To create a palette from a photo

I think I saw this technique somewhere in my forgotten experience: Say you have a photo of a pretty lizard on a nice rocky background. You like it so much you want to use these colors to create something new -- a theme, a site, an illustration. I thought I saw a way to get the colors from a color table generated by the photo -- as in SaveForWeb gif -- to put those colors into your swatches. Looking through Help indexes I can't seem to formulate a question to generate instructions for how to do it.
I know there are many color libraries, I see Load Swatches, I just don't know how to get my lizard colors to a format that then I could load...
While we're at it, about color and planning color for web sites, any good guide-books or articles to read? I want millions of colors even if there is some risk that not everyone will see the shades I see... I'm not sticking to web safe. Lotta trouble with lost saturation when SavingForWeb too.

Good answers, thanks, I love colorhunter. And I'm grateful to be told PNG has gamma issues, I often use png, but I bounce between jpg, gif and png so much depending on various issues, file size, smoother edges, and best saturation. Sometimes I save the file directly from Photoshop SaveAs as a jpg or png and use the larger result simply because it gives better saturation, and I just try to keep it small. Rather than SaveForWeb.
Evidently there is not a way to get a bunch of the gif table into the swatches?

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