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Finding the average color in an image
12 May 2009 by David Goligorsky
Just thinking about a project and quickly found this free online tool by Wise Geek that finds the average color in an image. Seems to be good! I’ve done things like this in MATLAB before, but it’s unnecessarily complicated and Photoshop doesn’t seem to have a good way to do this… please comment if you have a better solution.
The photo here is of the Stanford Solar Car.
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filter —> blur —> average
In Corel Photo-Paint, you can just resample down to a single pixel image with anti-aliasing turned on, then read the color value off the pixel with the eyedropper tool. For the solar car image, I got color #808275. Not identical to true averaging, but remarkably similar.
in Gimp, just Filter > Blur > Pixelize (size:300x225) in one step you get the whole picture in one single-colored tile. It yielded the same color: 575b4c.