Chromapal® | Color assistantUpload a photo of your subject, or take one on the spot with your phone to measure the color instantly. Color Assistant calculates the mixing ratio based on the colors of your brand and selection, and suggests which extra colors you can use for the best result.
The ratios are an approximation — Color Assistant is a tool that gives direction in the painting process, not an exact measuring stick.
Choose your colours, upload a photo and click a colour: you instantly get a mixing recipe with its tonal value. This free version works with twenty general pigments.
Click a colour to switch it on or off. Colours shown in grey are off and are not used in the mixing advice.
White and black
Earth colours
Yellow and orange
Red, magenta and violet
Blue
Green
Colours with a thicker border are in the current mixing advice. Colours shown in grey are off: click them to switch them back on.
In Color assistant you mix with the real tubes of your own brand, calibrated on real paint. Palette advice, tonal values, grisaille and brunaille, classic palettes: everything you need between photo and canvas.
Tap a point in your photo. Chromapal® measures the colour and gives a recipe from the colours you selected, with ratio, percentages and match quality. Small amounts are shown too: a touch of red makes all the difference in a skin tone.
Could it be better with a colour you haven't selected yet? Chromapal® shows which tube from your library improves the match, and by how much.
Old Holland, Michael Harding, Schaal, Rembrandt, Blockx, Schmincke Mussini, Winsor & Newton, Golden and more, in oil and acrylic. Plus nine classic palettes such as Zorn and the Florence Academy. Build your own colour library from the tubes you actually own.
Every measurement shows the tonal value, from 0 % (white) to 100 % (black), so you can check light and shadow separately from colour.
Let Chromapal® analyse the photo and suggest which tubes you need for this painting.
Turn your photo into a detailed pencil drawing with a grid of square cells per centimetre. Enter your canvas size, move the composition into place and print or download the result. With size advice: which canvas fits your photo's proportions.
See your photo as an underpainting: grisaille in umber and ultramarine or in black and white, or brunaille in warm umber and white. With mixing advice and tonal value for each tint. The classic first layer, prepared.
Pick a colour and see its complement and a range of broken shadow tints, each with a recipe from your own tubes.
Save a colour selection and target colour under a title and find them again on every device you sign in on.
Every brand has its own pigments and color character — that's why Color Assistant calculates per brand, not with a generic color set.
from €9.99 per month
Annual subscription: 2 months free. You pay for 10 months, so from €99.90 per year.
Provisional price, incl. VAT. Subscriptions open soon, with a 48-hour free trial.
Try the free version nowYou take or upload a photo and click the point you want to measure. Color assistant instantly calculates a mixing ratio with the paint you chose, including its tonal value. In the full tool it works with the real tubes of your brand.
The free version works with twenty general pigments and is not calibrated on a brand. The full tool works with the tubes of 21 brands, calibrated on real mixes, and includes palette advice, tonal value measurement, grisaille and brunaille, classic palettes and saving palettes. The free version is temporary and goes offline again after the launch.
The advice is an approximation, not an exact measurement. Use it as a starting point and always test a mix on a small scale first.
Among others Old Holland, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Winsor & Newton, Michael Harding, Sennelier, Williamsburg, Blockx, Schmincke, Golden, Liquitex, Ara and Amsterdam, both oil and acrylic. New brands are added continuously.
From €9.99 per month, as a provisional price including VAT. With an annual subscription you get 2 months free. You will be able to try it free for 48 hours first and then cancel monthly.
Your photo stays on your own device and is not stored on our server. For the mixing advice only the measured colour is sent to the server; for palette advice in the full tool a heavily reduced version, which is discarded right after the calculation.
A desktop or tablet works best. Use photos in the sRGB colour profile, the default on almost every phone and camera.
Logging in is currently only possible for testers. Sign-up opens soon.
