To get started, just enter a direct image URL and click on ‘Get Colours’ button. The site will then present extracted colors along with the hex code, web safe hash code etc. You can move the color results around the page and view the color schemes for each extracted color, download schemes as Adobe .ASE swatch file or share them with others by forwarding a link.

The application is also available as a Firefox addon that makes color extraction even easier. Once installed, just right-click any image on the web to extract the 12 most common colors from it.

Features:

• Easily extract colors from photos and create color schemes.
• View results in XML, RSS and JSON formats.
• Download schemes as Adobe .ASE swatch file.
• Firefox addon that makes color extraction even easier provided.
• Provides a permanent link to the color scheme.
• Option to switch between the dark/light backgrounds.
• Free, no sign up required.
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The best thing about this tool is that it gives you a huge number of options both while choosing the color scheme and while previewing it. Ranging from options like mono, complement, triad etc, adjusting the scheme for brightness and contrast and previewing it in different formats, there are many options to choose from.

Features:

• Multi-utility tool for creating website color schemes.
• Choose the colors and preview the scheme right-away.
• Various preview options available.
• Set the scheme to mono, complement, triad and many more.
• Refine the scheme using the adjust scheme option.
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It gives you a set of colors extracted from the image along with a hexadecimal code of each color. Download the generated colors as an Adobe Swatch file (.aco) onto your computer or click to send results to your email.

There is also an iPhone version available, which lets you extract a palette of colors from any image captured with the iPhone’s camera.

Features:

• Generate color palette from image.
• Supports PNG, GIF, JPG image formats.
• Upload file size limit 500 KB.
• Download the extracted colors as an Adobe Swatch file (.aco) or send results to your email address.
• iPhone version available.
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• Free, no registration required.

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You can either view the full report or only the errors. All the tests performed are based on the algorithms suggested by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

Features :

• Online color contrast checker.
• Analyzes the colors of the website to find any inconsistency of contrast, brightness and colors.
• Checks if the site is pleasantly viewable by someone with color deficits.
• View the full report or only the errors.
• Tests performed are based on the algorithms suggested by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

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When you search for color palettes by tag, ColorHunter searches Flickr.com for images labeled with that tag and then uses thumbnails from those images to create a color palette.

You can also create an optional account and make a list of your favorite color palettes.

Features:

• Create a color palette from picture.
• Search by tag, hex color code or image URL.
• Option to upload an image and get color palettes based on colors in the image.
• Make a list of your favorite color palettes.
• Free to use, with optional sign up.
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To start, simply select image and press on “Get Palette” button. Set of color palletes will be generated, you can then use your mouse to compare and view the hexadecimal code of each color on the pallete.

You can save the colors as a CSS Stylesheet (.css file) or Photoshop swatches (.aco file). The application supports PNG, GIF, JPG, JPEG image formats with a maximum size of 1 MB.

Features:

• Generate color palette from an image file.
• Save colors palette as a CSS Stylesheet (.css file) or Photoshop swatches (.aco file).
• Compare and view palette color by selecting with mouse.
• Max file size: 1 MB.
• Supported image formats: PNG, GIF, JPG, JPEG..
• Free and no registration.
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This can be especially useful for website owners when choosing the right colors for the on-site ads.

Features:

• Website color extractor.
• Extracts colors from the website’s stylesheet (style.css file).
• No registration and free.

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Finally click on the “apply” buttom to copy the color mood to another image. The image will be generated, just click on the download button and save it to your computer.

Features:

• Recolor pictures online with a couple of clicks.
• Recolor as many images as you like.
• Upload images from you computer or web URL.
• Save created images onto your computer.
• No registration needed.

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• Choose color schemes from the Combo library
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