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is there a way to count the unique colors in an entire image ?

Forum|Forum|8 years ago
May 3, 2017
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hi

is there a way to count the unique colors in an entire image like a photo?

i know there is a plugin Color Counter Photoshop Stuff

but it doesn't work correctly under ps cc 2017 & 2015 and it can't read 16bit color images

i run w10 pro and there is irfanview that can do it , but i would like to do with photoshop

thanks

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Jeff Arola

Community Expert

Here is a Count Colors filter

http://telegraphics.com.au/sw/product/CountColours

JohnVoAuthor

Inspiring

hi

thanks does it work on 2017 to you?

Jeff Arola

Community Expert

Yes the Count Colors filter works here in photoshop cc 2017.1.1 running on a x64 windows 10.

http://telegraphics.com.au/sw/product/CountColours

The other color counter filter linked in your top post is 32 bits and if you running a 64 bit version of windows 10, then photoshop 2017 needs 64 bit filters.

D Fosse

Community Expert

it can't read 16bit color images

Good luck counting colors in a 16-bit image...

B

bzareenk

Inspiring

If there are less than 256, choosing image>mode>indexed color... will give you a count.

JohnVoAuthor

Inspiring

hi

no sadly they are more ,in this case there is no way?

thanks

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

What exactly are you trying to evaluate and to what good?

A Scripting solution is theoretically possible but if I remember correctly it would be impractically inefficient for all but extremely small images.

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