XnView Software

Directory Opus v6.2 Help (The Viewer Settings » Background color) wrote:This option lets you configure the background color of the Viewer. If you set this to Auto then Opus will pick a color automatically from the image.

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• Canvas resize
• Custom rotate / De-skew
• Clear
• Add text

• Specify bg color for image transparency...
• bakground color
• checkerboard background option for transparent images
• Automatic background tone
• Auto filters in slideshows White transparency
• My GUI feedback on XnView MP » neutral != grey

• BigHugeLabs.com: Color Palette Generator
  Choose or upload a photo and a color palette based on the colors in the photo will be generated automatically. Use it to help with art projects, website design, or even with decorating your home.
• Color Hunter
  Color Hunter is a place to find and make color palettes created from images.
• COLOURlovers: PHOTOCOPA — Your Photos as Color Palettes
  PHOTOCOPA helps you find color inspiration in photographs. Sampled colors and 6 great palette suggestions help you make a great photo inspired color palette.
• Paul Burgess: Colorsuckr
  Create color schemes based on photos for use in your artwork & designs
• Lloyd Dalton: colr.org
  Play with colors and color schemes!
• Steven DeGraeve: Color Palette Generator
  Enter the URL of an image to get a color palette that matches the image. This is useful for coming up with a website color palette that matches a key image a client wants to work with.
• Genopal: Pic2color
  Great color palettes inspired by pictures
• IDimager Systems: Freeware Tools » Average Color Seeker
  Average Color Seeker is a utility that allows you to find the average color for a particular photo. This color can be used for several purposes like color cast corrections, framing, etc.
• MailChimp: Pictaculous
  Generate a color palette from PNG, JPG or GIF image/photo. Receive color suggestions, download Photoshop swatches (.ACO)
• Jeff Minard: Color Palette Generator
  Generate a color palette based on an image.
• Jeremy Taylor: Color Palette FX
  Color Palette FX is a color tool for print and web design that creates color palettes from photos.
• Veign: Whats Its Color
  Whats its color is an image-color processing utility that will evaluate an image and give you the image's primary and complementary dominant colors of an image, how many visually unique colors are in an image, and the top ten visually unique colors in an image.
• wiseGEEK: How can I Find the Average Color of a Photograph?
  Many popular image-editing tools allow you to determine the average color of a small section of an image, but we couldn't find any that could calculate the average color of an entire photograph. Enter, the Average Color Tool.

• Nikon: The Story of Light and People
  • Creation & Light: Artists who painted masterpieces of “light”
    • Viewing Masterpieces through the eyes of science » Figure 7
• 24 ways
  • Photographic Palettes
    Dave Shea casts a critical eye over the process of choosing a colour palette — in particular, techniques for picking tones from a photograph. As Santa found one foggy Christmas eve, choice of colour can be absolutely critical to success.
• Webdesigner Depot
  • How to Get a Professional Look With Color
    » Analyze your color scheme with the Photoshop “squint” test
• IDimager Resource Repository
  • Sort By Average Color
    This script allows you to sort a collection based on their average color. The average color is a single color that is determined based on the overall appearence of the image.
  • Sort By Dominant Colo
    This script allows you to sort a collection based on their most dominant color. The dominant color is a single color that is determined based on the overall appearence of the image. It is the color that appears most prominently in the image.
• ITB CompuPhase
  • Quick colour averaging
    Computing the middle colour between two colours is not difficult. Doing it fast requires a few tricks. Calculating the average colour is a requirement of some of the scaling and image re-sampling techniques that will be published in the near future (both on this site and in magazine articles).
• mem0.com
  • Image based color palettes: Average Vs. Dominant Colors
• Jared Stanley
  • Getting the color from an image
• Andy Woodruff
  • Flickr as a paintbrush » Dominant color
• DevNetwork Forums
  • Determine dominant image color

• Software Studies: The Art of Dominant Color in Film
• Floppy Films: Oscar-nominated films 2009

marsh wrote:Hello W., it looks like the sample image in first post has been converted from animated gif to jpeg by website.