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25) Pictaculous
Pictaculous is a color palette generator that lets you upload an image from your computer and find all colors used inside it.
The tool gives you the HTML codes of the colors inside the image and uses Kuler and COLOURlovers recommendations to find all matching colors you can harmonize with your image. You can also download a readily-available Adobe Swatch file to use in your projects. Pictaculous works on the iPhone as well.
Price: Free.
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24) Color Palette Generator
Color Palette Generator is a web-based tool that allows you to generate a color palette out of any image on the web.
If you find a particular color you want to use on your website or one of your online projects, you can immediately know what that color is, just by copying and pasting the URL of the image and the service will extract each and every color inside the image also giving you the hexadecimal value to use inside your HTML code.
Price: Free.
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23) Color Scheme Designer
Color Scheme Desgner is a web-based tool that generates matching colors to use in your design works.
You can either pick a color or spin the color wheel to find complementary colors of your choice. Different options allow you to display colors in analogic mode, triad, tetrad, accented analogic and also find different shades of a monochromatic color. You can even set different options for your color like brightness and saturation and export your color palette in HTML+CSS, XLS, Text, ACO and GPL file formats.
Price: Free.
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22) ColorToy 2.0
ColorToy 2.0 is a Flash-based color scheme generator and picker.
ColorToy 2.0 generates complementary color schemes based on a set of color values you decide. The service also generates random color combinations if you do not have a set of colors to start with. Color values are accepted either in RGB and HEX formats.
Price: Free.
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21) Instant Color Schemer
Instant Color Schemes is a color matching utility that provides color codes which you can use in your web design or graphic design projects.
You just choose a color combination (e.g. green apple, blue sky, cyan, etc.) and Instant Color Schemer will elaborate the results and give you a color palette of matching colors. Each color has a code you can use inside the source pages of your website.
Price: Free.