Color Grab – Everything is so colourful here

The Color Grab app from Loomatix clearly stands out from all the other colour palette apps I have tested. For example, it has an accessibility feature and can read out colours for people who are colour-blind. What’s more, Color Grab is free of charge and has no adverts.

With Color Grab, colours can be collected without having to resort to photos. You point your mobile phone camera at the colour area and with two clicks it is added to the palette. Of course, colours can also be collected from photos or a photo can be analysed automatically. It is a pity that the analysis always analyses the entire photo and not the previously selected area.

Farben aus Fotos einsammeln – hier ein Achat-Stein.

If you want to do this, you must first crop the photo in another app. The analysed colour map then shows in percentages which colours are present in the photo. You can then select which of the colours should be transferred to the palette. Automatically generated palette of the agate stone photo Certainly a mobile phone cannot replace an X-Rite colour scanner, but Color Grab at least offers a white balance function, colours can be mixed and palettes can be generated with a number of colour harmony rules. In addition, a number of colou...


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