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A photograph or illustration often holds a small collection of colors worth carrying into another design. Color Palette from Image summarizes that collection with representative swatches. Choose a local picture, set a maximum color count and see the approximate source locations beside the extracted palette.
Open Color Palette from Image. JavaScript powers the workspace; the full guide is available below.
UNDERSTAND THE RESULT
The image is reduced to a bounded sample with a longest side of 160 pixels. Similar samples are grouped, and each swatch averages its group. The numbered point is the closest sampled location, not a promise that the exact swatch exists at that pixel.
Choose a maximum from 3 to 8. A flat image may contain only one useful color, and Merge similar colors can reduce the result further. The tool does not invent extra colors to fill the requested number.
Pixels below 10% opacity are excluded. Other samples are weighted by alpha without compositing onto white. Returned swatches are opaque representatives; percentages are sampled cluster weights, not exact full-resolution area measurements.
HOW TO USE IT
A WORKED EXAMPLE
A picture containing only opaque red and blue can return two swatches even when Maximum colors is five. A wholly transparent picture returns no usable samples. These outcomes describe the input instead of filling empty slots with invented colors.
EVERYDAY USES
Use the extracted shades as a starting point for a page that accompanies the image. Check text/background contrast separately before using the palette in an interface.
Extract a compact palette from a mood image and copy the list into a brief. For an exact individual pixel, use Image Color Picker instead.
LOCAL WORKSPACE
The tool processes color values and your selected image locally. It does not upload the input to a processing server or save it in browser storage. Leaving or reloading the page clears the working state. Copying places the selected result on your clipboard; sharing sends only the page address without your working values.
These tools describe sRGB colors. Browser decoding, color management and the display can affect what you see; they are not an ICC proofing workflow or a print-color guarantee. Read the site privacy policy for information about the surrounding website.
KEEP IT NEARBY
Press Ctrl + D on Windows or Command + D on Mac to bookmark this page. Your browser may also offer Create shortcut or Add to Home Screen. Shortcuts open the tool; they do not include your colors or images.
QUESTIONS, ANSWERED
No. File validation, decoding, sampling and grouping happen locally in this tool. The image is not saved in browser storage.
A small detail can disappear during downsampling, and nearby shades may share a group. Try disabling Merge similar colors or increasing the maximum count; exact pixel sampling belongs in Image Color Picker.
Swatches are averages of groups. Markers locate the nearest available sample, mapped back to approximate original-image coordinates. They are guides to the source, not exact pixel matches.
Still JPEG, PNG and WebP within the stated bounds. Animated PNG/WebP, GIF, SVG and HEIC are not included. Fully transparent or nearly transparent images may yield no usable samples.
Representative colors summarize clusters in a reduced sample of the image. They need not equal a particular original pixel; use Image Color Picker when you need that exact pixel.
They approximate the share of sampled, alpha-weighted image color assigned to each cluster. They are not a full-resolution count of every pixel or a measure of visual importance.
A picture may contain too few distinct visible colors. Similar clusters can merge, and nearly transparent pixels are excluded rather than turned into artificial palette entries.
REFERENCES
ANOTHER SMALL STEP
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