What is ColorDabbler?

Html Page Color Planning

Web Authoring is now easier with ColorDabbler. Just drag your colors to the html page and save the results as a web page for further editing with your favorite web editor.
Save sessions so that you can reload your old designs for further enhancements. Four choices of frame-styles are available. The colors and their names can easily be exported to the clipboard in commented Html format for those who just want the color values for their html scripts.

Home Decorating

Simulate house painting by dragging colors to pictures of living rooms, kitchens and home exteriors. You can choose from 8 different interiors and exteriors. You can colorize the walls, floors, furniture, counters, baseboards, trim etc...
Clicking the print button gives you the option of producing either a picture or a print-out of a nicely formatted color sample page with numerical color values.

Palette Creation

You can make color palettes easily by dragging colors to the color palette window. Rearranging the colors is simply done by dragging as well. You can load and save palettes as well as select them from a drop-down list. The palette colors can be named for easy reference. Palettes and their color names can easily be copied to the exportlist where they can be outputted to printer, picture or word processor.

Color List Exporting

Any colors dragged to the exportlist can be exported to printer, picture or word processor (in rich text format). Numerical color values can be displayed as C++, Visual Basic, Java, RGB, HSB, CMYK or Integer values. Colors in the exportlist can be named for easy reference.
Color value, color name and color swatches are exported for easy referencing and collaboration.
The exportlist has a copy button that copies the color list to the clipboard in a nice format.

Color Harmonies

Finding color harmonies is easy with ColorDabbler. When you change the current color, other colors with the same saturation and brightness are automatically calculated. Analogous, Complementary and Triadic color combinations are also calculated with buttons to control the analogous color spread as well as the brightness and saturation of triadic colors. You can change the background color of the harmonious color area to whichever color you like, to see how the harmonious colors look like on different backgrounds. 

Color Adjustment Tools

Color sliders for RGB, HSB and CMYK make easy work of modifying your colors. The sliders can be set to change dynamically to reflect the other color sliders, or be set to remain static.
There are also two other methods of modifying your colors - the color cube mode and the color ranges mode. These methods help you to better control your color values. You can see all the brightness and saturation of any hue for easy visual selection of colors.

Fullscreen Mode

Fullscreen mode gives you color values across your entire screen, for unobstructed viewing. You can set the number of colors anywhere from 1 single color to 256 different colors. Numerical color values are displayed in RGB, HSB or CMYK format. The keyboard can be used to navigate the color wheel, as well as adjust brightness and saturation until you find the color you like. Selecting that color returns you to ColorDabbler and makes that color the current color.

Eyedropper Mode

Eyedropper mode minimizes ColorDabbler and lets you select colors from anywhere on your windows desktop or from other programs. You can zoom in and out for easier color selection.