PickColor is a free application designed to pick a color from the uploaded image or document. Our app calculates and displays Color Harmony Groups, which are aesthetically pleasant color combinations widely used in the design.
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There are multiple methods of expressing color in digital images. The so-called color model or color space defines all realizable color combinations. This concept is helpful for understanding the capabilities of the specific file format when printing the file.
In the RGB color model the color is produced by combining three primary lights: red, green and blue. Another common way of defining color is to use the HSL color space, which is an alternative representation of the RGB model based on hue, saturation and brightness. Commercial printing uses a range of colors based on mixing cyan, magenta, yellow and black, known as the CMYK color space.
Capture color in RGB, HSL, CMYK, HEX formats
When working with images or documents, it is often necessary to pick a color to get its representation in the specific color space. With our color detection tool, you can do it easily.
If you work with an image, just upload it, click on the image to preview the selected pixel color and get all corresponding color codes.
Our app supports capturing color from PDF, Word, OpenOffice documents using thumbnails, which are reduced-size versions of document pages displayed as images. If you want to grab colors from a document page – upload your document, find this page in thumbnails and work with it as a common image.
Work with color combinations and color harmonies
If you need to combine colors of different shades, tones or tint, our application is also for you. It calculates and displays color harmony groups (complementary, split complementary, tetrad, triadic, etc.), which are commonly used in the design.