Color Picker

Find the color. Keep the palette.

Color Picker Home with illustrated feature tiles
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Android app coming soon.

Pick a color with the camera or from a photo, compare shades and keep colors or palettes for your next project. Home brings together Pick a color, Compare, Color vision, Image, Effects, Create, Saved and Settings. Other screen layouts include Camera app and Instrument, and saved choices are remembered. The Android app is being prepared for release. Some calibration, color-library, photo and export features require Plus or Pro.

Put it to work.

Practical ways to use Color Picker.

Keep a material palette

Read a surface or photo and save colors with names, tags and notes for a project.

Compare two shades

Use A and B under consistent lighting to inspect their difference and codes.

Explore a visual idea

Create harmonies or gradients, or preview a photo effect and wall color on a separate image copy.

Your first few minutes.

Start with a useful task, then keep the result.

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  1. Pick a source

    Use Pick a color for the live camera or Image for a photo. Keep lighting even.

  2. Hold and inspect

    Place the sampling lens carefully, adjust spot size and Hold while checking the name and code.

  3. Keep or compare it

    Save the color, compare with a second sample, or build a palette in Create.

Learn by trying.

Open Tour & lessons from the section’s ⋮ menu or Settings for Tour, Showroom and live-camera Lessons. Practice saves and palettes are not kept, and your settings return afterward. This Android app is being prepared for release.

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Practice 1

Find a color

Point the camera at a familiar object and move the sampling lens. Notice how the name and codes change.

Practice 2

Compare and create

Keep a color, compare it with a second one, then use Create to build a palette or gradient.

Practice 3

Keep your palette

Open Saved, select your result and copy a code or share it in a format your plan offers.

Small tips. Better results.

Useful habits for your next task.

All tips in the guide ›

Use even lighting and avoid glare, cast shadows and reflections when sampling a material.

Choose a small spot for a thread or detail and a wider spot to average a textured wall. Keep the lens on the material you intend to sample.

When comparing two samples, keep lighting and camera brightness/tint consistent. Keep camera settings prevents automatic changes between readings.

Calibrate with a white paper, gray card or color chart in the same light as the sample. Recheck when you move to different lighting.

Hold freezes the picture and reading while still letting you move the lens; Save keeps the color in Saved.

Sample photos through Image when the subject is already captured. Main colors can build a palette where the app’s plan allows it.

Effects and wall paint previews create a copy. Compare a real paint sample in the intended light before choosing a finish.

Camera display effects do not alter the original color used for names and codes. Use the code from the reading rather than judging a simulated display by eye.

Get the highlights.

Color picker. Identify colours in the camera or a photo, save colours and palettes, and compare or create colours.

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Color vision. Simulate common colour-vision differences, or highlight selected hues in the camera.

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Take a closer look.

Learn how to use it.

Step-by-step instructions for the app and its tools.

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Color Picker

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