What color is it?

[glorybound]

I thought this was neat, and wanted to share. I was looking for a way to get the dominant color of an image, and this works perfectly.

http://whatsitscolor.com/

[YoyoBoy]

You can find the average color of an image in Photoshop by going Filter -> Blur -> Average.

[glorybound]

I did not know that.

[simmsimaging]

This does something more than blur/Average. Nice find - thanks Bobby!

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[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

Or just configure the sample tool to sample more then 1 point so it will look at surounding points giving u an avarege.... - photoshop btw...

[glorybound]

my initial goal was to find a way to get the overall hue of part, or all of, an image. I was thinking along the lines of, the old trick of, poking a hole in a piece of paper to find value in a photo. If I like a photo, or rendering, I can crop parts and find its hue. I like sunsets, and if I find a photo I like I can find out how orange one side of the image is, and how blue the other side is.... I hope this makes sense.

[simmsimaging]

For that kind of specific sampling the blur/average on selections of a shot, or the enlarged sample size technique, will do the job more precisely for you, and faster. I like the various complementary shades that site gives you though, kinda handy for other stuff.

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[kiteman]

Thanks for sharing !!

Regards

[zeronove]

do you already know about this one from adobe?

http://kuler.adobe.com

[glorybound]

Yes. It's actually built into CS5

do you already know about this one from adobe?

http://kuler.adobe.com