Image Color Picker
Click anywhere on an image to get its exact color, and see the image's dominant colors as a palette. Runs entirely in your browser.
Click to upload or drag and drop
Select an image file
How picking works
The image is drawn onto a canvas, scaled down to at most 600 pixels wide if it is larger, and clicking reads the single pixel under your pointer. You get its hex code (for example #1E90FF) and the matching rgb() value. Because large images are scaled down first, the color comes from the resized copy, so it can differ slightly from the same spot in the original file.
Limits
There is no magnifier or averaging: photos with noise or JPEG artifacts can give slightly different values for neighboring pixels, so click a few points in a flat area. Files over 50 MB are rejected. To turn a picked code into other formats such as HSL, paste it into the Color Picker & Converter.
Frequently asked questions
How is the dominant color palette calculated?
Every pixel is grouped into a bucket by rounding its red, green and blue values to steps of 32, and the six most common buckets are shown. The swatches are therefore rounded approximations of the image's main colors, not exact colors found in the file.