Sample Any Pixel or Extract a Full Palette
This image color picker works two ways at once, letting you extract colors from image content in whichever way fits what you need. Click anywhere on the uploaded image to act as an eyedropper tool online and pick color from picture online content precisely, sampling that exact pixel's color and showing it in HEX, RGB, and HSL. Separately, it automatically runs as an image color extractor the moment you upload, analyzing every pixel to surface the most common colors as a ready-made color palette from image content, no clicking required for that part. Unlike a color converter or palette generator that starts from a color you already know, this tool starts from a photo, logo, or screenshot and pulls the colors out of it directly.
How to Use This Image Color Picker
Drop an image onto the upload area, or click to browse, any image format is accepted. The extracted palette appears automatically below, adjust the Colors slider (4 to 16) if you want more or fewer swatches. To sample color from image content precisely, click directly on any point in the image, the exact pixel's HEX, RGB, and HSL values appear immediately with a copy button on each. Click any palette swatch or the color bar to copy that swatch's hex code instantly, or use Copy all to grab the whole palette as a comma-separated list.
How the Palette Extraction Works
To get hex code from image content quickly without a heavy clustering algorithm, this tool groups pixels into color buckets (rounding each RGB channel to the nearest step) and ranks buckets by how many pixels fall into them, then returns the most common buckets as the palette. This is fast and gives a genuinely representative set of dominant colors from photo content, but it's an approximation, not a perceptual clustering algorithm like k-means, two visually similar shades can land in the same bucket and get merged, and a color that's only a small fraction of the image may not make the cut even if it's visually noticeable.
HEX vs. RGB vs. HSL: Which Should I Copy?
All three describe the exact same color, extract colors from image content in whichever format matches where you're pasting it, there's no need to convert by hand afterward since every format is already computed and ready to copy.
| Format | Best For |
|---|---|
| HEX | CSS, design tools, and anywhere a compact single string is expected |
| RGB | CSS rgb()/rgba() functions, or code that needs separate red/green/blue channel values |
| HSL | Adjusting a color predictably, tweak lightness or saturation without recalculating RGB by hand |