Palette Extractor

Pull a paint-ready color palette from any photo — for watercolor matching, embroidery floss, room design, or mood boards.

How to

Upload a photo.
Drag on the image to crop a region of interest (ROI) — colors are sampled only from the crop.
Choose how many colors, then Extract palette.
Copy hex codes, download a strip PNG, or print the swatch sheet.

Drag on the source image to limit sampling to that region.

Colors 6

Include pure black/white

By default, near-white (all > 245) and near-black (all < 12) pixels are skipped when sampling.

Nearest DMC (approx.)

Upload a photo to begin.

Same photo (cropped region) quantized to your extracted palette.