I am a complete newbie at Mac. It so happened that now I'm working on it. I have an weird issue - I can't find how to start default Color Picker?
The keyboard combination shortcut of Win+Shift+C will activate Color Picker regardless of what other application(s) are running.
While the built-in macOS Digital Color Meter is a helpful tool for graphic designers and web developers, you have several third-party color pickers to choose from as well. Take a look at this list of the five best color pickers for macOS to help you decide which to use.
command shift C is the keyboard command to open the colour palette, it is not the command to change colour.
You can turn the color picker into an application by following the guide here:
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20060408050920158
From the guide:
Simply fire up AppleScript (Applications -> AppleScript Editor) and enter this text:
choose color
Now, save it as an application (File -> Save As, and set the File Format pop-up to Application), and you're done
You can call up the color picker from any Cocoa application (TextEdit, Mail, Keynote, Pages, etc.) by hitting Shift-Command-C
The following article explains more about using Mac OS's Color Picker.
http://www.macworld.com/article/46746/2005/09/colorpickersecrets.html
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