Image Color Picker by Colorwheels

Generate beautiful color palettes instantly from your favorite image. With our free image color picker, you can easily extract colors and apply them to any design or project. Simply drop your photos, and let our color picker make a perfect color palette for you!

What is a color picker?

A color picker tool or color extraction tool is design software that detects the colors within pixels of a given image. It identifies the core and accent colors that can be found in any image, then displays its color code in different formats based on your needs.

How to extract colors from an image using a color picker?

Color picker helps lessen any creatives' workload, but how to use it? Simply drag and drop to upload the image of your choice, and let our free color picker tool instantly create a five-panel color palette for you. You can even adjust the color palette by choosing your preferred color moods, such as colorful, bright, muted, deep, or dark with just one click.

Voilà, an instant color palette is now at your disposal. Click on the colors to copy its hex code easily, or download your color palette as an image.

Ways to use color palettes generated from an image

When working on content creation, you often use different visual elements like text, shape or graphics to support your message. It is difficult to match the colors of all visual elements harmoniously, especially if you need to contain a consistent brand color for branding and marketing assets.

Using an image color picker allows you to perfectly recreate the same aesthetic from your favorite image or even comply with consistent brand guidelines easily. You can use it to extract brand colors online at any time, so you don’t have to memorize all the color values to maintain brand consistency. Simply copy the color hex codes from the generated color palettes from an image, then apply them directly to the shapes, text, or any visual elements in your editor.

Photos as source of color inspiration

Colors bring images to life, but an idea is needed to bring them to life in the first place. Consider using photos as the source of color inspiration for art and creativity. Once you find photos that catch your eyes or fit your topic, simply use our image color picker to extract colors and generate your own color palette.

You can start with exploring our mother nature to get color inspiration, such as seasonal changes, botanical gardens, animals, mountains, the great ocean, and more! Many species of plants and animals have their own unique colors. Take the bright red hibiscus flower as an example, a strong complementary contrast to its green leaves creates an energy of passion, growth and confidence.

What are RGB, RYB, CMYK, and hex codes?

When you are deciding on colors or using any color tools for creative projects, you probably see these terms frequently. But what do they stand for?

RGB is a color model used for onscreen purposes such as screens and monitors. The primary colors of the RGB color wheel are red, green and blue.
RYB is another color model used in painting, physical art and design. Different from the RGB color wheel, it follows real-world physics with primary colors of red, yellow and blue.
The CMYK color model has primary colors of cyan, magenta, yellow and black, which are the main colors used in color printing. It is often used by those working in offset and digital printing because it transfers more accurately from screen to print.
Hex code refers to the color codes or values used for web display. It is closely related to the RGB color model due to the use of hexadecimal values that browsers read and produce on-screen.