Gpick is an application that allows you to sample any color from anywhere on the desktop, and use it to create palettes (i.e. collections of colors) for use in graphic design applications.
Gpick also has other features that help in the creation of color palettes.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Magnification and mouse pointer control with keyboard.
- Automatic color name assignment.
- Export to following formats:
- Inkscape/Gimp Palette (*.gpl)
- Adobe Swatch Exchange (*.ase)
- Alias/WaveFront Material (*.mtl)
- Cascaded Style Sheet (*.css)
- Hyper Text Markup Language (*.html)
- Customizable text file
- Import from following formats:
- Inkscape/Gimp Palette (*.gpl)
- Adobe Swatch Exchange (*.ase)
- Customizable text file
- Oversampling with five falloff types:
- Multiple pixel values are averaged to help picking colors from sources with noise, patterns and etc, where each pixel is different and overall color is produced by different amounts of particular color.
- Palette from image.
- Color scheme creation tools.
- Mix two or more colors using variable number of steps and different mixing types.
- Lightness and/or saturation variations.
- Harmonious colors.
Website: www.gpick.org
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Albertas Vyšniauskas
License: BSD 3-Clause “New” or “Revised” License
Gpick is written in C++ and C. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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