Does anyone know if it is possible to detect the “lightness” of an uploaded image using Ruby? I need to add border to those images that are too light, so they don’t bleed into a light background.
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Does anyone know if it is possible to detect the “lightness” of an uploaded image using Ruby? I need to add border to those images that are too light, so they don’t bleed into a light background.
You’ll probably end up using RMagick or a similar image manipulation library for this. First you have to decide which pixels you want to measure. Do you want the image as a whole, in which case it would make sense to average the colors of all the pixels and then compare it to some baseline lightness? Here’s an example of that: Is it possible to get the average image color with RMagick? Alternatively you could just average all the pixels within, say, five pixels of the edge. This would be a very similar operation.
Once you’ve got an average pixel you can (in RMagick) use
Pixel#to_hsla, which returns an array the third value of which is the HSL lightness and you can compare that against whatever threshold you choose for “light.”