How to Pick an Exact Color From a Photo
"What color is that, exactly?" comes up constantly for designers matching a brand color from a reference photo, developers pulling a palette from a mockup screenshot, or anyone trying to recreate a color they saw somewhere without any way to describe it except pointing at it.
Sampling one specific pixel
- Open the Color Picker from Image and upload the photo.
- Click directly on the pixel whose color you want — the tool reads back its exact hex (and usually RGB) value.
Pulling a whole palette instead of one pixel
If you need several colors from a photo — the dominant tones in a landscape, the main colors in a product shot — rather than one exact spot, the Image Color Palette Extractor analyzes the whole image and returns a small set of representative colors, which is faster and more useful than manually sampling five different spots one at a time.
A tip on getting an accurate sample
Zoom in before you click, especially near edges or gradients — sampling a single pixel right on a boundary between two colors gives you a blended, inaccurate result. Pick a spot solidly inside a flat area of the color you actually want.