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By: Ken

Ken — Fri, 30 May 2008 18:15:41 +0000

Nice…I didn’t even realize that little gem-of-an-app was in there!

By: Uwe

Uwe — Fri, 30 May 2008 18:07:31 +0000

I used the “DigitalColor Meter”, included with Mac OS X in /Applications/Utilities

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 05 May 2008 22:42:16 +0000

Thanks for the tip Moritz…I’ll give that a try. The “universal lock” would be very helpful, as xScope must have focus to lock the magnified area – not particularly useful if I’m interested in a focus-based color.

By: Moritz Uhlig

Moritz Uhlig — Mon, 05 May 2008 22:34:39 +0000

If you have the Apple Developer Tools installed you can also use Pixie.app that magnifies the area below the mouse. You can even lock the area using ctrl+alt+cmd+L (“Universal lock”, i.e. even if Pixie is not active) and then click pixel by pixel to get the RGB and HSB values or just drag the color into an application that supports it (sadly mostly non-Java apps).
xScope has a somewhat nicer UI though – dependending on which colors dominate in the selected area in Pixie the values are hardly readable.

By: Ken

Ken — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 20:34:56 +0000

I’m embarrassed to say I didn’t know that!

There is one minor wrinkle, though, with using the OS X color picker to grab a color. Many times the color in question is focus dependent, and focusing the app in question causes the color picker to no longer be active. xScope is focus independent, so no matter where your mouse is or what has focus, it’ll show you the color.

By: Jesse Wilson

Jesse Wilson — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:51:40 +0000

The Color picker in OS X lets you grab colors directly, but of course this doesn’t include magnification…