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I have one background texture that is a wood grain, and I have a menu hover background colour that I would like to match the overall tone of the texture as closely as possible. Using a tool such as ColorZilla, or something similar, can I get an 'average' colour of the texture?

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Not really programming related - belongs on superuser – ChrisF Oct 18 '09 at 18:43
This is web development dude, not use of a computer. – ProfKaos Oct 18 '09 at 19:35
@ProfKaos - you asked for a tool not how to write a program. That's the distinction between SO and SU. – ChrisF Oct 19 '09 at 22:25
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Most graphics packages allow resizing the image, with the required averaging out of the colours. So, resize the image to a single pixel, and 'pick' the colour that results.

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I don’t know about ColorZilla, but graphics software like Photoshop, Gimp, paint.net, etc. should all have a filter function that takes any image and computes the average color from all pixels.

Here is a website that does the same: http://www.wisegeek.com/how-can-i-find-the-average-color-in-a-photograph.htm

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I think there's an average filter in photoshop, under the blur category or something. You can color pick the resulting color to find out what it is.

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