Guide

Introduction

Gpick is an advanced color picker. It provides tools for:

• picking, tweaking, naming, comparing, and combining colors
• export to/import from common palette formats.
• generating palettes from images
• generating colorschemes and gradients
• arranging, combining, and splitting palettes
• testing colorschemes on layouts

• Overview of features
• 1. Menu
• 2. Main panel, showing one of (ColorPickerPanel, SchemeGeneration, LayoutPreview) in a tabbed interface.
• 3. ColorSliders alter the color in the active swatch slot. A few other miscellaneous functions are included here as well.
• 4. PaletteList lists the colors in the palette and allows you to select and perform operations on them.
• 5. ToolPanel shows one of the secondary tools (access the View->Secondary View menu item to choose which, or use the shortcuts listed in that menu)
• 6. Pick button activates the floating color picker (also activateable by pressing Ctrl+P)
• 7. Swatches store 6 colors for easy comparison and show the color that the mouse is currently over.
• 8. ZoomArea textually describes the color the mouse is over and shows a zoomed view of the area around the mouse.
• 9. Status / message bar. Also shows information about the count of total colors in the palette and count of selected colors.
• ColorPicker
• CommonActions
• Preferences