Alternative to Digital Colour Meter in Lion

One of the most used apps in L/SL I used was Digital Colour Meter. All the specific colour modes have been removed in Lion as well as the Hexadecimal output. Any web developers out there know that HEX values are pretty much the standard; especially in Photoshop, Fireworks and Dreamweaver.
Anyone know some good alternatives to make up for this incredible lack of functionality?

I have the same problem. It concerns me when Apple is discarding functionality in their updates. Even more so when it seems to be a corporate strategy: X-Raid, Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Pro Server. If you know of a fix or an alternative to Digital Colour Meter in Lion, please let me know!

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Where is "float window above other apps" in digital color meter ?

Where is the option to Float window above other apps in digital color meter (osx 10.8.2) ?

It's difficult to provide help without knowing your level of color-management expertise, but I think you've helped us some with that in post number 2.
Color management is basically this: Images and devices have certain color characteristics, and these are described by color profiles, sometimes also called color spaces.
1. You should not need to use the Proof Setup at all to view your images on your monitor. When things are set up properly Photoshop shows you accurate color without your choosing View - Proof Colors.
2. A color-managed application like Photoshop will try to show you accurate color on your display by interpreting both the image profile and your monitor profile and transforming the colors accordingly. BY DEFINITION this will look different than other applications which don't do color-management as these just pump the image RGB values directly out to the display.
Thus:
If your monitor profile indicates your monitor has a wide gamut, images with embedded profiles may appear less saturated inside Photoshop than from non-color-managed apps.
If you view images that have an embedded wide gamut profile (such as Adobe RGB 1998 or ProPhoto RGB), Photoshop and other color-managed applications will interpret that profile and the colors will likely appear more saturated in Photoshop than in a non-color-managed application.
It sounds as though the first case applies in your case here.
You can check to see what monitor profile is associated with your monitor through OS settings. I'm thinking, based on the caption buttons in your screen grab, that you've got Windows XP, but rather than go further with that assumption, I'll ask you to verify it first.
-Noel

The inventor of 32 bit digital colour

I'm seeking my old school teacher
The man who claim my invention of 32 bit digital colour
0000 0000 0/255 of colour
0000 0001 1/255 of color
0000 0010 2/255 of color
0000 0011 3/255 of color
0000 0100 4/255 0f color
0000 0101 5/255 of color
0000 0110 6/255 of color
0000 0111 7/255 0f color
0000 1000 8/255 of color
0000 1001 9/255 of color
0000 1010 10/255 of color
0000 1011 11/255 of color
0000 1100 12/255 of color
0000 1101 13/255 of color
0000 1110 14 255 of color
0000 1111 15/255 of color
0001 0000 16/255 of color
0000 0000 0/255 of colour
0001 0001 17/255 of color
0001 0010 18/255 of color
0001 0011 19/255 of color
0001 0100 20/255 0f color
0001 0101 21/255 of color
0001 0110 22/255 of color
0001 0111 23/255 0f color
0001 1000 24/255 of color
0001 1001 25/255 of color
0001 1010 26/255 of color
0001 1011 27/255 of color
0001 1100 28/255 of color
0001 1101 29/255 of color
0001 1110 30/255 of color
0001 1111 31/255 of color
0010 0000 32/255 of color
0000 0000 0/255 of colour
0010 0001 33/255 of color
0010 0010 34/255 of color
0010 0011 35/255 of color
0010 0100 36/255 0f color
0010 0101 37/255 of color
0010 0110 38/255 of color
0010 0111 39/255 0f color
0010 1000 40/255 of color
0010 1001 41/255 of color
0010 1010 42/255 of color
0010 1011 43/255 of color
0010 1100 44/255 of color
0010 1101 45/255 of color
0010 1110 46/255 of color
0010 1111 47/255 of color
0011 0000 48/255 of color
I'm wondering when I well get credit for inventing 12bit 24bit 32bit digital colour. I was wondering how much I'm worth at at $1 a copy sold for hardware and software, $1 a customer per month when rented, domain names, ISP PROVIDERS, digital tv

THe embedded alpha channel might be interfering with things,
you might
try turning off bitmap member 'use alpha channel' option or
transform
bitmap to 16 bit to strip off the alpha.

Mijn iPhoto en iTunes vinden op mijn iMac met Mountain Lion mijn iPod nano niet. En nochtans is hij goed aangesloen.Wat doe ik verkeerd?

Ik heb mijn iPod nano aangesloten op mijn iMac met Mountain Lion, maar hij wordt voorlopig niet herkent.
Op mijn vorige Mac werd die iPod langs iPhoto en iTunes direct opgemerkt en geinstalleerd.
Muziek en foto's werden onmiddelijk van die programma's op mijn iPod overgezet.
Wat loopt er nu verkeerd? Wat moet ik na het aansluiten van mijn iPod nano verder uitvoeren?

hello Mike,
after a lot of trying and contacting the Apple support in the netherlands...... it is recognized by iTunes and iPod updater. it look like it works but it is not possible to disconnect the iPod. I'll tryed the hard way, and have the next problem; the display of my iPod sign up with the Apple-logo and map-attention, the hard disc is working and
it is not possible to reset the iPod. also read and tryed the the next issue
Mitch 751, "Please read before you send your iPod to repairing", 10:59pm Aug 23, 2005 CDT
and now ????
Martin

How does digital color meter work ?

I just noticed the Digital Color Meter Application on Yosemite. Can / How does one make full use of this application to callibrate an Apple screen ?

Thank you. This is explains the principle, but now how to use and benefit from the application? Can one adjust the screen colors thanks to this info, and if so, how? Furthermore, is there a list somewhere the gives the values of the ideal colors so that one can analyze the data in the application ? On this video, the speaker says, for example, that any deviation of 3 points is a sign that something could be corrected... Yes, but how - and how does one know one is three points off ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_i4PooLCPM

Any alternatives to backing up before getting Lion?

I really wan't to upgrade to Lion, but I don't have any kind of external hard drive. Is there an alternative? Should I just put all of my most important stuff onto a USB drive? Or is it should I just stick to SL until I can buy and back up to a Time Capsule?

Basic Backup
Get an external drive at least equal in size to the internal hard drive and make (and maintain) a bootable clone/backup. You can make a bootable clone using the Restore option of Disk Utility. You can also make and maintain clones with good backup software. My personal recommendations are (order is not significant):
Carbon Copy Cloner
Data Backup
Deja Vu
Silver Keeper
Retrospect
Super Flexible File Synchronizer
SuperDuper!
Synchronize Pro! X
Synk Pro
Synk Standard
Tri-Backup
Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on backup and restore. Also read How to Back Up and Restore Your Files.
Although you can buy a complete external drive system, you can also put one together if you are so inclined. It's relatively easy and only requires a Phillips head screwdriver (typically.) You can purchase hard drives separately. This gives you an opportunity to shop for the best prices on a hard drive of your choice. Reliable brands include Seagate, Hitachi, Western Digital, Toshiba, and Fujitsu. You can find reviews and benchmarks on many drives at Storage Review.
Enclosures for FireWire and USB are readily available. You can find only FireWire enclosures, only USB enclosures, and enclosures that feature multiple ports. I would stress getting enclosures that use the Oxford chipsets especially for Firewire drives (911, 921, 922, for example.) You can find enclosures at places such as;
Cool Drives
OWC
WiebeTech
Firewire Direct
California Drives
NewEgg
All you need do is remove a case cover, mount the hard drive in the enclosure and connect the cables, then re-attach the case cover. Usually the only tool required is a small or medium Phillips screwdriver.
You will find that you can gobble together an external drive fairly inexpensively. I would not upgrade your system until you have a solid backup in place.

Colour profiles in Lion and windows 7 with fusion 3

Hello - I am a new iMac user and I also have windows 7x64 installed with fusion 3.
I am a keen photographer and use an external colour monitor calibrator - eye-one display 2 - not the latest version I know but it worked fine on my old PC running XP.    I have found out that Lion doesnt support this software as it needed rosetta(?) to run on a MAC but I have updated the windows driver for it to windows 7 and installed it on my windows 7 running with Fusion 3.
I have sucessfuly run the software on the windows on my mac and as always at the end it says the colour profile of my monitor has been changed to the new one.   My question therefore is:   Does this new profile only kick in when I am using windows or is the colour profile of the monitor the same in windows and Mac?   - if it is separate, is there a way I can either convert it to a MAC compatible version or transfer it to the MAC in any way as I work in Photoshop on the MAC and dont want to install it on Windows!
Thanks
Joy

well ive used both of the newest versions of vmware fusion and parallels and let me tell you, in my personal opinion i prefer parallels.
im using a 13" MBP 2.26 Ghz with 4 GB RAM, i chose to give parallels the "automatic" amount of RAM for windows 7 and it works like a charm, have no problems with it what so ever.
plus crystal viewing mode rocks!
give it a try with the demo version you might like it!

How do I change colour of Mountain Lion Finder window icons?

The icons are all grey and actually make it harder to locate things. I know there is Side Effects to change this but it's Beta and I don't know if this trustworthy. Anyone know of a safe way to do this?

Hello Bronson,
As the icons are part of the system, any application or plug-in that alters system files is considered invasive. While i do not have a solution or recommendation on how to get this done i do suggest backing up your data before attempting any UI changes. Better safe than sorry

Utilities/grab ... what does it do ?

hi all, i have been exploring Finder and clicking on a few "programs" in the Utilities folder, namely GRAB !!.
What does it do please, the "grab" icon sitting in the Dock tells me exactly NOTHING.
I have also found something called Digital Colour Meter, of course i don't really know what to do with this one either ... if it could identify a single colour on a web site i am making, by giving me a six figure hex number i would know what to with it.
any ideas anyone , please ?.
tim

Thanks again Capt Fred, i can happily report that Digital Colour Meter does exactly what i hoped it would do !.
I am playing at making a web site (not with iWeb, LOL) i had a colour being displayed that wasn't the correct colour, so with this "digital colour meter" i could find the hex number of the problem color and then find where it is defined in the HTML listing and thence change the colour to the one i wanted which i had again got the hex number from, with this little program.
I MUST STOP CALLING APP's "programs"
tim

Set up Illustrator for web use

I have synchronised colour settings using Bridge, to North America Web / Internet.
I have a simple grey rectangle in Illustrator. The info panel tells me that it is RGB 59,62,53 but when I use Apple Digital Color Meter it displays as 42,46,37.
I export it as PNG, and open the PNG in Photoshop, the PS info panel tells me it is 59,62,53 but now Digital Colour Meter says it is 45,48,40.
I open the same PNG in Firefox and it now displays as the correct 59,62,53 in Digital Colour Meter, but it looks a bit lighter than it does in PS and a lot lighter than it does in AI.
I just want Illustrator to display things AS THEY WILL APPEAR when exported as PNG (or PSD and then via Photoshop to PNG) and shown in Firefox or any other browser.
Can any one help?? This is driving me nuts.

Ooops found the preference.
Never mind.

Native Colour Profile for OS X

Does anyone know of a colour profile I can use in OS X lion that passes through the raw RGB values to the monitor like Windows does? None of the colour profiles that come with Lion, Adobe's suite or my monitor pass through the native RGB values of what's on-screen. For an example of what I mean by native colour profile, if I set the RGB colour value #45f4d3 in Photoshop or in CSS for a web page, I want the value #45f4d3 sent to my monitor, rather than some slight offset of that.
In other words, I want a colour profile that mimicks colour profiles being turned off completely (which I don't believe is possible under OS X; I will never understand why).
Thanks,
Tom

It has absolutely nothing to do with whether my monitor is calibrated or not. I want the RGB values encoded in my non-colour managed images and in my website stylesheets to be sent to the monitor as they are, without being altered by a colour profile.
To see what I mean yourself, go to the following web page: http://html-color-codes.info/#insertcolor (you can use any website colour picker, as long as it displayed RGB values and is driven by CSS).
In the colour picker, choose a colour, then launch the "DigitalColor Meter" app that comes with OS X and set the drop-down to "Display native colors". Compare the RGB values reported by the colour picker on the website with those reported by the digital color meter. If they're different (which I'm betting they are) then that's the problem I'm trying to resolve.
My end goal is simply to make the colour of my Mac be the exact same as it is on Windows, which basically means I want my Mac to pass the raw/native colour values to my monitor. Seeing as though I can't simply turn colour profiles off, I need a dumb colour profile that emulates this.

Colours different in different selectors on fireworks

Can anyone tell me why this is happening:
the CMYK value from the colors > cmyk sliders is outputnig the correct shade of green, however the color palette in the side bar is creating an extremely bright version. Almost looks like it's strying to match web colours. How can I tell it not to?

Let's say, for example, you have set up a color profile in Photoshop that compensates for your monitor, printer, operating sysem, etc. A file with that color profile embedded in it, exported from Photoshiop and imported into Fireworks, will have its color rendered differently than it did in Photoshop. That's because, like some browsers, Fireworks does not read color profile information. Fireworks was developed for creating graphics for display on screen. Color profile embedding was developed for print work. Instead of sampling the colors on your site with a digital color meter, use the eyedropper tool from Fireworks. To do that, open one of the color swatches pop-ups and drag its eyedropper (color selector) across the screen, outside the Fireworks GUI, to a part of the screen that displays the color you want to sample.

Pale blue colour not visible on internal display

I have a 15" MacBook Pro 1,1 with Mac OS X 10.5.8 and ATI Radeon X1600.
Recently I have noticed that I can't see pale blue colours on the internal display. On a website I created some time back, I used a very pale blue colour, but I can't see that colour any more -- it appears almost (but not completely) white. A shadow from an overlapping window will show the colour. I have also checked with Digital Color Meter, and it gives the correct reading (#F0EEFF), but I can't see the colour.
I did notice that a few days back, I could suddenly see the colour, but after I woke up the computer from sleep, it disappeared. Restarting and resetting NVRAM did not help. I have even tried calibrating the display to no avail.
Please help!
Thanks,
Sid

I have had this exact issue and have been talking with Apple for a while now, even got my motherboard replaced, however, I used "sudo nvram boot-args="iog=0x0" as a way to keep my rMBP display off while the lid was open. Looks like 10.9.2 does not like this.
Here is the orginal video I posted documenting this issue.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpbJuOTbDN8
There are some updates in the descrption, but it looks like the only way to fix this for now it using sudo nvram -d boot-args then rebotting.
Really hope they addreass this in 10.9.3.

Non-opaque colours

Greetings,
This question is a bit of a sequel to this other thread. The last couple of days
I've been trying to find visual 'pleasing' way to show an 'alert' or 'alarm'
status for some real time processes. With the help of Camickr I started
off using a glass pane that simply draws a non-opaque red colour in
front of an entire JInternalFrame. I noticed a terrible, unacceptable
slowdown w.r.t. the drawing of those real time processes.
I experimented a bit more and I came to the conclusion that everything
done using non-opaque colours is unusable if you want to have anything
drawn fast (~100 times per second). It simply isn't fast enough. All I do
is redraw a couple of JPanels with those glass panes in front of them.
Using opaque colours or other tricks to show an 'alarm' status are fast
enough.More than fast enough, i.e. I've got plenty of time to show an
abundance of other information. It's just those non-opaque colours that
are a show stopper.
Has anyone else noticed this behaviour (MS Windows and Linux)?
Has anyone else found a workaround to speed things up considerably?
kind regards,
Jos

I don't use the javax.swing.Timer but I do usequite a few threads:
I've tried to compare the difference between using a
Swing Timer and and Thread for animation and I didn't
notice any difference in animation speed. (I just
prefered a Timer because I think its easier to
understand and control the timing of events.Yes I do use TImers, the java.util.Timer class and I schedule them with
the tasks that need to be run. Quite a lot of those tasks have nothing to
do with Swing, just the display stuff which can be en/disabled by the user.
I use quite a lot of those java.util.Timer objects because the device I'm
monitoring is quite a complex device with up to eight "sub devices".
The device itself can be monitored quite slowly: a thermometer, three
A/D colour components, a voltage value, eight bits of digital input and
a digital counter value. Those "sub devices" produce digital colour values:
either sRGB or Lab values as well as an "alarm status" values. Those
sub devices must be sampled quite often. My old view handled everything
quite well but I want the view to be more appealing to the users. Hence
this topic.
However, I have compared using a single Timer to animate 6
components at once, vs 6 Timers to animate a single component
each. A single Timer is almost twice as fast at repainting the
components animation as measured by the time it takes the
components to travel its vertical distance.I keep your remark in mind. Maybe I can "bundle" some of those "monitoring"
tasks using a single timer. The problem is that I monitor that device using
a serial line where everything has to be sequenced. I don't want any
congestion on that part (which has nothing to do with Swing so it renders
this thread (sic) totally off topic ;-)
[ snipped some code ]
So I guess I'm suggesting that you try to merge your multiple Threads
into a single Thread.I read you; the trouble is (see above) that those 'pulling from the device',
'pushing into the controller' thingies are totally independent events/tasks.
As the new view runs now, it is slowing down the entire machinery.
I never realized (I'm not a Swing guru) that all those visuals take up so
much time.
thanks a bunch for your reply and
kind regards,
Jos
ps. I'll play with your code and see what I can learn from it.

Can I wipe my hard drive without reinstalling Mountain Lion?

I'm running a digital version of Mountain Lion and my Mac is still running fine, but my hard drive is almost full. I'm an animation student, so I'm thinking of wiping it to get off all the junk that I don't really need for school, but I don't want to have to reinstall my OS. Is that possible?
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If you can't run Mavericks, you can't run Mountain Lion because they have the same hardware requirements.
Check that your computer is compatible with Mountain Lion/Mavericks.
To check the model number hold down the option/alt key, go to the Apple menu and select System Information.
MacBook Pro (Mid/Late 2007 or newer) model number 3,1 or higher
Your Mac needs:
OS X v10.6.8 or OS X Lion already installed
2 GB or more of memory (More is better - 4 GB minimum seems to be the consensus)
8 GB or more of available space
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