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I may have just discovered my latent epilepsy
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 use case? What value does it provide that the other dozen or so top color pickers DON'T offer?

Not everything worth looking at is a marketable product.
"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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I was wondering what this had to do with the other picnik.
I 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

Simple and useful. I like it.
That'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.

Interesting, 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.
Its 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.

Beautiful. 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.

Very interesting... every color I stop on looks good in this, because of the transparency in the design.
It'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.

Cool. I found myself wanting to know the hex values of the bottom box (on and off state) as well - an instant palette.
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
Good 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 :)

Great, I'd just like to have a white, black and 50% grey reference within a page - maybe Piknik letters up there?
Thank you! This is awesome and extremely useful. Seriously, thank you for this.
It's fun. Now if I could lock in text styles it might even be useful.
Without reading the entire bottom bar on the site, I was kind of assuming one of the color codes would be copied to my clipboard once I clicked on the screen to lock it.

Still very cool though, good job.

This is fantastic, especially in full screen chrome. I'd love to hear the inspiration behind why you decided to build this.

+1 Bonus Points for the subtle faux color gradient in 'Piknik'

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.

I don't even think it needs to jump; in fact, that might actually be a bit jarring to the user.

Instead, why not have it so that that whole area is disabled (i.e. it doesn't interfere with the click-to-hold functionality) until the user holds on a colour? You click anywhere, enabling the bubble, you do your copy, then click anywhere outside the bubble to continue.

I'm not able to scroll. No scroll bar appears, page-down and page-up don't work. chromium-7.0.517.41 on linux. Anyone else have this problem? Am I missing something?
Think you need to use the scroll wheel on your mouse.
ENOENT

(I don't have a mouse on my laptop. I have a touchpad, and it is able to scroll by swiping or circular motions, but that didn't work on the page when I tried it.)

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Love using this with my Magic Mouse.
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
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Easily "exporting" the last interesting colors via clicking is nice. A stack of boxes showing the last N chosen colors would help eyeball themes.
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.