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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Love this app. I’ve been looking for something like this for ages. I teach art online for beginner and intermediate artists. While I like to choose my own colours, this app speeds the process up for me which means I can get on and create and film my tutorials.
Could be good but needs refining.
harmsonh71
Some good features but there is one underlying problem with this app. I have a fixed palette and have spent a lot of money developing it I don’t want to be recommended lots of different paints rather I want to mix the colours using what I already have. Also colour name is less important than the pigment number …. 2 paints with the same name can be made using different pigment and handle very differently.
Developer Response
Thanks for the thoughtful feedback. The app is intended to generate recipes using the paints in your selected palette, and each paint in the palette editor should include pigment information where available. Below the recipe, you may also see optional paint suggestions that could help achieve a closer mix, but those can be turned off by selecting “Don’t suggest paints.”It sounds like something may not be working as expected, or could be clearer. If you don’t mind contacting me at support@brushlabsllc.com, I’d really like to understand what you’re seeing so I can improve things.
Excellent for oil/acrylic
moooooimcmooingface
Wonderful app, really useful to be able to pin point colours and quickly identify the mixes. 10/10
Developer Response
Thank you so much for the kind review! I’m really glad the app has been useful for identifying colours and how to mix them.
I love but add more paint brands
Emc14!!
The app is so so great, the only thing i wish is that there were more paint brands and colours on the pallette part, it makes it difficult to use the mixing feature
• Gouache paint mixing and other additional paints
• Include grid in exports
Version 2.0.12
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