#Online color picker from image windows#

The colored bar at the top of the Color Picker editors lets you: You can choose which color formats are visible in the editor in Color formats in PowerToys Settings. The Color Picker editor stores a history of up to 20 picked colors and lets you copy them to the clipboard. In the enlarged area, you can pick the color of the element.

Zoom in by scrolling the mouse wheel up.

Move the mouse pointer close, but not over the element.

To select the color of the non-hover state of a element: If you want to see the area under your cursor in more detail, scroll up to zoom in.Ĭolor Picker copies the selected color to the clipboard in the Default color format you've chosen in Color Picker's settings (default: HEX).

Only pick a color activates Color Picker and copies the selected color to the clipboardĪfter activating Color Picker, select a color on your screen to pick that color.

Pick a color and open editor activates Color Picker, then opens an editor and copies the selected color to the clipboard after you've picked a color.

Open editor opens an editor that lets you choose a color from the colors history, fine-tune a selected color, or pick a new color.

You can choose what happens when you activate Color Picker (default: Win+ Shift+ C) by changing Activation Behavior:

#Online color picker from image windows#

A system-wide color picking utility for Windows to pick colors from any screen and copy it in a configurable format to the clipboard.Įnable Color Picker in the Color Picker tab in PowerToys.