Expert: Candice Anderson - 7/4/2006

Question
Candice, sorry, but you didn't understand my question.  I want to know what the single average pixel color is for a photograph.  I am NOT looking to change a pixel.

Chris
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Followup To

Question -
Candice,

Thanks for your time.  I know I saw this while browsing around
but cannot find it again.  I need to find the single average pixel
color value of an image.  Specifically, I have an art project
involving 500 snapshots in red pants.  I want to put them in a
grid across the wall and would like them to progress in tonal
and color value, so the greener pics would gradually change to
bluer pics which will gradually change to lavender, etc.  I
thought it would be easiest if somehow Photoshop can read an
image and reduce it to a single average pixel value.

I know the histogram pallette has mean and median, but that
only seems to apply to tonal value, not color.  Am I reading this
wrong, or should I be looking elsewhere?

I will be impressed if you know the answer.

Christopher Schneider

Answer -
Ya, single pixel changing works, and if you do that, just change it your self.  Literally, go to your cmyk and change the pixels yourself.

Or go to your color palette and grab a pantone pallete.  You can keep them in CMYK, but the pallette already has the colors in order from dark to light.  

Candice :)

Answer
Hit the wrong button!

If I understand you correctly, in order to view the color, what you need to do is open the info box (window, info) then take your eyedropper tool and click on the color you wish to view.  All of what you need will be in the info box.

http://www.astropix.com/HTML/J_DIGIT/DIGTECHS.HTM, good website.

Candice ;)