Fiesta de la Vida

Okay, it was back in the Photoshop sandbox with me. New to javascript, I was chomping at the bit to try this technique first seen on my friend Corey’s blog. I thought it was so unbelievably cool that I spent the better part of a Saturday night tweaking and uploading, and tweaking some more.

The original script is available here from the good folk at Nihilogic Labs. If you love to work in Photoshop, the possibilities are limitless for what you can reveal behind the original image. Clicking on the “Fiesta” image below will take you to my web page so you can mouse around with the x-ray effect yourself. It’s fun, so get out there and play.

Fiesta de la Vida logo with an x-ray effect applied using javascript

On a Mac, there’s a little-known utility that’s installed by default called “Digital Color Meter”, which will show you the current color (in hex, or an RGB tuple) of anything on the screen under the mouse cursor. A nice built-in option for anyone using OS X in addition to the fabulous FF add-on Colorzilla.

In the second screen shot, you’ll see the value of Red, Green and Blue for the light yellow swatch I had the cursor hovering over. Just combine each of the three numbers to get your six digit Hex number. No need to dig around in the CSS or HTML on a page to find the number value of a color you like, and may want to test out in your own digital design.

Locating Mac's Digital Color Meter App on your Computer

RGB Hex Value Demo using Mac's Digital Color Meter App