Morning Gang:

Okay, talkin' about cool conversion I have to put my 2-cents into the pot
along with Katrina's cool discovery.

For several months I have been using a freeware RGB 2 HTML program I DL'd
from the Net which is absolutley too cool and super fast!! It is called "RGB
2 HTML" and is in German here:

http://www.online.de/home/mnolte/download.html#rgb2html

Don't let the German language site throw ya ... you can DL the freeware no
prob. It is a tiny 105 KB program that has no language barriers, nor is it a
temp trial. It is the full Monte and is a wiz at conversion.

The program itself gives you a 4" x 4" pop-up (I have the icon on my
desktop) which has a color viewer window at top, three sliders in the center
for R - G - B which show the numbers for each to the right, and has the HTML
code at the bottom.

Let's say you want to convert #8E236B to RGB ... you simply open this
program and move the sliders for each respective 2-digit sequence and watch
the HTML code in the bottom window move until you have your first set of
numbers for the "R" factor. Repeat for each set until VOILA ... you have the
RGB. It's that simple going RGB to HTML, too.

The learning curve on this thing is like ... preschool level!! So, it only
took me a week to figure out!! (Oops, did I say that?? haha)

I use this on literally every graphic I create that uses color. It is
wonderful at working with PSP4 or GIF Movie Gear to select colors not shown
on the pallets.

Even when I want to create custom colors w/o numbers or code I slide the
selectors around and watch the color window and play until I "create" a
color I want to use, then either get the HTML code or RGB numbers. I then
pop them into PSP4 and dup the custom color, make the graphic (or whatever),
and add the custom color to my project spec sheet for future reference.

Try it ... I tell ya you'll wonder what you did w/o it!! Even if you don't
like it .. being a 105 KB file it'll DL in seconds and delete easy enough.

Starr
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-----Original Message-----
From: Katrina Lobbia <klobbia(at)hotmail.com>
To: hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org <hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org>
Date: Tuesday, May 18, 1999 10:47 PM
Subject: RBG to hex colour


>I don't know if anyones pointed this out before or not, but I was taught
>this tasty little tidbit the other day, and thought I'd share it to those
of
>you that don't know about it.
>
>This is for people with PCs, I do like macs, but I don't know of an easy
way
>for mac owners, sorry.
>
>But for those of you with PCs, theres a nifty shortcut to calculate the
>hexidecimal code for any colour.
>If you look up the RBG numbers (like by double clicking on the colour in
>photoshop) then open up the calculator that is installed with pretty much
>every version of windows.
>In the calculator, click on the "View" option, then select "Scientific".
>
>This should enlarge the calculator, giving you lots of fun options. Enter
in
>the R number listed for the colour you want to convert while the radio
>button is selected for Dec selected.
>after you enter in the number, click on the radio spot next to "Hex" and
>this should convert it to the hexidecimal code for that shade of red. those
>2 characters will be the fist 2 in your hex code, Green will be the middle
>two, and blue the third two.
>
>nice easy, and no piece of paper and pencil required.
>I've found this to be very useful, and thought you all might enjoy it as
>well.
>
>Katrina :o)
>
>
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