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<title><![CDATA[By: KH]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/color-picker-pro/#comment-71040</link>
<description><![CDATA[LMAO. If there is indeed better, always-free software out there, why would you not want people to inform you of that? Don't complain, just click the link and download the superior program.  And then THANK them for taking the time to make your life a little bit better, don't get angry with them.  If GOTD wanted to prevent negative comments, they'd remove the thumbs down button.

Listen, if there is comment after comment saying, this product is not as good as X free alternative out there, I have news for you: THERE IS PROBABLY A BETTER PRODUCT OUT THERE. So thank the poster for preventing you from wasting your time determining that for yourself, and go download the other, better product]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:56:34 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Celt42]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/color-picker-pro/#comment-71039</link>
<description><![CDATA[Good point, Harpo (#122), though I didn't mean to imply trickery on GAOTD's part, just that their system might be on the blink.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:41:53 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Skye-hook]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/color-picker-pro/#comment-71038</link>
<description><![CDATA[Installed &amp; runs great on xp sp3. Works very well, &amp; fast &amp; easy. Magnifies what curser is over automatically, so you can find tiny pixels of color even. Great program! Thanks! :)]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 02:40:10 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Shadane]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/color-picker-pro/#comment-71037</link>
<description><![CDATA[as a GFX person - this saves me having to open photo shop, paste screnie and continue - quick easy and efficient. So to all the complainers, this software might not be useful TO YOU but it is to some of us, and PickTool - HAS YET top give me ease of use like this. I have testd a few "colour pickers" - and this has got to be the best yet]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:25:31 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Doc Immortal]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/color-picker-pro/#comment-71036</link>
<description><![CDATA[I checked out this program.  If I were to pay for it, I'd expect more color scheme combinations.  I've taken a class that covered color schemes.  There are some not found here. Namely: Monochromatic, Analogous, Split-complementary and Triadic.  You can do Monochromatic to a very small degree.  For the others, you're on your own.

What may work better as far as saturation and brightness is concerned is adding sliders, one for saturation, one for brightness (and technically, you'd want one for hue).  So, you could use "drag" to select the color and then use the sliders to make the color darker/brighter or less/more saturated.

The help could have explained the "drag" option better.  Basically, you have to select drag from the capture &gt; mode and left-click the magnifying glass and then drag from there to the area.

Many of the formats are minor differences (photoshop is similar to HTML, Delphi, C++, Visual Basic, hexadecimal ... just change # for $ or add semicolons etc).  So I'm not impressed of multiple variants of the same "flavor" so to speak.  The ones I've seen typically used are HTML, RGB, CMY, CMYK, and occasionally HSI/HSB (aka HSL/HSV) which this program covers.

Putting the HTML/HEX values next to the colors is a bit redundant if they're going to be in the box below and are useless if you're not using html/hex values.  A better use of that space would be to keep the current color on the left and on the right have 3 boxes by 3 boxes of different colors (imagine a tic tac toe board where each area has a different color).  This is how it'd work: You'd select "More saturation" from the "Additional" drop down and each of the 9 colors would be a bit more saturated for the original color.  One might be 110%, one might be 125% and so on.  Clicking on one of the 9 "new" colors would display the values for that color.  The 3x3 grid would be useful for Monocromatic and other color schemes where there could be various colors that fall in that category.  I could draft a design for this, but they'd have to pay me for it. ;)

Overall, the program is okay.  Sometimes you want finer shades of differences instead of 1.5x and 2x brighter/darker or 1.5x and 2x less/more darker.  You can't do that with this program.  Also, there's no support for the various other colors schemes I mentioned.  

I'd expect fixed values like these for a free program.  For a program I'd pay for, I'd want sliders so I can vary these values by smaller increments (ex 10-20% brighter).  Also, if I'm paying for it, I'd expect support for the other color schemes.

So, with all that in mind, I'd give it a 6/10.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:47:43 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: harpo2448]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/color-picker-pro/#comment-71035</link>
<description><![CDATA[To #110 Celt42

Regarding your observation:  When the comments are coming fast and furious like they seem to today (due to lots of activity) then the votes seem to randomly jump when you click on the "yes" or "no".

From my own experience my vote may cause the counters to go one way or the other by more than (or opposite to) my one vote, or even remain unchanged, because other people have been voting while I've been reading all the comments.

The next time you want to see your vote sway the count in the direction you want and expect, first try reloading the page, then quickly find the comment you want to vote on, note the vote count, and vote before someone else might.  You'll likely see it behave "properly".  

I really don't think the GAOTD folks or their website are doing anything tricky.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:16:30 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Chris]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/color-picker-pro/#comment-71034</link>
<description><![CDATA[Nice! I have been looking for a tool like this. I normally have to copy and paste into Dreamweaver to get the color value I need. Thanks!!!]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:50:44 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Arcanis]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/color-picker-pro/#comment-71033</link>
<description><![CDATA[As a web designer, this soft save me a lot time (print screen, irfan, ctrl+v, memorize hex value of color on cursor in top bar)
certainly, there are freeware programs, but this is very nice and useable]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:23:41 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Robert]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/color-picker-pro/#comment-71032</link>
<description><![CDATA[Wow. Great application, installs on Vista fine and would be great for choosing colors on a website.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:38:51 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Harriet Woods]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/color-picker-pro/#comment-71031</link>
<description><![CDATA[I appreciate GAOTH very much and check it daily.  I feel the commenting today was not intended to stop negative 'feedback' on a product, because all feedback is useful; But to encourage REAL feedback that gives an opinion about the product, neg or positive.

But those who complain of GaOTH not showing things 'they' like, does get old.  If the product doesn't suit me one day, I'll check again tomorrow.  And, if I have to ask what it's used for, I wouldn't download it just because it's free.

I especially want to know of a problem issue I may come across.  I like the links to other freeware and use many of those.  I didn't know GAOTH had its own free list of products, so I learn from reading the comments too.

Thanks, GAOTH!]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:17:14 -0500</pubDate>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Harriet Woods]]></dc:creator>
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