Magnify while eyedropping — This option is on by default and allows the user to see a magnified area while eyedropping. The pixel that is being selected will appear in the magnifier window with a black square around it.

Use Cross Hair cursor — The standard windows cross hair cursor can be used in lieu of the eyedropper to select colors.

Relative position measurements — If you press the Control key while eyedropping the coordinates will be set to zero (0,0). When you drag the mouse to a new location the coordinates values will be relative to the point where you pressed control. This is very useful if you want to measure how many pixels a certain object is. Note that if you get a reading of 8,8 the area you just measured is really 9,9 because the zero row and column are included.

Detect WebSafe color — With this option enabled, Color Cop will indicate if the color selected by the eyedropper is WebSafe or not.

Allow Multiple Instances — This is an option which allows the user to restrict only one instance of Color Cop from running at once, or allow multiple copies to run.

Convert RGB Decimal values to HTML Hexadecimal — Depending on the Mode, the Red, Green, and Blue values are converted to the hex color code. These values can be typed in manually or selected with the eyedropper. If the user spins the mouse wheel while the focus is on one of the controls it will increment or decrement depending on the direction. Holding CONTROL will +/- by 5. Holding SHIFT will +/- by 2.

Custom Color Picker — This is the windows common color picker dialog. It can be used to slightly alter the current color. Double-clicking on the color preview window will bring up this dialog. The 16 custom color slots in the dialog are remembered from session to session.

Eyedropper — This control can be dragged around the screen to select any color. If you want to ease the selection, use the Magnifier first.

Persistent Settings — This feature saves your settings to ColorCop.dat. These settings are reloaded the next time you start the application. If you delete ColorCop.dat the settings will be lost. Color Cop will remember screen position, last color, color history, mode, sampling rate, etc.

Convert Hexadecimal to RGB Decimal values — If Color Cop is in HTML or Delphi mode. Hex codes can be pasted/typed in and the the Color and RGB values will be given. This is not available for Visual Basic, Visual C++ or PowerBuilder modes.

Random Color Generator — Generates a Random color. Control+Z is the Hotkey.

Reverse Color Option — Selecting this option will reverse the current color. Black will become white, etc.

Magnifier with 1x-16x zoom — For areas of the screen with small icons or lots of colors, the Magnifier can be used to enlarge the area and then select colors. The magnification level can be changed by spinning the mouse wheel while magnifying or by clicking on the plus and minus buttons which are located to the right of the magnifier.

3 by 3 and 5 by 5 average sampling — This feature allows the eyedropper to select an average of a 3 by 3 or a 5 by 5 pixel matrix.

Snap to WebSafe — Some designers are forced to use the 216 color websafe palette. When this option is enabled, only websafe colors can be selected. If a color is selected and it is not websafe, it will be converted to the nearest websafe color. Websafe colors have RGB decimal values which are multiples of 51 or zero.(0, 51, 102, 153, 204, and 255).

Minimize to systray — When this option is checked, Color Cop will be minimized to the system tray rather than the taskbar.

HTML, Delphi, Visual Basic, Visual C++, Clarion and Powerbuilder Hex color support — There are many Hex modes to choose from.

Mouse wheel support — The mouse wheel can be used to increment or decrement the Red, Green, or Blue values. It will also allow the user to zoom while magnifying.

EasyMove — This option allows the user to move the window by left clicking and dragging anywhere in the Color Cop window.

Upper and Lower case Hex — Some people prefer their hex in uppercase and some in lowercase.

Collapseable dialog — This feature allows the application to compact itself to allow more screen area to select colors from.

Color History — This feature remembers the last 7 colors selected. Colors can be pushed into the color history by right clicking while eyedropping.

Complementary Color Palette — The color palette uses the HSL color model to generate 42 colors that complement the selected color. Colors in this pallete can be selected by left clicking.

Right Click in the Color Cop window to get a pop up menu.

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