what is best way to establish average rgb value for colour with noise ?

[Merlin3]

Hi,

created a circle selection and copied out a sample from the colour I wish to establish an average rgb value for, as its got subtle noise, so moving the pipette over it on 1 pixel sample sees rgb values altering a bit by a few units.

armed with this copy pasted sample to a new file, how do I turn it into a single uniform rgb value colour ?

If I gaussian blur it the edges start to encroach and centre goes pale. I have applied Gaussian blur a little but can still get varying values on 1 pixel sample although it has less visible 'noise'.

its only 15 pixels diameter. biggest sample I could take without getting spoilt parts with unwanted features.

Merlin

[pixxxelschubser · Accepted solution]

Hope, I understand you right.

Does Filter -> Blur -> Average helps you?

Works on the whole layer or in a selected area.

Or you can use the Eyedropper tool for setting the foreground color and coloring the area you wished.

[Chuck Uebele]

You can increase the size of the eye dropper so it averages the area better.

[Merlin3]

Hi, Thanks for replies,

eyedropper tool is odd though as it samples screen not image, so blur>average will be the method.

warning...any white surrounding the pasted in colour will et pulled inot the mixing process on blur > average, so crop it out first !

Merlin