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ColorPicker App

ColorPicker is a powerful screen color picker based on Qt's QColorDialog Class.

📢 Not Maintained anymore, use successor: ColorSmith

Snap Store: https://snapcraft.io/colorsmith

Flathub: https://flathub.org/en/apps/com.ktechpit.colorsmith

Source code: https://github.com/keshavbhatt/ColorSmith


A colour picker and colour editor for web designers and digital artists, With Color Picker, identifying the colours, saving and editing is a quick and simple job.

Color Picker features include:

  • Five formats of colour codes: HTML, HexRGBA, RGB, HSB/HSV, CMYK and their variations. Conversion of HTML, HEX and RGB colour codes into the corresponding colours.

  • Colour picker for easy handling and greater precision.

  • Colour list for saving and reusing the picked colour samples for each picked colour.

  • Color preview widget

  • Progressive color pattern generator

  • Support Switching three themes - System theme, Flat Light theme and Dark theme.

  • More features soon..

Requirements

  • Qt5 or above

Build instructions

For Linux, Windows and Mac. In all cases, you need a copy of the code:

git clone https://github.com/keshavbhatt/ColorPicker

CLI method

These instructions perform an out-of-tree build, which is easier to manage.

mkdir build
cd build
qmake ../src
make

Assuming everything runs correctly, you can create an installation directory like so:

make INSTALL_ROOT=/path/to/installation install

This is useful when preparing to package ColorPicker for distribution. If you just want to install it locally, leave out the INSTALL_ROOT parameter.

GUI Method

  • Open the .pro file in Qt creator
  • Configure with one of your preferred toolkit version (Should be Qt5 or above)
  • Once project is configured, Press Build or Run button to perform respective action

Install and project status

License: MIT

Stable and nightly Build on any snapd enabled Linux Distribution can be installed using:

color-picker color-picker

Get it from the Snap Store

snap install color-picker

AUR

You can install it from the AUR:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/colorpicker-keshavbhatt/

Screenshot (could be old)

ColorPicker Application for Linux Desktop ColorPicker Application for Linux Settings dialog ColorPicker Application for Linux Shade dialog