Colora vs Paletto Studio

Colora is a free Windows color converter and screen picker for selecting and saving colors. The screen picker includes zoom for more precise selection, and the converter handles RGB, HEX, HSB, HSL and CMYK. You can create custom palettes, save them for later and export them to GIMP; an automatic history also retains recently picked colors. Window controls let Colora stay on top of other windows or use a minimal size mode. It requires Windows 7 or newer and .NET Framework 4.6 or higher. The maker says the picker has been tested with Windows 10 and DPI scaling. Downloads are offered through SourceForge, with installation also available through Chocolatey. Colora is published by Bluegrams under the BSD 3-Clause license. SourceForge lists version 0.3.1, dated September 11, 2020, as the latest release.

Paletto Studio is a free web-based color tool for surface pattern designers. It can extract colors from a photo, refine them with harmony tools, and preview them on a design in the browser. Users can also create palettes from pasted hex codes or colors in their library. The palette tool accepts PNG, JPG, and WEBP images up to 50MB. Recoloring can start from hex codes, a library palette, or a newly created one, and palettes can be exported for Photoshop, Procreate, and more. Palette and recolor tools work without an account. Signing in lets users save palettes, organize them into collections, and load them into the tools. Uploaded images are processed in the browser and are not sent to Paletto Studio’s servers or third parties. Users own their designs and palettes, but the terms do not guarantee that exported colors will match physical print output; monitor calibration and substrate variation can affect it. The site uses a session cookie to keep users signed in and says it does not use advertising or tracking cookies.