Christian Heilmann

Zoom and Pick – an in-browser tool to pick colours from images

Monday, January 28th, 2013 at 9:12 pm

Today I played again with drag and drop and HTML5 canvas. The result is a tool to pick colours from images and create the corresponding CSS/HTML called Zoom and Pick

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Here’s me explaining what it does in a screencast:

I will follow this up with smaller demos of parts of the whole on MDN soon. The biggest fun part was creating the zoom functionality.

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