# Image Color Picker

An image color picker: click any pixel for its HEX, RGB, HSL and CMYK, and get the palette the picture is mostly made of. Nothing is uploaded.

Canonical page: https://filetity.com/image-color-picker

## Capabilities

- Free: Yes, with no watermark and no page limit.
- Account required: No. There is no account system.
- Processed on device: Yes. The file is read by your browser and never uploaded. There is no server to send it to.
- Formats: PNG, JPG, WebP, GIF, BMP and anything else your browser can open as an image. Out as HEX, RGB, HSL or CMYK text.
- Limits: Colours are read as plain sRGB bytes. An image carrying a wide gamut profile will read as the numbers in the file, not as the colour a colour managed application would show. No screen-wide eyedropper: this reads a picture, not other windows.
- Mobile: Yes, on any modern mobile browser. Large files are limited by the memory the phone gives the browser.
- Offline: Yes, once the page has loaded. The tool keeps working with no network connection.

## Questions

### Why is the palette not just the six colours I can see?

Because a photograph has thousands. The tool groups nearby colours together, keeps the six largest groups and shows the average of the real pixels in each, which is why a picture of grass gives one green rather than four hundred. A logo with flat colour gives back exactly the flat colours, because each group holds only one.

### Why does the hex not match what my design tool shows?

Usually a colour profile. This reads the raw bytes in the file, which is what a browser and CSS use, while a photo editor may be showing you the same pixel converted through a wide gamut profile. Neither is wrong. For anything going into CSS, the number here is the one that will appear on screen.

### Can I pick a colour from anywhere on my screen?

Not from this page, because a web page cannot read the rest of your screen, which is a good thing. Take a screenshot and drop it here instead. Chrome and Edge also have a built-in EyeDropper for the browser window itself.

### Is the picture uploaded?

No. It is read in this tab and never sent anywhere, which matters more here than for most tools: what people drop into a colour picker is usually a screenshot, and a screenshot is a picture of whatever else was on the screen at the time.

## Related tools

- [Hex to RGB Converter](https://filetity.com/hex-to-rgb): Convert a hex colour to RGB, HSL and CMYK, and check its contrast.
- [Invert image colors](https://filetity.com/invert-image-colors): Flip every colour in an image to its opposite.
- [Image Converter](https://filetity.com/image-converter): Convert images to JPG, PNG or WebP, in a batch, with the output your choice.