My Racket

Have an of you guys ever wanted a cool Color Picker that is RIGHT there ready for you to use? Yeah, me too!

I have tried various things like, those web color pickers that are really stupid and annoying (although they do work for the most part).

I also have this thing called, VMN Toolbox! It is a down-loadable Toolbox that has multiple things in it. Most of which I have no use for, I just use the color thingamabob. It is very handy and works fabulously, but it IS annoying because you can not get rid of it. It is always there wherever you put it, just staring at you. It is free though, and we all love free shiz.

BUT, *enters drum roll here* - I have discovered something amazing. Well, not really discovered… just like a Christopher Columbus type discovery. You know like, something that was already discovered that I just say I discovered to say I did? Anyway, it is a Mozlilla Firefox Add-on. It is called, Colorzilla Color Picker. If you do not run Mozlilla Web Browser, than you can not get this add-on! If you run Internet Explorer, you do not deserve this add-on.

Colorzilla Color Picker Add-On

For all you people that have ever downloaded an add-on for Firefox, you do it the exact same way as you would anything else. Just click, INSTALL COLORZILLA.

Now, once you have downloaded it, here is how it works.

You will see a little box on the left hand side of your Firefox page, down at the very bottom. If you can not see it, get your magnifier out, geez.

Once you have found a color that you need to know the number for, click that little box one time, and move your mouse over the color you want. You should see a little + looking sign as you are doing this.

You can look down in the little box as you move your mouse and see that it changes colors as you move.

Find the color and click one time on it.

Tip: If you are in a hurry, instead of clicking once on your color you want, just stick the mouse over it and on the bottom next to you color box, you will see that code for your color.

You have your color now, right? Well, maybe you would like a different shade for that color, so all you have to do is: Double Click on your color box. An even bigger box will come up with a color chart and gradient.

There you can mess around with your colors and make them exactly what you want. Of course, as you can see, all the RGB and HSV codes are there. And on the bottom, there is the CSS code, if you are like me and mess with CSS stuff. It works very good.

If you want to get really cool with it, you can go to the tab on top of your color picker, and see PALETTES. This has a whole bunch of stuff you can mess with. Stuff that I really do not want to explain; I am sure you can figure it all out.

Be sure to send this out to all your Twitter buddies.

Cait Hagar