Get Hex Colour Codes from a Photo | Tinta
Frequently asked questions
- What format are the colour values in?
- Exact HEX on every swatch, so a value can be pasted straight into a design tool rather than eyeballed off an image.
- Why not just use an eyedropper on the photo?
- An eyedropper gives you whatever pixel you touch — often the background. Tinta clusters the subject, so the values describe the colour you actually meant.
- Can I get a matching scheme instead of single colours?
- Yes. Tinta suggests harmonies when you want a coordinated set rather than isolated samples.
Why an eyedropper is not enough
Sampling a colour out of a photo with an eyedropper gives you whatever pixel you happened to touch. In most photographs the largest flat area is the background — a wall, a sky, a table — so the eyedropper reliably returns the wrong answer.
Tinta does subject-aware clustering instead. It reads the colours that belong to what you actually shot, which is why it returns the jacket rather than the wall behind it.
What you get
- Every swatch carries its exact HEX
- The shades are ordered by how they read, not by arbitrary position
- Harmony suggestions when a single sample is not what you need
Why exact values matter
A colour you eyeball off an image is approximate in a way that compounds. Write it into a stylesheet, export a layout, hand it to a developer — and every downstream artefact inherits the approximation. An exact HEX pasted once is exact everywhere after that.
Mounting and exporting
Once you have the palette, Tinta mounts it for presentation — instant, film strip, arch window, diptych, spread, deckle edge and more — and exports at up to 4K with P3 wide-gamut colour, with clean edges and real optical grain.
All of it happens on your device. Your photos never leave it, and there is no account.