ColorHexa is a free to use web service that lets you analyze colors through their color codes. You can visit the website and without registering for any account, begin to learn about the colors you have. The site accepts colors in the form of HEX, RGB, CMYK, HSL, HSV, LAB, LCH, LUV, XYZ, xyZ, and Hunter-Lab values – needless to say, that is a wide support of color codes. Once you enter your color code, information about its composition is quickly displayed. You are even shown relevant color schemes and conversions to other codes for that particular color.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Provides information on colors.
• Supports a wide range of color codes.
• Can work as a color code converter.
• Shows color schemes relevant to a particular color.
• Similar tools: ColRD, Wenovo Pictures To Color, Color-Palette-Maker, ColorHunter, ColorSuckr and ColorSchemeDesigner.
• Also read related articles:
  How To Search For the Perfect Color Scheme
  10 Sites to Play with Colors and Create Color Palettes

Check out ColorHexa @ www.colorhexa.com (By Umar from AllthatIsApple)

The palette maker is this application’s main feature. It makes it easy to create the range of colors you need for a particular project. Making a bunch of color palettes and then having no use for them would not make much sense, so they give you the ability to export them to Photoshop, Illustrator or GIMP. This way, you can take your creations into your application of choice and make use of them.

The app also allows users to create custom gradients. Anything you create on the app can be shared with fellow ColRD users if you register for a free account.

Features:

• Easily create custom color palettes, gradients and colors.
• Export to Illustrator, Photoshop and GIMP.
• Full screen preview.
• Shows the colors most similar to the one you’re choosing of the 4096 web smart colors.
• Similar tools: Wenovo Pictures To Color, Color-Palette-Maker, ColorHunter, ColorSuckr and ColorSchemeDesigner.
• Also read related articles:
  How To Search For the Perfect Color Scheme
  10 Sites to Play with Colors and Create Color Palettes

Find ColRD @ the Google Chrome Web Store

Wenovo Pictures to Color is a freeware application for Windows computers. The app is sized under 1 MB and installs quickly. Once the app has been installed on your computer you can open nearly any image file on your computer from the app.

The picture is quickly opened and its color palette is instantly shown. You can export the entire palette to an HTML file or you can click on individual colors to obtain their HEX, RGB, HSB, and HSL codes.

With these simple steps, you are able to use the color palettes of pictures stored on your computer.

Features:

• A user-friendly desktop app.
• Compatible with Windows.
• Lets you get color palette of digital pictures.
• Supports wide number of file formats.
• Provides you with HEX, RGB, HSB, and HSL codes for colors.
• Lets you export palette to HTML file.

Check out Wenovo Pictures to Color @ http://www.wenovo.com/freeware/download-pictures-to-color.php (By Umar from AllthatIsApple)

Color Picker Online is a free to use web tool that lets you discover new colors and obtain their usable codes. You can start finding new colors by keeping one factor constant amongst the HSV code or the RGB code of the color. For instance, select the button of ‘H’ and move the color selection in the far left color panel; this will change saturation and value numbers while keeping the hue constant. To change the hue value you will need to change the vertical slider that appears in the middle. When you have found a color you like, you can simply note the HSV, RGB, and HEX values that are displayed.

Features:

• A user-friendly web tool.
• Ideal for graphics designers.
• Lets you discover new colors.
• Displays HSV, RGB, and HEX codes of colors.

Check out Color Picker Online @ www.colorpicker.in (By Umar from AllThatIsApple)

Color Palette Maker is a free to use web tool that lets you discover new colors and create a palette of them. While doing so you can upload pictures of your rooms to get a better idea of the colors that will suit your rooms. Once your palette has been created you can save it online and share with your friends. You can also search for products that include colors in your palette.

Features:

• A user-friendly web tool.
• Lets you discover new colors and create color palettes.
• Lets you save your room and palette online and share them.
• Lets you upload photos of your rooms to generate better suiting color palettes.
• Lets you find products that include colors of your palette.
• Similar tools: ColorHunter, ColorSuckr and ColorSchemeDesigner.
• Also read related articles:
  How To Search For the Perfect Color Scheme
  10 Sites to Play with Colors and Create Color Palettes

Check out Color Palette Maker @ www.stylishhome.com/Design/Color-Palette-Maker (by MOin from ThumbPress)

ColorSpire is a free and simple to use web service that helps you discover new colors and then check how it looks with your project’s current color schemes. Creating new colors can be done using the color selectors and the options to brighten, darken, saturate, desaturate, and randomize your colors. Alternatively you can enter the RGB and HEX codes for colors. You can select multiple colors and have them appear next to one another to compare them. By selecting one new color and the rest of the colors as your project’s current color scheme, you can perform a quick comparison.

The comparison window displays the selected colors on top with their HEX codes. To use a color, simply note its HEX code.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Very useful for web designers.
• Helps discover new colors.
• Lets you find colors by color selectors.
• Lets you enter RGB and HEX codes.
• Provides HEX codes for new colors.
• Lets you compare colors.
• Similar tools: ColorHunter, ColorSuckr and Colors Palette Generator.
• Also read related articles:
  10 Sites to Play with Colors and Create Color Palettes
  3 Free Color Picking Tools To Choose Colors From Your Desktop

Check out ColorSpire @ www.colorspire.com (by MOin from ThumbPress)

ChangeColors is a browser extension for Google Chrome. It lets you quickly change the color scheme of any website according to your preferences. With the extension installed you can see its icon in the browser’s URL area. Clicking on the icon drops down the theme overriding options where you can change the theme of the currently open tab, all tabs, or all tabs with the current domain. The colors are instantly changed and the webpage is displayed.

To set your preferred color scheme you need to enter the extension’s options page. From here you can control a lot of things including colors for background and text, and whether or not to show Flash objects. Hotkey shortcuts are also supported by the extension and can be seen on the options page.

Features:

• A user-friendly browser extension.
• Compatible with Google Chrome.
• Lets you override color schemes of websites with your preferred color scheme.
• Lets you exclude Flash objects from websites.
• Support hotkey shortcuts.
• Similar tools: Color Combos, Colordev’s Color Machine, CheckMyColours, Readable, FontFonter, ViewLike.us and Page Preview.
• Also read related articles:
• Check Your Website Design In Different Browsers With Adobe BrowserLab
• Preview a Web Page in Multiple Browsers with BrowserShots

Check out ChangeColors @ https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jbmkekhehjedonbhoikhhkmlapalklgn# (via Ghacks) (by MOin from ThumbPress)

WebColorizer is a simple to use website that lets you preview any website with a custom color theme. You start by creating an account on the website. Next you specify the site that you want to visualize. A preview of the site is loaded up in the left pane and the color controls are provided on the right pane. Color controls include hue, saturation, lightness, contrast, redness, greenness, and blueness.

As you change the color sliders, the preview is updated in real-time. You can download the results as a ZIP archive file that contains the color settings for your specified website. WebColorizer keeps a track of all sites you have ‘colorized’ and displays them on your dashboard.

Features:

• A user-friendly website.
• Helps visualize website with different color themes.
• You can visualize any live website.
• Offers various color options.
• Lets you download color options and site results as a ZIP archive.
• Keeps a track of the sites you have colorized.
• Similar tools: Colordev’s Color Machine, FontFonter, ViewLike.us and Page Preview.
• Also read related articles:
  Check Your Website Design In Different Browsers With Adobe BrowserLab
  Preview a Web Page in Multiple Browsers with BrowserShots

Check out WebColorizer @ www.webcolorizer.com (by MOin from ThumbPress)

ColorAPI is a website that helps you discover and use beautiful color palettes. The site lets you search for pictures on Flickr. Photos from the Flickr results are broken down into individual colors; you can see the main picture and the colors as columns in the background. You select the number of color columns: 6, 8, 10, or 12. Clicking on an image enlarges it and displays the codes of those background colors.

You can choose to view the HEX, RGB, HSL, and HSV codes of the colors. The site also lets you download the color swatch as an ASE file.

Features:

• A user-friendly website.
• Lets you discover new colors.
• Uses photo search results from Flickr.
• Provides HEX, RGB, HSL, and HSV of colors in photo results.
• Provides color swatch as ASE file.
• Similar tools: MultiColr and ColorSuckr.
• Also read related article: The Best 3 Tools to Search for Images Online by Color.

Check out ColorAPI @ www.colorapi.com (by MOin from ThumbPress)

HSL Color Picker is a free to use website that lets you create new colors using HSL codes i.e. Hue, Saturation, and Light Color codes. You create new colors by moving the sliders; the sliders correspond to hue, saturation, and light colors. The color is shown in the outline of the slider window; this color is updated as you move the sliders.

The hexadecimal, RGB, and HSL codes for the colors you create are shown under the slider tools from where you can copy them and use in your projects. In these code windows, you can type in your own code to view other colors.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Lets you create new colors.
• You create colors using HSL sliders.
• Corresponding hex, RGB, and HSL code for your created colors are given.
• Similar tools: RaphaelColorPicker, ColorSchemeDesigner and CSS3 Gradient Generator.

Check out HSL Color Chooser @ www.hslpicker.com (By Umar from TechCityInc)