Find the colour of a pixel in an image or video and generate a beautiful colour palette. Drag and drop an image or video file to get started. All image and video formats are supported. Mouse over the image to find the colour of any pixel. You can turn on zoom to help you pick a specific pixel. A colour scheme will be automatically generated for you. You can select how many colours you want it to have (up to 8).
Images are made up of a grid of pixels. These are the smallest component parts in an image and represent a single colour. When shown together they are small enough to blend together.
Colours are composed of red, green and blue channels. Each of these can have any value from 0 to 255. The three components merge together to create any colour you want. RGB is the most commonly used format for colours.
The red, blue and green components can be merged together into a hex code. These are commonly used in CSS and many other technologies as a succinct way of writing any colour. In these the parts are encoded into two digits hexadecimal number and preceded by a # sign. For example, if you have a colour made up of 255 red, 100 green and 150 blue the hexcode would be #FF6496.
The alpha channel represents the transparency of the pixel. If a pixel has a value of 255 you will not be able to see anything through it, whereas if it has a value of 0 you will see any background clearly. Alpha transparency support is dependent on the file format used. PNG supports varying levels on transparency on each pixel and GIF allows some pixels to be fully transparent.
The hsl gives a colour as a combination of hue, saturation and lightness. The hue tells you which colour you want by its location on a colour wheel, the saturation tells you how intense the colour is and the lightness tells you how light or dark it is. They are particularly useful if you want to find colours that go well together.
The hwb scheme creates colours by adding various amounts of white and black to a hue. Compared to other methods the hwb colour scheme is not as useful as it is not supported by as many technologies.