Converting RGB to HSV
RGB describes a color as amounts of red, green, and blue light from 0 to 255 — the native model of every screen and camera. HSV (also called HSB) describes a color by hue, saturation, and value/brightness — the model behind most color-picker wheels.
RGB and HSV both describe on-screen color, so the conversion is exact and lossless. RGB is handy for digital screens, programming, and CSS rgb() values, while HSV is better for color pickers and image-editing tools like Photoshop and GIMP.
This RGB to HSV converter works instantly in your browser: type or pick a RGB color and the HSV value updates live, along with every other common format so you can copy whichever you need. Nothing is sent to a server, and it is completely free with no limits.
When do you need HSV?
Reach for HSV when you are working on color pickers and image-editing tools like Photoshop and GIMP. Designers and developers routinely convert RGB to HSV to move a color between a web workflow and a design one without eyeballing it. If you want to grab a color straight from an image instead of typing it, try our color picker from image, or build a full scheme with the palette generator.
You can also convert in the other direction with our HSV to RGB converter, or jump to any other format — the tool always shows HEX, RGB, HSL, HSV, and CMYK side by side.