Image palette extractor: questions and guides
Each guide here answers one question with a practical example, then takes you to the tool to try it yourself. Guides: 10.
Questions
- How to extract a color palette from an imageHow to extract the main colors of an image sorted by area, why to leave out a white background, and how to export them for your store.
- 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.