Image Color Picker Online Free

Pick the exact HEX or RGB color of any pixel from any image, directly in your browser. Hover for a magnified pixel preview, click to lock a color, see the dominant palette automatically extracted, and grab matching tints and shades for branding work.

Pick Colors from Image

Drag & drop your image or click to select - JPG, PNG, WebP supported

100% in-browser - your image is never uploaded.

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How to Pick Colors from an Image

1

Upload Your Image

Drag and drop or choose any image to pick colors from.

2

Hover & Click

Hover over the image and click anywhere to pick a color.

3

Copy Colors

See HEX, RGB, and HSL values and click any to copy to clipboard.

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Match Your Brand From Reference Photos

See a color you love in a photo and want to use it in your own design? Hover over the image, click anywhere, and copy the exact HEX, RGB, or HSL value to your clipboard.

Used by designers building mood boards, marketers matching color palettes, and developers picking accent shades for landing pages.

Why Use Our Image Color Picker?

Pixel-Perfect Picking

A floating circular magnifier follows your cursor showing a 9×9 pixel zoom of the area under it, pixelated rendering preserves the exact source colors so you can target individual pixels with confidence. The live HEX and RGB values update on every mouse move and lock when you click.

Auto Dominant Palette

On upload, the tool runs a quick frequency-based color quantization on the full-resolution image and surfaces the 10 most common colors as a clickable palette. Click any swatch to lock it as the base color and instantly generate matching tints and shades.

Tints & Shades

Selecting a color generates 10 tints (mixed with white at 9.1% steps) and 10 shades (mixed with black at 9.1% steps), a full lightness ladder from near-white through the base color to near-black. Hover any swatch for the hex code, click to copy. Perfect for design tokens and color systems.

Private, No Upload

The image is read into a hidden canvas locally on your device, never uploaded, never stored. Color extraction, magnifier preview, and clipboard copy all run in pure JavaScript on the HTML5 Canvas API. The tool works fully offline once the page is loaded.

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about picking colors from images.

How does the magnifier work?
The magnifier draws a 9×9 pixel slice of the image around the cursor onto a small canvas with pixelated rendering, then enlarges that canvas inside a circular div. The red center dot marks exactly which pixel the eyedropper is sampling, and the live HEX and RGB values match that center pixel.
What palette extraction algorithm is used?
A simple but fast frequency-based quantization. The image is sampled at adaptive intervals to keep performance reasonable on big files, each pixel is bucketed into ~30 quantized levels per channel, and the 10 most common buckets become the palette. It is not as sophisticated as Median Cut or k-means, but it runs in milliseconds and produces good results on most photos.
How are tints and shades calculated?
Tints linearly interpolate the base color toward white in 11 steps; shades linearly interpolate toward black in 11 steps. The math is plain RGB blending, `tint = base + (255 − base) × ratio`, `shade = base × (1 − ratio)`. Each row shows 10 graduations plus the base color, marked with a purple ring.
Does the tool upload my image?
No. The image is read into a hidden canvas using the browser File API and never sent to any server. All color sampling, palette extraction, and tint/shade math runs in JavaScript on your device. The page can even be used offline once it has loaded.
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