Extract Color Palette From Image – Free Online Tool

Upload a JPG or PNG to extract its six most prominent colors.

Drag and drop your image or click to browse · JPG or PNG · max 20 MB

Dominant Colors

Drag points to pick

Private by design. Your image is processed entirely in your browser. Nothing is uploaded to a server.

Choose another image

What a Color Palette from Image Tool Is Actually For

You found the photo. Maybe it’s a weathered blue door you photographed on vacation or a client’s product under a studio light. You want to use those exact colors in your design file, but you need the hex codes.

The old way meant opening Photoshop, zooming to 400%, and using the eyedropper tool to select pixels one at a time while writing the codes on a sticky note.

The newer way involves signing up for an account, uploading your file to someone’s server, and hoping the free tier provides enough colors.

We built the ColorWikia extractor because neither of those felt reasonable for a job that takes six seconds.

With this extractor tool, you can extract the six most prominent colors from your image. Or, simply drag a marker over the image to get the hex code of the color you see.

Here’s what the tool does:

• Six-color extraction: Colors are pulled from the entire image rather than from one pixel, ensuring an accurate palette.
• Draggable sample points: Move the points around the image to specific color.
• The palette appears when the file loads. No render queue, no processing spinner.
• One-click reset. The “Choose another image” button clears everything so you can run the next photo.
• Works on mobiles as well..

Six gives you a base tone, two supporting colors, and three accents, which is roughly how designers build color systems anyway.

What You Get, and What It Costs

Nothing. No account, no credit system, no upgrade prompt after your third image.

Drop in a JPG or PNG and you get the six most dominant colors in that image, listed under Dominant Colors below the preview.

Your Image Never Reaches Our Server

Most tools in this category quietly send your file across the Internet. It lands on a company’s server, where it is processed and often stored.

The ColorWikia color picker from the image runs entirely inside your browser. Your device does the computing. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is stored, and nobody here sees the file. Close the tab and it’s gone from every system except your own.

This matters more than it sounds if you work with:

• Unreleased product photography under NDA
• Client assets covered by a confidentiality agreement
• Personal photos you’d rather not park on a stranger’s server
• Internal brand material ahead of a public launch

Put plainly: if we can’t see your image, we can’t leak it, sell it, or hand it to anyone else. That’s the whole argument.

Supported Files and Size Limits

JPG and PNG, up to 20 MB.

JPG covers almost anything off a camera or phone. PNG is the better choice for logos, screenshots, and illustrations, and transparent areas won’t contribute a color to your palette.

How To Extract a Color Palette From an Image

1. Upload your file. Drag a JPG or PNG into the box, or click to browse.
2. Read the six dominant colors that appear below the preview.
3. (Optional) Drag the sample points to shift the palette toward specific parts of the photo.
4. Copy the codes from the swatches or download a palette image.
5. Hit “Choose another image” to start over.

Final Thoughts: Extracting Color From an Image

This process used to be so tedious that people skipped it and picked colors from memory instead. Now, it’s as easy as uploading and copying.

Two things determine whether you get a useful palette. First, feed it a clean, well-lit source file. Second, drag the sample points onto the parts of the photo you actually care about. Most people do the first but forget the second.

Drop an image in above to see what’s in there.