Color Picker

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   Pick at Position

   Tap any pixel, get the hex

   Open a photo and tap any point. You get the color's HEX code and closest name, a palette from the same photo and the pencil that matches.

   • HEX, RGB and the closest color name
   • A palette pulled from the photo
   • The closest Polychromos or Prismacolor pencil
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   Master Palettes

   Paint with the masters' colors

   Palettes taken from public-domain paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago, such as Monet's Water Lilies, with the matching pencils.

   • One palette per painting
   • Matching colored pencils
   • Use the palette in any tool
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   Live Camera

   Pick colors live from your camera

   Point the camera at anything and read the color under the center reticle in real time, then capture it with one tap.

   • Real-time picking
   • A strip of live colors under the view
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   Value Study

   Check values like a painter

   Turn any reference photo into grayscale values and notan, with a value scale, so you can see the lights and darks before you paint.

   • Grayscale and notan
   • Grid, mirror and squint views for drawing
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   Palette Studio

   Build palettes you'll use

   Generate a palette, lock the colors you like, reorder them and reroll the rest until it works.

   • Lock, reorder and reroll
   • Save to My Colors
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   Paint Mixing Guide

   Mix any color from your tubes

   Choose a target color and get a mixing recipe for acrylic, oil or watercolor, made from the tubes in your set.

   • Acrylic, oil and watercolor
   • Recipes from your own tubes
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   Color Grading

   Cinematic color grading

   Film-style presets and LUTs for your photos, with a before and after to compare.

   • Film-style looks and LUTs
   • Compare before and after
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   Brand Color

   Turn colors into a brand

   Describe a brand or a mood and get a complete palette, previewed on business cards, letterheads, packaging and app screens.

   • Primary, secondary and accent colors
   • Contrast checked against AA and AAA
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   Color Hub

   Every color code in one tap

   One color in every format: HEX, RGB, HSL, HSB, CMYK, XYZ and CIE Lab, with its shades, harmonies and closest pencil.

   • Copy any code with a tap
   • Shades and related colors
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    Color Harmony

    Get harmonies that just work

    Complementary, analogous, triadic, tetradic, split-complementary, square and monochromatic, on a color wheel with a design preview.

    • Seven harmony rules
    • See the scheme on a real layout

Photo Palette

Extract a clean palette from any image, with how much of the picture each color covers.

Paint Match

Find the closest colored pencils in Faber-Castell Polychromos and Prismacolor Premier.

Procreate Palette

Turn a photo into a Procreate .swatches file, ready to import.

Gradient Generator

Gradients built from your colors, saved to My Colors.

Color Blindness Simulator

See a palette as people with protanopia, deuteranopia, tritanopia or achromatopsia see it.

Shades and Tints

Lighter tints, darker shades and muted tones of any color, in even steps.

My Swatches

Capture your real paint and pencil swatches with the camera, corrected for the paper.

Color Atlas

Browse colors by hue, laid out by value and chroma.

Gamut Mask

See a palette on the color wheel and limit it to a mask shape.

• Skin Tone PickerSample light, midtone and shadow from a portrait and get a mix for each.
• Color TransferMatch the colors of a photo to a reference photo.
• Background RemoverCut the subject out of a photo.
• Contrast CheckerCheck text and background colors against WCAG AA and AAA.
• Photo to PencilsSee which pencils a whole reference photo needs.
• My SuppliesMark the paint sets and pencils you own.
• Color MixerMix two colors and see the result.
• Color NameFind the closest named color for any code.

Questions

Step-by-step help for every screen: read the Color Picker user manual.