Very interesting... every color I stop on looks good in this, because of the transparency in the design.
Piknik - my full screen color picker
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#12It's nice. I like that it's a full screen perspective as opposed to the usual 10x10 box which makes it truly impossible to show how a color may look on a larger scale.
In reply to the numerous comments regarding the lack of features; I think that's a feature in itself. If I'm looking for a boat full of features I'll open up an image manipulation program.
Open up a browser, throw the mouse pointer around until I see something I like, click, done. Simple. I like it.
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#13Cool. I found myself wanting to know the hex values of the bottom box (on and off state) as well - an instant palette.
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#14This doesn't work on the iPad :(
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#15Good stuff.
For v2 please consider adding non-uniform H scale. With some hues the difference in one point is much more noticeable than in others (e.g. 140-160 range vs greens or violets).
Also, could really use more precise navigation. E.g. if I am at the right hue and want to adjust saturation, I would ideally do something that wouldn't change hue when I wiggle my mouse. Perhaps account for a Ctrl key being held down, or make left click fix the hue first, and the saturation next... ?
Good stuff nonetheless. The logo is pretty awful though :)
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#16You are aware of that other similar sounding website (Picnik), right? You know, the immensely popular online photo editor that was acquired by Google several months ago? http://picnik.com As far as your actual tool: There are many color pickers available online that have many more useful features than you do. I'm not trying to be snarky and I hope you posted here for feedback. Why would I use your product? What's the…
Not everything worth looking at is a marketable product.
Re: Piknik - my full screen color picker
#17You are aware of that other similar sounding website (Picnik), right? You know, the immensely popular online photo editor that was acquired by Google several months ago? http://picnik.com As far as your actual tool: There are many color pickers available online that have many more useful features than you do. I'm not trying to be snarky and I hope you posted here for feedback. Why would I use your product? What's the…
"Why would I use your product? What's the use case? What value does it provide that the other dozen or so top color pickers DON'T offer?"
Maybe it's just a cool hack. Not everything has to be a fancy boxed up product with the only hope of being sold to Google. Sometimes people just like to build cool things.
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#18Interesting, but there are some issues: I couldn't get to black or white..? Also, you are mistaking luminosity for brightness: luminosity is a device factor, brightness is a color factor.
HSL (Hue Saturation Luminosity) - bring your mouse all the way down to bring saturation to 0% or close and then scroll down to bring luminosity down to black or up to white.
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#19Great, I'd just like to have a white, black and 50% grey reference within a page - maybe Piknik letters up there?
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#20Interesting, but there are some issues: I couldn't get to black or white..? Also, you are mistaking luminosity for brightness: luminosity is a device factor, brightness is a color factor.
HSL (Hue Saturation Luminosity) - bring your mouse all the way down to bring saturation to 0% or close and then scroll down to bring luminosity down to black or up to white.
Ummm, sorry but that's not correct; it is Hue, Saturation and Lightness. You are confusing luminosity with lightness:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSL_and_HSV http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminosity