Select Color In Image
Click anywhere on an uploaded image to get the exact HEX, RGB, and HSL colour values
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About Select Color In Image
Pick Any Colour Straight from an Image
You spot the perfect shade of teal in a photograph, but how do you capture its exact hex code? Eyeballing it in a colour picker will get you close, but close is not good enough when brand consistency matters. Our Select Color in Image tool turns any uploaded photograph or graphic into an interactive colour palette. Click anywhere on the image and instantly get the precise hex, RGB, and HSL values of the pixel under your cursor.
Why Colour Sampling from Images Is Essential
Design does not happen in a vacuum. Inspiration comes from nature, architecture, fashion, and art. A designer might fall in love with the golden hour lighting in a photograph and want to replicate that warmth in a website gradient. A marketer might need to match a banner ad to the exact blue of a partner brand's logo, and the only asset available is a JPEG screenshot. In both cases, sampling colours directly from an image is the fastest path to accuracy.
Professional tools like Adobe Illustrator include an eyedropper, but opening a heavyweight application just to sample one colour is overkill. This browser-based tool loads in seconds, requires no installation, and works on any device with a screen and a browser.
How It Works
Upload any image, JPEG, PNG, WebP, or even a screenshot dragged straight from your clipboard. The image appears in the tool's canvas area. Move your cursor over the image and a magnified preview follows along, showing the pixels around your pointer at high zoom. Click to lock in a colour. The tool immediately displays the hex code, RGB values, HSL values, and a large swatch preview of the selected colour.
You can sample multiple colours from the same image, building a palette as you go. Each sampled colour is saved in a row below the image, complete with all its value formats and a one-click copy button for each. This makes it effortless to extract an entire colour scheme from a photograph, a competitor's website screenshot, or a piece of artwork you admire.
Designers and Developers Both Win
UI designers use the tool to pull colours from mockup screenshots when the original Figma file is unavailable. Front-end developers grab hex codes from design comps to paste directly into CSS. Illustrators sample reference photo colours to build realistic palettes for digital paintings. Interior decorators photograph a fabric swatch, upload it, and get the exact colour values to search for matching paint from hardware store catalogues that accept hex or RGB input.
Getting Accurate Results
The colour you see on screen depends on your monitor's calibration, colour profile, and ambient lighting. The tool reports the exact pixel value stored in the image file, which is the most reliable reference point available. If colour accuracy is critical for print work, pair the sampled values with a calibrated monitor and verify against a physical swatch book.
For web use, the sampled hex code is exactly what you need. Browsers render hex and RGB values consistently, so the colour your visitors see will match the colour you sampled, assuming their monitors are not wildly miscalibrated.
No Uploads, No Tracking
The image is loaded into an HTML5 canvas entirely within your browser. Pixel data is read locally using the Canvas API's getImageData method. Nothing is uploaded, stored, or tracked. Your images and your colour choices remain completely private. Keep the select color in image tool bookmarked and reach for it whenever inspiration strikes.