Have you ever heard that Flickr has a cousin? For an online service that claims “certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world” without making that statement a shameful lie, it’s no surprise to see that a lot of other Web-based services come with support for it, and now there’s one that even has a name closer to Flickr…
… but there’s more to ColorSuckr than the name and the ability to import Flickr images, believe me! The idea behind this site? You enter the URL of some image (if you enter only a base URL, something like http://www.download3000.com, you will be shown the images on that page and allowed to pick one to use) or simply get one from Flickr, then create color schemes based on those images – no color wheel to play with, nothing to give you a headache. In fact, I am sure that even my grandmother could easily use this one… if she would be familiar with computers, of course! She’s not, so let’s move on, shall we?
Once the image is loaded, a bunch of color schemes are generated, and you can easily go through them and get Hex, Web safe and RGB values of each color, or – even better – simply scroll down a bit and choose to get results as RSS, JSON or XML, as well as to download one Adobe .ACO swatch file.
At last, you should also be aware that ColorSuckr provides a very useful Firefox plugin (also free, of course) that allows you to right click any image inside a site, choose ‘Extract Image Colors’ from the menu, and go right to the ColorSuckr website with the image you selected!
Compatibility: any major browser, as far as I can tell
