Acorn, I'll check it out.

[gwpriester]

If you are sampling a solid color, that's one thing . But the problem sampling a photo is a color is made of of hundreds or thousands of various colored pixels. So your value will depend on which specific pixel you are hovering over. Unless the sampling method is capable of averaging an area and even that is going to change.

A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose is a...

[Acorn]

So, in a crude way, the new Palette from Photo averages out and creates a primary colour.

Acorn

[handrawn]

that would be pure hue

[Acorn]

Hue boy. Hue shouldn't hsv.

Acorn

[handrawn]

I see.. but the point was primary colour is, well rather limited