Utility: Web/Windows Color Manager
Current Version: 4.5
Registration: FREE!

This little program started it's life as a (very) simple color-picker. I created it after a friend at work sent me the n^th link to a color chart on the web in one day. She needed a better way to choose colors.

The original version had just a few features, including basic red/green/blue selectors, the blend bar and the single-point color sampler tool. She loved it... but it had the potential to be so much more. I kept working on it till the initial Blue Knot release was version 3.2! Starting with version 4.0 the program was re-designed from scratch, giving it a more organized, easier to use interface.

ColorLab lets you pick colors from seven different sources: the standard color dialog, sampling a point on the screen, sampling an average of a 7x7 pixel screen area, adjusting Red-Green-Blue and/or Hue-Saturation-Luminance values (graphically or numerically), adjusting the current color's brightness +/- 5, 10, 15 or 20%, calculating the "average color" of a GIFF or JPEG, choosing from the 216 color WebSafe Palette, or by importing colors from the body tag of a web document.

Once you have a color, or several colors, you can:

• Create and tweak color schemes for Windows
• Pick the nearest 'web-safe' color
• View sample text in the 16 standard colors with the chosen color as background.
• Copy hex codes and HTML tags by double clicking a list of common tags (Floating list stays on top while working with other programs)
• 'Blend' two colors to get a smooth range or colors
• Save your favorites! Favorites can also be copied to the clipboard, printed, or be used to generate an HTML color chart for the web! (Ironic, I know...) Alternate style!
• Test your web graphics against your color as a background.
• Build an HTML color scheme and copy the BODY tag to the clipboard or export to an HTML or ASP file.

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Requires VB6 Runtime Libraries.

ColorLab is freeware! You can use it as much as you like at no charge. But if you would like to support the cost of development and maintaining this site, I certainly won't stop you! You can make a donation thru PayPal by clicking the button above.

Be notified when ColorLab is updated!

• Windows Color manager & tweaks
• Expanded Help File
• Smaller download (new features and smaller? Yep!)
• New Icon & choice of icons for Favorites files

• When sampling a color from the screen, colors cannot be sampled from a second monitor (if equipped)

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