Create Color Swatches from
Photos for Painting
The fast, easy way to create accurate color swatches from any photo or reference image.
Developed by a professional graphic designer with over 30 years of experience. A techy, a purist who knows that hue, tone, and value must be right. Traditional design tools work, but they're too time-consuming for color studies. HueMixy was built to solve one problem: less time working, more time painting.
Your Eyes Lie About Color
That tree trunk reads as brown because we learn it that way. The same goes for leaves as bright green and eyeballs as white. In isolation, those spots are often neutral greys, muted greens, or warm off white, depending on the light.
Colors that sit next to each other also bend perception. Surrounding hues and values bias how a patch looks, shifting its apparent hue, value, and chroma, even for experienced eyes.
The solution is to isolate the color. HueMixy is the best way to create color swatches from a photo in one place. Isolate the color, record the source, organize swatches, and lay out boards for print. Get a clean, ready-to-print study without the detours of general design suites.
Why Create Color Swatches
from Photos for Painting?
To see true color values, you need to isolate them from their context. Creating color swatches from a photo lets you extract colors from reference material so you can work with what is actually there, not what your eyes assume. Catching these relationships is often what turns a good painting into a great one.
Traditional design tools like Photoshop or Illustrator can create color swatches, but they're too time-consuming for painters, even if you're a professional graphic designer. Those tools weren't built for this specific workflow.
HueMixy is the fast, easy way to create color swatches from a photo for painting. Purpose-built for artists by an artist. Less time working, more time painting.
Paint Mixing Formulas
from Your Color Swatches
After you create color swatches from a photo, HueMixy shows you the approximate paint mixing formula for each color. This is the best way to take guesswork out of color mixing and discover new combinations you never thought of before.
Mix Formulas
See exactly which pigments to mix and in what proportions
New Combinations
Discover color mixes you wouldn't have thought to try
Less Guesswork
Spend less time mixing, more time painting
Start Creating Color Swatches
from Photos Today
The fast, easy way to create accurate color swatches for painting. Built by an oil painter for painters.
Less time working. More time painting.