Images and product photos: guides

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• How do I make my Canva design background the exact color of the product in my photo?Take your product's color code from its photo and paste it into Canva to build matching posts. Which point to pick, and what to do about text on it.
• Once I have picked my brand color, should the text on it be white or black?The HSL lightness the color picker shows gives a first hint, but the right answer comes from the contrast ratio. Examples in numbers show when the hint misleads you.
• How do I grab the exact background color of a product photo so a banner or collage blends into it?Extend a product photo into a banner or collage with no visible line where it ends: where to sample the backdrop color, and why backdrops are rarely one flat value.
• How do I get CSS color values from a mockup PNG my designer sent me?Got the design as a PNG with no source file? Read each element's color precisely with coordinates and arrow keys, then copy HEX, rgb() or hsl() for your CSS.
• How do I get the color of small text or a thin line in an image when every click gives a lighter shade?Clicks on small text give a lighter color than the real one because of smoothed edges. Reach the truest pixel mid-stroke with the magnifier and arrow keys.
• I asked the palette extractor for 8 colors and got only 3; why?When the palette extractor shows fewer colors than you asked for, nothing is broken: the image holds no more distinct colors. When it happens and what to do.
• Which sample size should I pick in the palette extractor: 100, 200 or 400 px?The sample size decides how much detail survives before colors are counted. What happens to a thin stripe at each size, where to start and when to go up.
• How do I import my product's color palette into GIMP or Inkscape?Download the palette as GPL, the GIMP palette format that Inkscape and Krita also open. What the file holds, how to import it, and when JSON or CSS fits better.
• Why does my logo's palette show pale shades I never used in the design?Your logo's palette shows a pale pink or grey your designer never chose. It comes from soft edges blending into white. How to get rid of it, in numbers.
• How do I use each color's percentage in the palette to choose my store's main and accent colors?Read each color's share in the palette to choose a main color for large areas and an accent for buttons, and see why the shares may not total 100.
• My jewelry is shot on dark grey velvet; how do I stop the background dominating the palette?'Ignore near-black' removes only true black, not the dark grey of velvet. Why, and how cropping solves it, with numbers from a jewelry photo.
• Why does my colleague get slightly different HEX values from the same image in the palette extractor?No randomness: the same image and settings in the same browser give the same palette. So where does the difference come from, and how does the JSON help?
• How do I pull the colors from my best-performing Instagram post so I can reuse them in future posts?One post did well and you want to build your feed's look on it. How to extract its colors from the right file, how many to take, and how to keep them as a reference.
• How do I get one combined palette from several photos of my new collection?The palette extractor reads one image at a time. Combine a collection into a gapless collage, extract one palette, and see why each photo's area sets its weight.
• Can a photo reveal my camera's serial number or my name as its owner?Some cameras and apps write the owner, artist, copyright and serial numbers into a photo. How to see which your file holds and strip them without re-encoding.
• Can someone who downloads my photo tell exactly when I took it?A photo can hold its capture time, last edit time and a GPS date. Where these hide in JPEG and PNG, what they reveal about your routine, and how to remove them.
• If I send a product photo on WhatsApp as a document, does my location go with it?A photo sent as a document arrives as the file itself, with its metadata, including location if present. How to check, and how to clean it without losing quality.
• Should I keep or remove the ICC color profile when I strip my photo's metadata?The one choice the metadata remover asks you: keep or drop the ICC color profile. What it does, when dropping it changes your colors, and how the pixel check tells you.
• Why is my photo only a few KB smaller after removing its metadata?Stripping metadata saved only a few KB? That is expected: metadata is small and the image data is untouched. A smaller file is a job for compression.
• Is taking a screenshot of a photo a safe alternative to a metadata remover for dropping its location?A screenshot usually drops the original GPS, but it loses resolution, catches bits of the screen and makes a new file with its own data. Compared with lossless removal.
• Why do some items like JFIF and pHYs stay in the file after I clean the photo?After removal, some items in the list are marked 'Stays'. What they are, why the tool keeps them, and why none of them carries your location or device identity.
• Can a phone's motion photo hide a short video inside the JPEG file?Some phones append a short video or extra pictures after the end of a JPEG, invisible in normal viewers. How the tool reports it, and what removal does.
• How do I check what hidden data is inside a PNG I exported from a design app?A PNG can hold text chunks naming the software, author or a comment, XMP packets and a last edit time. How to see them and strip them without touching the pixels.
• Why does the tool find no metadata at all in a photo I saved from a chat or a website?A photo saved from a chat or website shows no metadata. What that result really means, what it does not, and why to check the original before posting.