====== colorname ======


===== About =====

colorname is both a plugin for [[http://gimp.org|The Gimp]] as well as a standalone tool that tries to assign a name to a color, using external color definitions and linear algebra.

For this it calculates the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidean_distance|euclidean distance]] between the currently selected color and all predefined colors, either in the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rgb|RGB]] or [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSV_color_space|HSV]] color space.

colorname is licensed under the [[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html|GPLv2]].

In case you stumble over any bugs, feel free to [[http://flyspray.foosel.net/?do=newtask&project=7|report them]].


===== Authors =====

colorname was written by

  * [[http://demod.org|Philippe 'demod' Neumann]] ([[colorname@demod.org]])
  * [[http://foosel.net|Gina 'foosel' Häußge]] ([[gina@foosel.net]])



===== Contributors =====

  * [[http://bzed.de|bzed]]
  * [[http://gimp-fr.org|gimp-fr]]

===== Download =====

  * {{filename>files/colorname-*.*[0-9].tar.gz&direct=1&sort=mtime}}

===== Usage =====

==== Standalone ====

Just start ''colorname.py''


==== Gimp plugin ====

Once installed you can find colorname in the GIMP under: "<Toolbox>/Xtns/Colorname"


===== Dependencies =====

colorname has been tested with
  * [[http://python.org|Python]] >= 2.4
  * [[http://www.pygtk.org/|PyGTK]] >= 2.10
  * [[http://gimp.org|The Gimp]] >= 2.2.0 (optional, only needed if you want to use colorname as a gimp plugin)
    * gimp-python
  * [[http://www.gnome.org/|GNOME]] >= 2.18 (optional)
    * python-gnome 2.18

===== Screenshot =====
{{gimp:colorname-0.1rc1.png |Screenshot}}
A screenshot of the gimp plugin (v0.1rc1), the color in question is the background color of this wiki (#7399A6)