AeroBlend - Carthago Software

Picking a color from the screen on Windows 8.1

AeroBlend versus Windows 8

Windows 8 has a Auto-Colorization built-in feature that at first look might do the same as AeroBlend but there are noticeable differences as expressed in the table below:

	AeroBlend	Windows 8 \ 8.1
Auto-Colorization	Yes	Yes
Based on desktop wallpaper	Yes	Yes
Based on active windows contents	Yes	No
Based on active application Icon	Yes	No
Based on desktop background color (no wallpaper)	Yes	No
Predominant color Get the Wallpaper	Yes¹	Yes
Average Color	Yes	Yes
Option to ignore dark \ light colors² Get the Wallpaper	Yes	No
Manual set color from desktop	Yes	No
Manual set color	Yes	No
Remembered set color per wallpaper	Yes	No
Multi-Monitor support	Yes	Yes
In a slideshow, AeroBlend can be set to consider only wallpaper from a single monitor if you have a a multi-monitor setup Obtain wallpaper color only from specific monitor	Yes	No
Windows 7 support	Yes	No \ Not applicable

¹ AeroBlend uses it's own algorithm to obtain the predominant color with results that may differ from the native Windows algorithm.
Obtaining the predominant color can also be done by setting the color manually. In wallpaper mode, AeroBlend will remember the manual set color and override the automatic color every time the same wallpaper is used.

² Only available on "Average color" mode

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