by jfmatheu·Workflow
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Color Picker earns its spot in the superhive library for its painting-focused toolset, notably the exclusive visual widget for weight paint mode that controls the weight value on screen. Contextual Paint-tab settings and multiple picker types round it out for hand-painting, vertex and weight paint work in Blender.
Color Picker is a Blender addon aimed at painting workflows, covering texture paint (particularly hand-painting), the skinning process through weight paint, and vertex paint. It provides three picker types — SV, SV+H and HS — along with HSV and RGB graphic sliders, a color preview, and recent colors.
The SV pickers include a slicing feature: using the marked gizmos, you can slice the picker so it crops to the rectangular area you define within the cuts. For weight painting, the addon adds a visual widget that controls the weight value directly. Settings live in the addon preferences and also appear contextually in the 3D viewport's sidebar under the Paint tab, letting you set widget size per mode, picker type, keymaps, DPI for text, and whether widgets close when a hot-key is released.
Developed over Blender 2.90 and listed for Blender 4.1, 4.0 and 3.3, it's distributed under the GPL license by jfmatheu. Mac users should note a warning about incompatibility with Apple Silicon and Metal-based hardware. A demo video is available.
Color Picker is best for blender artists working in texture paint (especially hand-painting), vertex paint and weight paint who want on-canvas color pickers and a weight-value widget.
Color Picker is completely free to download and use.
Color Picker lists support for Blender 4.1, 4.0 and 3.3. It was originally developed over the Blender 2.90 release and, according to the developer, should also run in 2.83 LTS, with version 1.2 adding support for 2.93 along with some visual fixes. If you're on a version outside the listed range, check the changelog on the developer's page before installing, since compatibility notes and fixes are tracked there across releases.
Color Picker carries an important warning for Mac users: due to incompatibility with Macs using newer dedicated hardware and software such as Apple Silicon and Metal, the developer does not recommend acquiring the addon, as you may encounter drawing artifacts, install issues, or be unable to use it correctly. Version 1.1 did include a fix for a MacOS shader compile error. Given these mixed notes, Mac users should read the developer's page carefully and check the current status before proceeding.
Color Picker is released under the GPL license and is listed as free here, so for current pricing or licensing terms you should confirm on the developer's page directly. The addon is authored by jfmatheu, and its versions follow a three-digit X.X.X format where the third digit marks development alpha or beta builds, so you mainly track the first two digits starting from the initial 1.0 release version.
Color Picker exposes its settings through the addon preferences, and those same settings are also available in the 3D viewport's sidebar under the Paint tab, where they appear contextually for the active mode. From there you can control the widget size for each mode, the type of color picker (SV, SV+H or HS), the keymap for each mode and widget, DPI for text (useful on large screens), and whether a widget closes itself when you release its hot-key.
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