Piknik - my full screen color picker
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Piknik - my full screen color picker
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Re: Piknik - my full screen color picker
#2I may have just discovered my latent epilepsy
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#3You 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?
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 use case? What value does it provide that the other dozen or so top color pickers DON'T offer?
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#4I love this site and will use it all the time if you change the domain name.
Also once I choose a colour I think you should have a cool little div down the side of the page that shows me a thumbnail of the previous colours, so I can contrast it etc
I will bookmark it for now but please change the domain name.
something that I can google if I ever don't have my bookmarks with me
easy colour picker.com
I'm kind of at this stage where I can't remember what the apps name is because there are so many
jigg.ly pigg.ly something.ly blah.ly hate it
Re: Piknik - my full screen color picker
#5Simple and useful. I like it.
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#6Fun!
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#7That's nifty! One thing I find annoying about colour pickers is that they show a TINY preview in a small rectangle. When you fill a big chunk of screen real estate (like for a background) it looks totally different (to my crappy design eye).
This picker might not be practical for everyday kind of professional use - but it's a great alternative for trying to pick a new colour when you don't know exactly what you're looking for.
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#8Interesting, 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.
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#9Its simple, but it works well, especially to pick main theme colours, mrspeaker rightly points out that doing so in a tiny preview window rarely gives you a proper indication. I'm not entirely sure that it actually fits into a designer or css workflow, but it _is_ enjoyable. Plus it appears to be HTML5, so it has electrolytes.
A few thoughts (without necessarily providing any solutions!):
* While interesting that the logo changes colour, I find that it nearly always picks a gradient which is extremely uncomplimentary to the background. It would be less of a distraction if it was only white/black.
* When you click to lock the colour, it would be nice if it could leave a marker to show you where your choice was, so that you could make minor adjustments more easily (I guess the luminosity makes it a little tricky!).
* The links for the colours at the bottom of the app say rgb(239,16,146), which would be great for CSS to copy-paste the correct format, but when you click it actually enters '239 16 146'. The hex code is the only one which gives me a useful value straight into the clipboard.
* I missed the note about luminosity at first (I count myself as a typical user in that I do not read instructions), it makes sense and works quite well when you actually start scrolling, but is a little hidden.
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#10Beautiful. If Mr. Aurlien could somehow work in CSS3 gradients too, something like this - http://www.colorzilla.com/gradient-editor/ - I'd be willing to pay for it.
I wish there was an easy way to buy web apps like I can buy iPhone apps. I'd easily throw down a buck for Piknik + some kind of gradient generator.