Extract a beautiful gradient from any photo — drop an image, pick a mood, and the dominant colors become draggable gradient stops. Copy ready-to-paste CSS instantly.

Drag & drop an image here

or click to browse — you can also paste from your clipboard

Everything runs in your browser — your image is never uploaded, no sign-up, completely free.

Source image
Reading colors…
Source image
Mood
Extracted colors
These are the dominant colors pulled from your image. Click a swatch to copy it, or drag the stops below to fine-tune the gradient.
Gradient preview
Gradient type
Angle
°
Color stops
Drag a handle to reposition a stop, or click the bar to add one. Select a stop to edit its color.
Selected stop
%
CSS
background: ;

About Gradient Generator from Image

The Gradient Generator from Image turns any photo into a ready-to-use CSS gradient. Drop, browse or paste an image and the tool reads it on a canvas, extracts its dominant colors and lays them out as gradient stops you can drag, recolor and reorder until the blend matches the feel of the original.

A mood selector — Colorful, Bright, Muted, Deep or Dark — changes which extracted colors become stops, so one photo can yield several very different gradients. You control the gradient type (linear, radial or conic), the angle, and the stops themselves: click the bar to add one, drag to reposition, reverse or rotate in one click.

The entire process runs in your browser; your image is never uploaded to a server. When the preview looks right, copy the complete CSS rule, just the background value, or the extracted colors on their own — ideal for hero sections, page backgrounds and brand visuals derived from photography.

How to use Gradient Generator from Image

  1. Drag and drop an image, click to browse, or paste one from your clipboard.
  2. Pick a mood — Colorful, Bright, Muted, Deep or Dark — to choose which extracted colors become stops.
  3. Select the gradient type (linear, radial or conic) and adjust the angle.
  4. Drag the color stops to fine-tune the blend; add, remove, reverse or reshuffle stops as needed.
  5. Click "Copy CSS" to grab the ready-to-paste gradient code.

Frequently asked questions

No. The image is read directly into a canvas in your browser, and the color extraction and gradient math all happen locally. Nothing leaves your device at any point.

Yes, entirely. Because everything runs client-side there are no credits, accounts or limits — extract gradients from as many images as you like.

This tool starts from a photo: it extracts the image’s dominant colors and builds the gradient from them. The regular Gradient Generator starts from scratch with colors you choose yourself. Both produce the same kind of editable, copy-ready CSS.

The moods re-rank the colors extracted from your image: Colorful favors vivid varied hues, Bright picks light saturated tones, Muted selects softer desaturated ones, and Deep and Dark pull richer, darker colors. Switching moods rebuilds the gradient stops instantly.

Yes. Every stop is draggable, you can click the bar to add stops or remove selected ones, change any stop’s color, switch between linear, radial and conic, rotate the angle in 45° steps, reverse the direction, or reshuffle new colors from the image.


Popular searches
gradient from image extract gradient from photo image to css gradient photo gradient generator create gradient from picture css gradient from image
Need help?
Found an issue with this tool? Let our team know.
Report an issue

Add this free tool to your own website — copy and paste the code below.