RGB to HSV Color Converter

HSV (also called HSB) shares HSL's hue and saturation idea but replaces lightness with value/brightness — how far the color sits from black, regardless of white. This makes HSV a closer match to how color pickers in Photoshop, GIMP and other design software work, where the 'value' slider controls a color's intensity directly.

HSV and HSL both derive from RGB, but they're not the same numbers for saturation — a color's HSV saturation and HSL saturation are usually different values for the same RGB input, since the two models define saturation relative to different reference points (value vs. lightness).

Where this comes up

• Matching a color picked in an image editor's HSV wheel to the RGB or hex value needed elsewhere
• Graphics and game development code that manipulates colors using HSV brightness sliders
• Understanding why the same RGB color shows different saturation numbers in HSL vs. HSV tools