color chooser thing

does anyone know wut the color thing that has a all the colors on the left, a choice of colors on the right, and custom colors on the bottom is called? does anyone know how to get it running? even through cmd or run would be ok
i know how to get it to work through other programs where u choose colors but not by itself. when i open it with a simple program its window is titled "Color.".\ any help is appreciated.

Um...I have NO idea what you're talking about, but hey, I'm a nice guy, and it sounds like you need some help. Could it be you just need to open PS, and go to Windows > Show color?

Or, maybe this'll help

This site was listed in this post made by deker a while back. It's a really handy color scheme generator for web designs. What it really does is asks you to pick a color you like (Not necessarily your sites dominant color) with pretty easy to use RGB sliders, then generates, I think 6 or so colors that go really well with that one. It gives you all the numbers you need, so you can like, enter them in fireworks, or something similar. I usually do it the laziest way possible, and screenshot the page, to paste it into PS or whatever I'm using and just eyedrop them.

Maybe i just made an ass of myself by posting this, or maybe it'll help. Hopefully it does.

Thanks that was helpful. I will use that if i never find a way to use the other one. Here is a picture of it.pic

Just to clear things up, I'm trying to find a way to run this without any other program. I know Photoshop has one, but that's not what I'm aiming for. If anyone knows how to open it by either the folder it's in, through command prompt, or through start>run, then please help me.

My guess (now this is a guess.) is that is an object, like maybe a com object, that cannot be run by itself. What do you need to run it for? If you are trying to run it by itself, what use is it?

But that's Photoshop's color chooser thing, not Windows...

Is it just me or has mo0chan not made a post longer than 1 line in a while? lol

-Edit-

I take that back.

That is a generic color picker from anything you can adjust color in on windows.

Yeah, photoshop's various methods of color selection are far easier to use than windows' chooser. And frankly, they're better. Actually, thats not specifically a PC thing. I've recently become a born again Mac user, and their standard color selection method isn't that much better than pc's, although it is prettier.

Um...I guess, because, hey we're all issuing suggestions here, this'd be a good time to tell you about PS's bazillions of prefab swatches. Sometimes I find it a little easier/ more creative to just pick a swatch, and go from there, whether you're making a page, graphic, or stand alone image.

To get to them, you'll click the right facing carrot (arrow) in the top right of your swatches box (Window > Show swatches) And click any or all of the lists beginning with ANPA. Select append and it'll tack those, and whatever others you choose onto the bottom of your swatch menu. Does anyone offhand know just how many it allows you to have in your menu? I know it's a ton, but ultimately, there's a limit.

Also, you can save custom colors pretty easily (In case you didn't already know) by getting your color, and paint bucketing it into the gray (empty) boxes in your swatch menu. You'll find them past the last swatch, and if you have more than the default swatches shown, and don't see any empty space, just expand your swatch pallette (window).

Yeah, color can sometimes be hard to deal with, specifically finding the right colors, but photoshop makes it pretty easy for you.

I guess I am kinda curious, why exactly do you want to make that function run on it's own? It's not better than photoshop's color selectors. And frankly, I don't know how it'll help anything else.

Is the problem that it isn't there anymore? like, when you change your system colors, it doesn't pop up? Because if that's the case, you could have a bigger problem on your hands.

I hope that's not it, cuz that'd SUCK

No, I just wanted a very simple color chooser. As for Photoshop's color chooser, it is too complicated for this. I also want u guys to know that my computer is a little slow so it's annoying to run PS when I really don't need it for a long time.
"why exactly do you want to make that function run on it's own?"
Because it's nice and simple. I needed it because I was changing RGB colors in notepad and needed to see how they all match together. It's a little hard to explain. The closest example I could give is changing hex numbers in an html file and refreshing the site constantly to see how the new colors match. Nevermind, though, this wasn't exactly a life-death situation. =D