Color Study: Simplify Painting

BrushLabs LLC

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About this app

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
• Organize your work into projects with images, paint palettes, and artwork details

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.

Ratings and reviews

I am absolutely astounded, impressed, over the moon about this app. i thought it was going to do a few things, i wouldnt use it much, or it wouldnt work. but i am able to mix colors faster and more accurate than ever, which means a lot when i have wrist issues. all the features are so impressively well thought out, the customizations, the options, this is my favorite app i have ever downloaded. thank you

This app is wonderful for color study! It has such versatility for different ways to layout your painting. There are lots of videos to get the most out of the app, making it extra user friendly. This is the most helpful tool I have found for my needs. Well done!

Great app, but I can see some ideas have been lifted from my app Artist Paint Mixer. You should credit me for it.