Patent ID: 8120616

Claim:
A method of selecting a color, comprising: receiving a selection of a screen pixel on a screen display of a computer system that includes a mouse, wherein the selection is a result of a user clicking a button on the mouse and dragging a mouse cursor across the screen display while holding down the mouse button; determining a first color value corresponding to a color of the screen pixel; determining a second color value corresponding to an active color setting; blending the first color value with the second color value to generate a third color value, wherein the first color value and the second color value are blended based on a constant blending factor; and storing the third color value as the active color setting, wherein the first color value and the second color value are blended based on the constant blending factor using a blending equation: CS ⁢ ⁢ C = ( A ⁢ ⁢ C ) ⁢ ( 1 R ) + ( OSC ) ⁢ ( R - 1 R ) wherein OSC represents the first color value, wherein AC represents the second color value, wherein R is greater than or equal to one and represents the constant blending factor, and wherein CSC represents the third color value.