Color Pickers

Take the guess work out of colors with these color picking apps. Are you a photographer? Then achieve the perfect skin tones in your photos. Color-blind? Then identify colors by their name quickly and easily.

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Key Points

  • Two color picking apps which help users work with colors easily on the desktop.
  • The Skin Tone Checker app helps photographers to achieve the perfect skin tones in their photos.
  • The Color Identifier app helps color-blind users identify colors by name such as 'pink' or 'purple'.
  • App were built using Qt and Python, and support all desktop operating systems.

Skin Tone Checker

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Achieve those perfect skin tones in your photos using this skin tone based color picker.

Image of the UI

Features

  • Pick colors on screen and visually compare them to the perfect skin tone color range.
  • Watch a specific area while you make color adjustments in external apps.
  • Identify problems and see hints to improve the skin tone - e.g. when the saturation is too high.
  • Fix the window above others to view the color changes whilst editing in external apps like Photoshop or Lightroom.
  • Useful for photographers and videographers, especially those who are color-blind.

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Color Identifier

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Identify colors by name like 'pink' or 'purple' using this color picker identifier.

Image of the UI

Features

  • Pick colors anywhere on screen and the closest matching color name will be displayed.
  • Includes a slow-mo mode for pixel accurate picking.
  • Use the default color names or create your own. The app also ships with additional name lists such as CSS, xkcd, and even Crayola color names.
  • Useful for color-blind users who struggle to differentiate between subtle color differences.

Continue article: How do they work?