Color Study: Simplify Painting

Color Study is a tool for artists to simplify images, study colour and value, and accurately match colours through paint mixing. Load any photo and reduce it to clear shapes and essential colour information.

Color Study generates a clear colour map of your reference and provides guidance for mixing paints to match the colours you see, giving you a practical guide you can use at the easel or in study. Focus on the fundamentals that matter in drawing and painting.

Made for artists

Core tools:
• Accurate colour picker with magnification and pixel averaging options
• Place and customise colour markers directly on your reference
• Inspect value, saturation, and colour codes (RGB, HSV, HSL, CMYK, LAB)
• Automatically extract key colours and accents in an image, and mark their locations
• Compare colours to assess value, relative temperature, saturation, and perceptual difference
• Customisable grid overlay for precise alignment

Advanced tools:
• Interactive value maps, shape simplification, temperature maps and notan controls
• Paint-mixing guidance designed for opaque paints, with real-time feedback from photographed mixes
• Export analysis views and colour maps as images for reference or study
• Advanced grid controls for precision alignment and subdivision
• Generate simplified line drawings and contour maps to clarify structure, edges, and major shapes
• Organise your work into projects with images, paint palettes, and artwork details
• iCloud sync keeps your projects and palettes in sync across all your Apple devices

Advanced tools available with subscription.

Train your artistic eye

Color Study is not a design tool or palette generator. It is a learning tool for painters, illustrators, and art students who want to analyse what they see and make better decisions in their artwork.

Study master paintings, analyse your own photos, and deepen your understanding of value structure, colour harmony, and visual design.

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