Detect “overall average” color of the picture

Question

I have a jpg image.

I need to know \"overall average\" the color of the image. At first glance there can use the histogram of the image (channel RGB).

At wor

Answer 1

Combining JKirchartz and Alexander Hugestrand answer:

 function getAverage($sourceURL){

    $image = imagecreatefromjpeg($sourceURL);
    $scaled = imagescale($image, 1, 1, IMG_BICUBIC); 
    $index = imagecolorat($scaled, 0, 0);
    $rgb = imagecolorsforindex($scaled, $index); 
    $red = round(round(($rgb['red'] / 0x33)) * 0x33); 
    $green = round(round(($rgb['green'] / 0x33)) * 0x33); 
    $blue = round(round(($rgb['blue'] / 0x33)) * 0x33); 
    return sprintf('#%02X%02X%02X', $red, $green, $blue); 
 }

Tried and tested, returns hex string.