Hex color picker for the standard Mac OS X color panel
The built-in color picker in Mac OS X doesn’t feature hex values. Thanks to a guy named Jesper over at Waffle software it is as easy to fix, as it is odd. All you have to do is to download and install Hex Color Picker from wafflesoftware.net/hexpicker.
As a web developer I work with hex values a lot. It has been bugging me for some time now that the built in color picker in Mac OS X doesn’t feature setting and getting hex values. I have been taking long, long roads, through screenshots and Photoshop, around the problem. Today I decided to do the right thing and Google it.
Not surprisingly at all, someone, Jesper at Waffle Software, had already solved it and published a neat and simple fix. Download the default Mac OS X color panel extension Hex Color Picker over at Waffles web page – http://wafflesoftware.net/hexpicker/. And why don’t you give them a donation if this free software proves useful.
I can’t stop wondering why Apple decided to put time on creating a Crayon color picker instead of something useful as a hex color picker.
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Hi
I downloaded the the app. but I can’t figure out how to apply it to the mac color picker. It keeps wanting to open it Dreamweaver. Thanks.
Barry
You need to move the file to:
[your home folder] -> Library -> ColorPickers
(if the ColorPickers folder doesn’t exist, create it)
How to create it as an application so that it’s always open and available as needed.
http://theappleblog.com/2009/08/04/os-x-tips-taking-charge-of-the-color-picker/
Forgot one detail. Go to the bottom of this link’s page for instructions on how to make the palette a stand alone application.
http://theappleblog.com/2009/08/04/os-x-tips-taking-charge-of-the-color-picker/
Jan .. I installed it there, but can’t get it to come up. I think some detail is missing from the instructions. Does it need to be saved as an app format or something?
I hope that it can stay open no matter which application I have open (Firefox, Acrobat, etc. ….). Can it just stay open on the desktop sampling any colors on screen?
Related to this problem, I read “File -> Save As, and set the File Format pop-up to Application” … I don’t know how to do that. I am never given the File>Save As option.
Don’t save it within a folder once put in the ColorPickers folder. It must stand alone. Here’s a link on how to find and save other color pickers + how to create it as an application so that it’s always open and available as needed.
http://theappleblog.com/2009/08/04/os-x-tips-taking-charge-of-the-color-picker/