If I get a color I want I can do Command L and now you can see I move and it doesn't move with me. For instance the ability to Lock Position and also view a bunch of different things like Lock X and Y. Stretching this over a background or just being able to grab it using the Eyedropper tool in different image editing apps. So this can also be useful for a variety of different things. You can see that it pastes this rectangle here that is a solid color rectangle. I'm going to go into Pixelmator here and I'm going to paste. Now I'm going to get an image here so I can paste that into TextEdit but it is not as useful. Let's try using the Option, Command, and C or right here Copy Color as Image. This is far more useful and I can paste this directly into a lot of image editing programs that allow me to change the color of the fill or the line or whatever. If I still had it set to the decimal values then you would get three numbers here instead. Now it is pasting this as a hexadecimal because I changed the display to hexadecimal. Now I'm going to go over to TextEdit here and I'm going to paste. So let's try Shift Command C, grabbing this red here. You want to remember the shortcuts Shift Command C and Option Command C. Now you don't ever want to use the menu here because your cursor is going to move. If you look here you can do Copy Color as Text or Copy Color as Image. If you find a color you like you don't have to just rely on remembering it or writing it down. You can adjust it to a pretty large size as well or you can go back down to a single pixel. So you can kind of get a general idea of like all these together, to the eye, look like this one individual color here. You can see the big swatch here, this part, actually gives you the single color that matches everything that is there. So instead of wanting to get to say a single pixel you can change it and grab a group of pixels and see what kind the average color is between that group. That is a lot more useful than seeing the colors as numbers. I find that if you go into View and change Display Values to hexadecimal then you get R, G, B but you get these hexadecimal values which you will recognize if you do any kind of web development or work in PhotoShop or anything you can see the color here would be 94 2F 35 for instance. Now that is only somewhat useful because most people don't use R, G, B values for things. R, G, B, red, green and blue values for that specific pixel. I can see exactly what pixel I'm looking at and it gives me the values. So I go over here and I can look at this letter right there. Notice that whatever the cursor is over I see in an enlarged version of it in Digital Color Meter. Say you are working in PhotoShop or some other imaging tool and you want to grab a color that you see, like say this red that is being used here on this text, and you want to find out exactly what color that is. Say you are looking at a webpage, like MacMost page here. So, for instance, let's bring up Safari here. It just will show you what color is underneath the cursor. When you run it you just get this little window here. You'll find it in your Applications folder under Utilities, and there it is, or you can just search for it, like I do, with Spotlight. The digital color meter is a little app that comes with your Mac. On this episode let's take a look at the digital color meter utility on your Mac. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with.
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