Sameer Borate has posted a simple method for creating a color palette from a given image using just PHP and GD.

In the previous post we saw how we can generate a screenshot from a url. In this post we will see how we can create a color palette of the screenshot (or any other image for that matter) using PHP and GD. This can be useful if you need to quickly get the color scheme of a website or a image. Below are a few example images and their palettes generated using the program.

With the help of his code it's as easy as a call on a GetMostCommonColors object (get_color) to return the hex codes for the values found most. Also included in the post is a sample snippet showing how to pull the details from the file and output it in a grid similar to this.