Image Color Picker

Free Image Color Picker (Get HEX from Image)

This free online image color picker lets you grab the exact color of any pixel in a photo or screenshot. Upload an image, move your cursor to preview colors, then click (or tap on mobile) to lock a color and read its HEX and RGB values with one-tap copy buttons. It’s free and 100% private — your image is opened straight in your browser and never uploaded.

How to use

1. Upload an image by dragging it in or clicking to choose a file.
2. Move over the image to preview the color under your cursor in real time.
3. Click or tap any spot to lock that color and see its HEX and RGB.
4. Press Copy HEX or Copy RGB to copy the value to your clipboard.
5. Reuse any swatch from the Recently picked list by clicking it to copy again.

Why pick colors from an image

Getting the exact color out of an image is one of those small jobs that comes up constantly in design and development. Maybe you found a brand color in a logo, a shade in a photo, or a button color in a screenshot, and you need its HEX code to reuse it in CSS, a graphics app or a presentation. Eyeballing a color almost never matches — a color picker reads the true pixel value so your work stays consistent.

It’s especially handy for matching brand colors, building a palette from a mood board, recreating a gradient, or sampling skin and sky tones from a photo. Designers use it to keep a website’s colors aligned with a reference image; developers use it to pull a HEX value directly into their stylesheet. Because this tool reads pixels with the HTML canvas, the color it reports is the same data your screen displays, so what you pick is what you get.

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