img2mat_pro

Image 2 Material Pro

Extract materials and color palettes from any image. Generate production-ready materials, swatches, labels, Blender Palettes, and Assets with one click.

Highlights

• It just works. Load an image. Click Generate Materials. Done.
• Simple UI with Advanced Options
• K-Means (RGB, Comfy) or Poster Unique extraction
• Lock Colors allow you to ensure the specific color you want gets created as a material.
• Auto-sized labels that never exceed swatch width
• Asset-ready materials in the click of a button
• Image Editor sync will use whatever image is visible in the Image Editor
• Plain English Color Names created automatically
• Blender Palette creation for your texture painting needs

How to Use

1. Open View3D → Sidebar → Img2Mat.
2. Load an image into an Image Viewer window. Make sure the Sync with Image Viewer checkbox is enabled at the top of the Img2Mat window.
3. Choose how many colors you want to pull by adjusting the Palette Size (default 8).
4. If you want to ensure a color gets added as a material, add a Lock Color and then sample from the image. Rename the color if you'd like. You can use the custom name for this color by enabling the Use Lock Names checkbox.
5. In Output, enable Generate Swatches/Generate Labels/Mark as Assets/Create Blender Palette as desired.
6. Click Generate Materials.

Pro Features

This tool is designed to simply work with zero fuss. However it wouldn't be a Pro tool if it didn't offer options under the hood.

If you toggle down the Options, you'll find two separate methods for sampling.

K-Means is based on Christian Byrne's ComfyUI img2colors node. It works 99.99% of the time, however if you find that the colors aren't accurate, you can try the Poster Unique method.

Color Space will sample images in sRGB (useful for JPG, PNG, etc.) by default. If you're using an EXR or HDR file, you can set the Color Space to Linear to sRGB.

Sampling / Comfy K-Means / Lock Snapping are all settings you can play with if the tool isn't grabbing accurate colors. To be honest, I don't know what they do and I've never had to adjust them. But there there if you want to play with them.

Naming allows you to change the way the colloquial color names are applied. If you find that the color names aren't quite matching what you'd expect, you can try a different method here.

Subsurface lets you determine if the colors will impact the resulting material's subsurface scattering. Leave it at 0 for normal materials. If you're doing leaves, skin, etc. set it to 0.2. For wax, set it to 0.5.

Assets & Palette let you specify names for the assets and palettes created.