Color Study is a tool for artists to simplify images, study color and value, and accurately match colors through paint mixing. Load any photo and reduce it to clear shapes and essential color information.
Color Study generates a clear color map of your reference and provides guidance for mixing paints to match the colors 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 color picker with magnification and pixel averaging options
• Place and customize color markers directly on your reference
• Inspect value, saturation, and color codes (RGB, HSV, HSL, CMYK, LAB)
• Automatically extract key colors and accents in an image, and mark their locations
• Compare colors to assess value, relative temperature, saturation, and perceptual difference
• Customizable 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 color 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
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 analyze what they see and make better decisions in their artwork.
Study master paintings, analyze your own photos, and deepen your understanding of value structure, color harmony, and visual design.
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My main learning focus right now is color mixing with oils. What i most appreciate with Color Study is that i can choose my starting palette using my preferred primaries and favorites. The other thing i like is that there are 2 or 3 options for mixing, accurate, simple and sometimes a 3rd. So i can set up my basic palette colors then when i choose a color in my reference image there is consistency with the generated mixes because i chose the base colors and the suggested mixes have so far been pretty accurate. I also appreciate the app will reload the reference image with all my color selections after closing the app or the image. I love that! Just keep going with the updates and whatever. It is a solid app for its essential simplicity. There are many more tools for me to appreciate in this app over time. Thank you!
Great resource!
BRNCNana
Although I have always mixed my own colors, this app allows me to set the colors on my palette, choose a color on my reference photo to match, then it gives me the mix and percentage of each color to achieve a match. Love it, however, what would make this app really stand out would be the ability to choose the brand of paints that an artist is using, as hues tend to be a bit different between brands, and then be able to choose the exact colors on your palette. Otherwise, a wonderful resource for artists!
Developer Response
Thank you for the thoughtful review! I’m really glad picking the color from a reference and getting the mixing recipes have been helpful in your process. Being able to choose specific paint brands is a great suggestion as well — I appreciate you sharing that idea. Thanks for taking the time to leave such kind feedback!
Where has this been my whole life??
Kennysmum
Absolutely amazing. Immediately takes the headache out of mixing colors. Love that I can create my own palettes. Every feature is incredible. I only wish I could name palettes, and although the paints are incredibly thorough, I have a few on my shelf that aren’t included in the app (I use gamblin oil paints). Neither of these are dealbreakers and couldn’t possibly sway me from using this app! I’m already a loyal customer. Thank you!!
Developer Response
Thanks so much for the review and kind words! Happy to hear it is helping remove some of the stress and friction in mixing colors. That's great feedback on the palette naming and having more paint selection. I'm happy to say multiple palettes and naming is now supported in the app (long-press the palette name to rename). There are also a few more paints that will be added in the next release, but would love to learn what gaps there may still be if you don't mind emailing me at: support@brushlabsllc.com. Thank you!
This app is really incredible for artists
ADalt11
I’m a beginner artist who has been painting for a couple years, so I’m still learning to recognize values and hues from life and from photos. I try to use the app as a learning partner to check my instincts and improve my skills rather than make decisions for me, and it is absolutely fantastic for that.
Developer Response
Thank you for the review! I really like that method you describe, to use the app as a learning partner and cross-check, to continue to improve skills.
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
Version 2.0.5
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Information
Seller
BrushLabs LLC
Size
186.3 MB
Category
Graphics & Design
Compatibility
Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 13.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
