Image Color Extractor

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Drop in a photo — a product shot, a screenshot, a piece of art — and hueshift samples its pixels on a canvas element to find its most common colors. No upload required.

Drop an image here or click to choose one

Your image is processed entirely in this browser tab — it is never uploaded anywhere.

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How to use the Image Color Extractor

  1. Drag an image onto the drop zone, or click it to choose a file.
  2. Pick how many colors to extract from the dropdown.
  3. Review the palette generated from the image's most common pixel colors.
  4. Copy any swatch's HEX value.

FAQ

Does my image get uploaded anywhere?
No. It's read and drawn to an in-memory canvas element by your browser's own JavaScript — hueshift has no server component to upload to.
Why doesn't the palette match the image exactly?
Extraction groups similar pixel colors into buckets and reports each bucket's average, which smooths out noise and gives you usable, distinct swatches rather than thousands of near-duplicate colors.
What image formats are supported?
Anything your browser can decode and draw to a canvas — JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF and most others.
Is there a file size limit?
No hard limit, but very large images are downsampled before sampling for speed — this doesn't change which colors dominate.