Hex color picker for mac copies well to Photoshop
Yea, I know it’s been a long time. Busy is a great state for a little shop like ours. Onward.
I like the little Digital Color Meter that comes with the Mac (Applications>Utilities), but it falls short when trying to copy colors from the screen and paste them into Photoshop’s color picker. Digital Color Meter’s copy function (Shift+Command+C) copies the hex value of the underlying pixel, complete with quotes and the pound sign. Photoshop’s color picker wants just the 6 character hex number, no frills. In fact, it will reject the paste command altogether if there are more than 6 characters.
The IconFactory have a sweet little silver bullet in xScope that has cured this little woe, and laid rest to a few others I didn’t even know I had. Not only will xScope copy the hex characters without quotes and with or without the pound, but as RGB values, RGB percentages, HSB, as well as NSColor (whatever that is).
But wait, there’s more. That’s just one of the 7 tricks xScope does. There’s on screen dimensions, rulers, screen resolution overlays, guides, frames, and a crosshair tool. Check out the xScope page at the IconFactory site for the whole deal. xScope is $26.95, and of course there’s a demo version. It’s easy on the eyes, and worth the cheddah for something I’ll use daily.
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