Generate Mood Boards Here!
Unleash your creativity with our Color Palette Generator —a mobile-friendly companion for artists, designers, and visual thinkers. Whether you’re capturing inspiration from a forest walk, the textures of your sketchbook, or a favorite piece of fabric, this tool helps you turn everyday visuals into curated color schemes you can use again and again.
From spontaneous photos to scanned drawings, your phone camera and sketchbook become powerful sources for developing unique palettes that reflect your creative vision. UPLOAD an IMAGE or PHOTO so you can capture the colors you need exactly. You can even download your palette directly as an image for reference or sharing using the Save Palette Image button.
Capture Inspiration with Your Phone Camera
Your smartphone is a portable mood board generator. Here’s how to use it intentionally:
Photograph Real-World Textures and Objects
Take snapshots of things that speak to you visually—paint smears, worn wood, leaves, packaging designs, or sunsets. The tool extracts dominant and nuanced colors from your image automatically.
Tip: Zoom in on a small area or crop to isolate color-rich details like rust, lichen, or fabric weave.
Frame Composition from Your Sketchbook
Finished sketches, partial doodles, or colour swatches from previous sessions are all fair game. Photograph them, upload, and get instant hex codes based on the media, pigments, or digital tints you used.
Tip: Shoot at different angles to capture reflective textures (like metallics or wet paint).
Use Flat Lay Photography for Visual Balance
Arrange objects—pencils, pressed leaves, pigment tubes—on neutral paper, then photograph for an image-based palette.
Tip: Natural light enhances true tones and avoids colour distortion from harsh shadows.
Sketchbook to Palette: Building Direct Connections
Your sketchbook isn’t just for drawing—it’s a source of mood, tone, and thematic inspiration. Bridge visual practice with colour creation:
Sample Your Mediums
Use swatches from watercolour, gouache, or marker testing pages. A quick photo of the page can be uploaded into the tool to create palettes based on your actual art materials.
Highlight a Character or Scene
If you’ve illustrated a botanical study or a character design, isolate one area in a photo and let the tool pull key colours from the focal point.
Turn Patterns into Schemes
Doodle textures like tiled patterns, foliage, or line art with coloured accents. A cropped image yields intricate palettes with rich secondary hues.
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Discover Your Color Style | Mood Board Generation
Upload an Image or Photo that has your Colors.
This will extract colors from the image to use in your Mood Boards.
Once your palette is generated, the tool gives you:
- Editable hex codes for digital projects
- Visual previews of each colour swatch
- A “Save Palette Image” button to export a high-quality JPG of your current palette bars
How to Use “Save Palette Image”
After generating your palette:
- Tap the Save Palette Image button.
- The tool instantly creates a JPG file of your color bars view.
- Save the image to your device for use in digital art, client sharing, website design, or social media inspiration.
This image is ideal for storing your favorite palettes, building colour libraries, or including in mood boards across platforms.
Use Your Palette Library to Create Themes
Use your downloaded palette images and hex codes to build recurring aesthetic themes, like:
- “Sketchbook & Nature”
- “Urban Texture Study”
- “Ink & Emotion”
- “Fungi & Folklore”
Your mood boards become not just collections—but tools for ongoing creative clarity.
Final Thoughts
Your camera, your sketchbook, and your curiosity are all you need to build meaningful, personal color palettes. Whether you’re on a walk, rearranging your art desk, or flipping through old drawings, visual storytelling begins with seeing. The Color Palette Tool turns that observation into action. Let your colours speak. Let your palette evolve. Let your creativity flow.
It’s more than finding a perfect colour—it’s about discovering your visual voice one palette at a time.
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I gave this a try, love the Image loader and Save. Solid
yeah, actually kinda useful