Window color picker OS X and pictures as a color palette

floating window Colors (Colors) He lives in OS X, and many Mac programs for ages, and it is in itself, without any additional extensions, lets you choose the color you want a whole bunch of different ways. One of the coolest - use as a color palette of any image.

When working in any application where the use of color is provided, call the box Colors (Colors) - normally used for this key combination ⌘⌥C. In the resulting window, click the fourth tab - you can see the color spectrum? Clicking anywhere in its place, you choose the appropriate color, which is directly under the mouse cursor. This spectrum - the usual picture, and it just may be replaced by any other picture in one of three ways.

The first way: you can simply drag the desired image file directly into the area of ​​the color spectrum. The second method is to copy the picture from another program and paste the picture in the window

Colors (Colors) with the command Paste from the clipboard (New from Clipboard)Which is in the drop-down list below the display area of ​​the image. The third way: to choose in the same dropdown list of commands New from the File (New from File)Which opens a standard file download window, through which you need to open the image you want.

In all three cases, you will see the picture, from which you can take the color in the same way as is done with a standard color spectrum.

Note that the drop-down list Picture (Image) will be a new item - New (New)If the picture pasted from the clipboard, or by the name of the downloaded file. This "color picker" You can specify a different name - the team Rename (Rename) in the lower drop-down list. There is also a team and Delete (Remove) - in case if the current picture-palette you no longer need.

Now the most important question: what does it do? First of all, in order to limit the range of colors themselves, for example, in the design of a document or presentation. For example, if you use as the background picture of the forest or the sea waves - the colors for text and graphics best to choose from the same range as your background. The thing that can be inserted into the window Colors (Colors) as a palette to color in the finished project looked harmoniously as possible.