Turn the color you see into the pastel you need.

Image

Upload a photograph or a picture of any painting. Crop to the area you need, then move the cursor to sample a color. The studio identifies it and searches the pastel ranges you choose.

1. 1Upload and crop the image if needed.
2. 2Tap or click a color; recent selections remain available at the top.
3. 3Search every brand, selected brands, or only My Sticks.
4. 4Print, save as PDF, or share the resulting list from the printer icon.

Color

Choose a color directly on the wheel, with or without a photograph. If you arrived from Image, the sampled color is already waiting here for you to refine.

1. HAdjust the hue around the wheel.
2. SRaise or lower the saturation.
3. VChange the lightness with value.

Use the brand menu to search every maker at once or one range on its own. Choose one brand, several brands, or all of them. If a result is in your collection, the studio marks it In Your Box.

Alternative

Start with one exact stick, then ask other manufacturers for their closest alternatives. This is useful when a color runs out, a brand is hard to buy locally, or you want more variations of a complex shade.

1. 1Select the original brand and pastel.
2. 2Choose the brands you want to compare.
3. 3Review only genuine alternatives; a visibly different nearest color is marked not a match.

Palette

See how an entire photograph or painting can be represented with a chosen number of sticks from one manufacturer’s range.

1. 1Upload an image and crop it if needed.
2. 2Select one brand and the number of pastels to use.
3. 3Review the simplified image and the exact sticks below it.
4. 4Tap an area to see which stick represents that color.

My Sticks

In Palette, choose My Sticks instead of a brand. The studio will analyze the image using only the pastels already in your collection—even if those sticks come from many different makers.

If your box contains 300 colors, the calculation uses those 300 colors. You can see how closely your materials can reproduce the picture and which missing colors might give you a fuller range of values.

Creating Your Own Palette

Library keeps two kinds of personal content together. Your saved work is stored under Saved projects; the pastel sticks you own are organized under My pastels.

1. 1Open Saved projects whenever you want to return to a project you recorded earlier.
2. 2Open My pastels, choose Add Pastels, and select a brand.
3. 3Use your swatches as a reference and select every color you own by number.
4. 4Add the selection, then continue with the next brand.

Harmony

Explore harmonious combinations using actual sticks from one manufacturer. Choose a brand, place the main color on the wheel, then select a color scheme such as complementary.

1. 1Select a pastel brand.
2. 2Choose the main color and a harmony.
3. 3Move the color or adjust saturation and value; every suggested stick recalculates automatically.

Recent Colors

The last eight colors you selected wait at the top of the page. The row is shared by Image, Color, Alternative and Harmony, so a color sampled from a photograph is still within reach after you have moved on.

1. 1Select a color anywhere; it joins the row.
2. 2Tap any color to return to it — it opens in Color, ready to refine.
3. 3Clear empties the row when you start new work.

Saving a Project

You can save your results as a project at almost any stage of your work. Tap Save this project, give the project a name, and it will appear under Saved projects in Library, ready to reopen or delete later.

1. 1Tap Save this project.
2. 2Give the project a clear name and save it.
3. 3An image-based project keeps the original picture, selected color, and closest pastel matches.