I'm writing a pixel editor, and I want to build a kickass color picker and palette tool. But I'm pretty noob at actually pixelling, so I don't have a great feel for what's important in those tools.
I remember seeing a colour picker somewhere in which you would choose a colour, and it would show you the colour plus a couple of shades lighter, darker, redder, bluer and greener, but I haven't been able to find it.
Some references I've collected:
http://hslpicker.com/,
http://www.colourlovers.com/colors/add, and some more crazy stuff like
http://www.colorotate.org/. I collected some assorted screenshots and more references:
http://nornagon.net/color-pickers.htmlAs for organising palettes, I haven't really seen anything more than a list of colours. Would it be helpful to be able to organise a palette into a set of ramps? Is it nicer to organise it in a freeform way, like
or
(from Helm and Arne on this thread
http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/index.php?topic=4306.0)?
How do you like to choose and organise your colours? Is there a particular tool you love to pieces? Is there something you wish you could do that nothing currently supports?
Ideas very welcome!