You see a photo with colors that just work: a sunset, a room, a poster, an outfit. Copying that feel into your own design means knowing the exact shades. A color palette extractor reads the image and gives you its main colors as codes you can paste anywhere. Here is how to get a color palette from an image free, with no app and no account.
Get the colors from an image in three steps
- Open the free Color Palette Extractor and upload a JPG, PNG, WebP or HEIC photo, up to 25MB.
- Set Number of Colors anywhere from 3 to 10. Six is the default.
- Pick how it looks: a bottom strip of swatches under your photo, or a standalone card with just the palette. Click any HEX code to copy it, or download the image.
Each color comes with its HEX code and the share of the photo it covers, so you can tell the main color from the accents.
How many colors to pull
- 3 to 4 for a simple brand or a slide deck: one main color, one or two supports, one accent.
- 5 to 6 for a mood board or an Instagram grid that should feel consistent.
- 8 to 10 for a busy photo, such as a market or a festival, where you want to see every shade before you choose.
What to do with the HEX codes
- Canva, Figma or PowerPoint: paste the code into the color picker to match text, shapes and backgrounds to the photo.
- A website or shop theme: use the most common color for the background and the smallest, boldest one for buttons.
- Instagram stories and highlight covers: keep two or three codes and reuse them, so your profile looks planned.
- Outfits and rooms: a palette from a photo you love is a quick shopping list for fabric or paint.
Tips for a better palette
- Crop first if the photo has a big area you do not care about, like a white wall or the sky. The free crop tool does it in seconds.
- A photo with soft, even light gives truer colors than one with harsh shadows.
- Screenshots and heavily filtered photos give the filter's colors, not the scene's.
Common questions
Is it free? Yes, it runs in your browser with no account, and your photo is not kept on our servers.
Does it give RGB too? The card shows HEX codes, which every design app accepts and can convert to RGB.
Want a picture worth pulling colors from? Copy a free prompt from the Cartoon & Art Styles collection, or download Trendy AI Lab and make AI art in the app with a plan.
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