Color Picker From Image
Read any image\u2019s colors live through a magnifier and lock the exact pixel you want.
- Move your cursor across the picture and the magnifier shows the pixels under it.
- The color readout updates live as you hover.
- Click to lock that pixel and copy its HEX.
Steps to pick a color from an image with the magnifier
- Load a picture by upload, paste, or drag and drop.
- Move your cursor over it and watch the magnifier zoom into the pixels under the crosshair.
- Read the live color as it updates, then click to lock that exact pixel.
- Copy the locked HEX, RGB or HSL, or pick from the Colors from image strip below.
How the magnifier color picker works
As your cursor moves, the tool reads the pixel beneath it straight from the canvas and feeds a zoomed crop into the loupe on the right, with a crosshair marking the exact pixel you would lock. The color panel updates on every move, so finding one specific tone in a busy photo is a matter of hovering rather than clicking and re-clicking. The lock only happens when you click, which keeps the readout steady once you have the color you want.
Why a hover magnifier beats a plain click picker
Clicking blind on a small or detailed image almost always lands a pixel or two off, and on a photo that can mean a noticeably wrong color. The magnifier removes that guesswork: because the loupe shows exactly which pixel sits under the crosshair before you commit, you can place the pick precisely even on fine edges, single hairs or one icon in a screenshot. For anything detailed, hovering to aim is simply more accurate than clicking and hoping.
What the magnifier picker is good for
- Sampling a precise edge color, like the exact border of a logo against its background.
- Reading skin, sky or product tones from the right spot in a photo, not a neighbouring pixel.
- Recreating a color from a tiny detail in a screenshot or piece of UI.
- Hunting through a gradient for the one stop you want before locking it.
Single pixel vs a whole palette
The magnifier is built for one exact color at a time. When you want the overall set of tones in a picture instead, the Palette From Image tool clusters the whole image into a ready palette, and the Image Color Picker offers a straightforward click-to-pick if you do not need the zoom.
The magnifier shows the exact pixel under the crosshair before you lock it, so the pick is accurate down to a single pixel even on fine detail.
Yes. The readout updates live as you hover, and clicking locks the current pixel so the value stays put.
No. The picker runs entirely in your browser on a canvas, so the image never leaves your device.
Zoom your browser in on the picture first; the magnifier then samples within that enlarged view for even finer control.