[magick-users] Average color

[Fred Weinhaus]

If you want just the color values, use:

convert image.jpg -scale 1x1! -format "%[pixel:p{0,0}]" info:


If you want to create a 100x100 patch with that color use:

convert lena2.jpg -scale 1x1! -scale 100x100! tmp.png



>Hello,
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>Using Image::Magick 6.3.2 (which is what is on the server), is there a way
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>to calculate the 'average' color of a jpg? Say, for instance, an image is
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>overall pink in color, that you can get an pink average color for it?
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>I've seen a mosaic program use something similar (without the code, of
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>course), and I wonder whether this could be accomplished in Image::Magick
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>too.
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>Thanks,
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