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Palette Extractor

Pull the color palette out of any image, sorted into ramps, and export it for Aseprite, GIMP, Photoshop or Lospec. Free, no signup.

$0Free, no watermarks
6Export formats
256Colors max

Runs in your browser on Retro Diffusion's Rust engine. Your images never leave your device.

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PNG · JPG · WebP · GIF, up to 16 megapixels

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Extraction

Extraction

Exact for pixel art; a method and a count for everything else.

Max colors2 to 256
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How it works

Palette Extractor, step by step

  1. 01

    Load an image

    Pixel art gives its exact palette; photos and paintings are summarized to the count you choose.

  2. 02

    Pick the method

    Exact lists every color the art uses. K-means and median cut find the best smaller palette.

  3. 03

    Review the ramps

    Colors are sorted into hue ramps from dark to light, the way pixel artists lay out palettes.

  4. 04

    Export

    Download for Aseprite, GIMP, Photoshop, Paint.NET or Lospec, or copy the hex codes.

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Questions

Palette Extractor FAQ

Drop the image in. For pixel art, “Exact” lists every color it uses with a pixel count; for other images, pick K-means or median cut and a color count to get the colors that best represent it.

.gpl works in Aseprite, GIMP and Krita; .ase in Photoshop and Illustrator; .pal in Paint Shop Pro and many retro tools; .txt in Paint.NET; .hex is the Lospec format; the PNG strip works anywhere.

They are grouped by hue and sorted from dark to light within each group (in the perceptual Oklab space), so ramps sit next to each other the way they would in a hand-made palette.

Yes, free with no signup. It runs in your browser on Retro Diffusion’s Rust engine; nothing is uploaded.

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