Piknik - my full screen color picker • Hacker News Board

Re: Piknik - my full screen color picker

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Oct 22, 2010, 7:35 PM UTC

mk wrote: post #17

bgraves wrote: post #3

You 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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Re: Piknik - my full screen color picker

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Post by DeusExMachina » Fri, Oct 22, 2010, 8:21 PM UTC

What are those three flash movies at the bottom of the page for? Just to highlight the values on mouse over?

Re: Piknik - my full screen color picker

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Post by nathos » Fri, Oct 22, 2010, 8:49 PM UTC

DeusExMachina wrote: post #32

What are those three flash movies at the bottom of the page for? Just to highlight the values on mouse over?

for copying the values to the clipboard

Re: Piknik - my full screen color picker

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Post by DanielStraight » Fri, Oct 22, 2010, 8:53 PM UTC

araneae wrote: post #26

Only one major problem I see; you can't "hold" any colors that are under the hex or rgb values, because if you click there it copies the values instead. But of course that's a trade off, because that's a cool feature to have.

Indeed.

The box should jump to the top if you hover over it before locking a color.

Re: Piknik - my full screen color picker

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Oct 22, 2010, 8:59 PM UTC

DeusExMachina wrote: post #32

What are those three flash movies at the bottom of the page for? Just to highlight the values on mouse over?

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Re: Piknik - my full screen color picker

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Post by fshaun » Fri, Oct 22, 2010, 9:10 PM UTC

Easily "exporting" the last interesting colors via clicking is nice. A stack of boxes showing the last N chosen colors would help eyeball themes.

Re: Piknik - my full screen color picker

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Post by LordLandon » Fri, Oct 22, 2010, 11:48 PM UTC

sfphotoarts wrote: post #14

This doesn't work on the iPad :(

Works on my droid 2, except I can only tap different places, as dragging causes the browser to scroll

Re: Piknik - my full screen color picker

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Post by DrStalker » Sat, Oct 23, 2010, 12:29 AM UTC

I like the way the title is always in a nice readable contrast and the info box down the botom always matches the selected colour - lots of fun.

Re: Piknik - my full screen color picker

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Post by smackfu » Sat, Oct 23, 2010, 1:14 AM UTC

bgraves wrote: post #3

You 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…

I was wondering what this had to do with the other picnik.

Re: Piknik - my full screen color picker

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Post by jadedoto » Sat, Oct 23, 2010, 4:02 AM UTC

On Chrome/Linux it seems that when I make the luminosity go to 0 (that is, solid black), I lose all readability half of the text...