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I had become so used to just grabbing color values from any old pixel on the screen..., but on Windows the best way I came up with was to take a screenshot, wai
by booleandilemma 8y ago
I had become so used to just grabbing color values from any old pixel on the screen..., but on Windows the best way I came up with was to take a screenshot, wait for Photoshop to open, then get the color value through the PS eyedropper tool. That took probably 30 seconds to get a single color, since Adobe software is somehow still dog slow on brand new hardware.
You can do the same thing in MS Paint and save yourself 15 seconds.
- Scrantonicity 8y agoand you can leave it running in the background all day long
- happyweasel 8y agoNope, you cannot colorpick with MS Paint from the whole visible screen (i.e. all windows and the desktop)
- booleandilemma 8y agoThe workflow is: 1) Take a screenshot. 2) Paste it into Paint. 3) Use the eye dropper to select the pixel that has the color you want. This is the equivalent of editing a file with Notepad++ instead of opening it in Visual Studio.
- kijin 8y agoIf you can screenshot it, you can paste it into MS Paint. No difference from Photoshop or any other image editing program. The only problem I have with MS Paint is that it doesn't give me the hex value of the color I picked, only the individual RGB values.