Algorithm challenge: Generate color scheme from an image

Question

Background

So, I\'m working on a fresh iteration of a web app. And, we\'ve found that our users are obsessed with being lazy. Really lazy. In fact, the more wor

Answer 1

Average the hue, saturation and brightness separately while keeping the min/max values.

Lock the target hue of all the colours to the average and interpolate the saturation and brightness for the x points between the boundaries. This should return a scheme with a colour cast the same as the foto but with a simple variation. Maybe you'll even get the Apple look.

Just hope you don't get 3 shades of dog puke.