Know which tubes to buy before you paint.
Upload a reference photo and Palette Master picks the real paints for your palette, with a mixing recipe for every color.
Ultramarine Blue PB29
Cadmium Red Light PR108
Hansa Yellow Opaque PY74
Phthalo Green PG36
Burnt Sienna PBr7
Quinacridone Magenta PR122
Golden Heavy Body masstones over tints with white, drawn from Golden's published color measurements.
How it works
Six steps from reference photo to paint on the canvas.
1
Add a photo
Any reference you paint from. It's analyzed in your browser and never uploaded.
2
Choose your medium, brand and tube count
Acrylic, oil or watercolor across 11 paint lines, and 3 to 12 tubes plus white. Already own some paints? Add them and the palette is built around them.
3
Get your palette
The app tests thousands of mixes and keeps the set of tubes that can mix the most of your photo. If you added your own paints, it shows what they change.
4
Frame it on your canvas
Open the studio view to see your photo full screen. Set your canvas size, drag it over the photo to choose your composition and add a measured grid.
5
Mix and check
Click any spot for its recipe and see the color alone on neutral gray. Then photograph your paint next to a white card to see how close you are and what to add.
6
Shop
Buy the tubes you don't have at Jackson's or Blick, one tube at a time, and head to the easel.
What you get for each photo
Real tubes, by name
Brand, color name, pigment code, opacity and lightfastness for every paint on your palette.
A recipe for every color
How much of each tube and white to use, a simple ratio like 3 parts to 1, and the Munsell value painters use for lightness.
Mix any spot
Click anywhere in your photo and get a recipe from the tubes you already chose.
A painted preview
See your photo repainted with only the mixes your palette can make, before you buy a single tube.
Built on published paint data
Every recommendation traces back to a paint maker's own chart. Where a brand publishes no color values, the app says so.
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Golden Heavy Body acrylics. Color measured and published by Golden, with dark transparent pigments calibrated against Golden's own tints.
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Gamblin Artist Grade oils. Gamblin's published Munsell values, converted with the RIT Munsell renotation data.
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Winsor & Newton Professional watercolors. Estimated from Golden paints with the same pigment, and labeled as estimates in the app.
Try it with your own photo.
Free to use. Your photo stays in your browser.