Briskbit™ Color Grabber is a feature rich software used for sampling the precise color of any pixel on your screen and translating it to any value format you need. The software basically samples in real-time each pixel the cursor is hovering on when you move the mouse.

Icons Explained

Icon	Title	Description	Default
	Start Grab	Starts the sampling process – once clicked the sampling process begins.	No
	Stop Grab	Stops the sampling process. You can also use the mouse left or middle click to stop the sampling process.	Yes
	Edit Mode - On	Allows you to type custom color value without using the sampling process. Type a value in the Value field to preview the color.	No
	Edit Mode - Off	Disables the Value field from manual editing	Yes
	Show magnifier	Shows the Floating Magnifier Window below the cursor and enlarges the pixel being sampled	Yes
	Hide magnifier	Hides the Floating Magnifier Window below the cursor and enlarges the pixel being sampled	No
	Always on top on	Pins the window on top of other screens	Yes
	Always on top off	Unpins the window from being on top of other windows	No
	Color Window	Shows the Windows Color dialog	NA
	Copy Color	Copies the sampled color value in the specified format to the clipboard	NA
	Help	Shows online help pages	NA
	About	Shows the About window	NA

Using Color Grabber

Briskbit Color Grabber allows you to sample any color on the screen. The color sampled can be converted to many formats and then copied to the clipboard so it can be pasted into other software.

Grabbing a color

1. click the pipette icon
2. Move your mouse towards the area you want to sample the color needed
   • The application samples the color found exactly below the cursor's hot spot – the sampled value is in its native RGB format
     

     In the Preview area you will see a preview of the color being sampled
     The Value field will display the sampled color value in native RGB format
     The R, G, B, and A values are dynamically changed with the mouse movement according to the sampled color value

3. To stop grabbing you can either use the:
   • Left mouse click; or
   • Middle mouse click in cases where left click changes the sample color

Format Conversion

Once you sampled a color or typed in a RGB color value, you can convert it to different values.

The available options are:

Color Models

• RGB - Red, Green, Blue
• RGBA - Red, Green, Blue, Alpha
• BGR - Blue, Green, Red
• BGRA - Blue, Green, Red, Alpha
• HSB - Hue, Saturation, Brightness
• HSBA - Hue, Saturation, Brightness, Alpha

Color Values

• ASM - Values that match Assembler programming requirements
• C/C++/C# - Values that match C, C++, and C# programming requirements
• VB - Values that match Visual Basic programming requirements
• HTML - Values that match HTML and CSS requirements
• HTML w/o - Values that match HTML and CSS requirements without the # prefix
• Objective C - ARGB values are presented in the range of [0, 1]

Mathematical Base

Specifies the mathematical base used for displaying the color value

• HEX - Hexadecimal (base 16) numeral system
• DEC - Decimal (base 10) numeral system

Copy to clipboard structure

Specifies what value should be copied to the clipboard

• VAL - the value in the Value field
• RGB - the value in the R,G,B, and A or H, S, B, and A fields with the appropriate punctuation

Predefined and Manual Values

You can also use Color Grabber to convert either predefined system colors or colors that you manually type into the application.

Known Colors- displays a list of predefined system colors

Color Window– Windows native color select window

Manual editing– allows you to type in a value in the Value field.

In order to enable editing of the Value field click the Edit Mode toggle button to be On .
In order to stop editing click Edit Mode toggle button to be Off .

Copying Converted Color

Once the color value shown in the Preview window is the color you want to use in your application, you can use the Copy Color button to copy the color value to the clipboard so it can be pasted into other applications.

The value of the color being copied is taken from either:

• Value field; or from
• RGB/HSB values

According to what is selected in the Format values