Free Image Color Picker

The Image Color Picker is a free online tool that extracts colors from any image, providing exact HEX, RGB, and HSL color values.

Yes, it is completely free with no registration required. All processing happens client-side in your browser.

The Image Color Picker provides color values in HEX, RGB, and HSL formats, ready to use in your design or code projects.

Absolutely. The Image Color Picker processes everything client-side in your browser. No data is uploaded to or stored on any server. Your content remains private on your device at all times.

Yes, the Image Color Picker is fully responsive and works on smartphones and tablets. You can use it on any device with a modern web browser -- no app download required.

No account or registration is needed. Simply open the Image Color Picker in your browser and start using it immediately. There are no sign-up walls or usage restrictions.

Simply enter your input in the provided field, adjust any settings to your preference, and the tool will process it instantly. You can then copy the result to your clipboard or download it.

The Image Color Picker works in all modern browsers including Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, and Opera. For the best experience, use the latest version of your preferred browser.

They describe the same color in different notations. HEX is the six-digit #RRGGBB form used in CSS and most web tools, where each pair is a red, green, or blue channel in base-16. RGB writes those same three channels as numbers from 0 to 255, matching how screens actually emit light. HSL instead uses hue (an angle on the color wheel), saturation, and lightness, which makes it far easier to nudge a shade lighter or more vivid without guessing at channel math. None is more "correct" — you pick the one your context expects: HEX for stylesheets, RGB for many design apps, HSL when you are adjusting tones by hand. Click any point on your image here and the picker shows all three at once, so you can copy whichever your project needs.

CMYK describes cyan, magenta, yellow, and black ink percentages for printing, but your image lives in the RGB world of screens, which can show colors that ink simply cannot reproduce. Converting RGB to CMYK requires a mathematical formula, and this tool uses a standard device-independent one — but true print color also depends on the press, paper, and the ICC profile your printer uses. That means the CMYK numbers here are a reliable starting point, not a guaranteed match for what rolls off a specific press. For exact print work, treat these values as a reference and confirm against a proof or your printer's profile. The picker also reports CIE LAB, a perceptually uniform model that is useful when you need to measure how different two colors truly look. Click a color to see every format together.

Beyond single clicks, the picker scans the whole image and groups similar pixels together to surface the handful of colors that cover the most area, then shows roughly what percentage of the picture each one occupies. This is the fastest way to reverse-engineer a palette from a photo, a competitor screenshot, or a mood board without sampling dozens of points by hand. Because very large images are scaled down to a maximum of 2000 pixels on the longest side before analysis, the breakdown stays fast even on big files while still reflecting the real spread of color. From there you can save the colors you want into a working palette. Upload an image above and the dominant colors appear automatically alongside their percentage share.

The eyedropper lets you sample a color from anywhere on your screen, not just inside the uploaded image — handy for grabbing a shade from another window or a web page beside the tool. It relies on the browser's native EyeDropper API, which is currently supported in Chrome and Edge but not in every browser, so the tool only shows the button when it detects that your browser can run it. If you do not see it, your browser lacks that capability, and you can still pick any color by clicking directly on a loaded image, which works everywhere. When the button is available, click it, then click any pixel on screen to capture that exact color. Open the tool in Chrome or Edge to get the on-screen eyedropper option.

After you pick a color, the tool can generate color-harmony schemes from it using standard color-wheel relationships: complementary (the opposite hue), analogous (neighbors), triadic, split-complementary, tetradic, and a range of shades. These give you a coherent starting set of colors that work together, instead of guessing which tones pair well. You can save the ones you like to a working palette, rename them, and then export the whole set as CSS custom properties, SCSS variables, a JSON file, or a Tailwind config block to drop straight into a codebase — or as a PNG swatch sheet to attach to a brief. The tool also suggests the nearest standard CSS named color for each pick, useful when a spec asks for a name rather than a code. Pick a base color above to generate harmonies instantly.