Question

i work now with GD library on PHP and i’m trying to get the pixel color name ,i mean : green , red , blue , etc…

i’m getting the color this way :

$rgb = ImageColorAt($image, $X, $y);
$r = ($rgb >> 16) & 0xFF ;
$g = ($rgb >> 8) & 0xFF;
$b = $rgb & 0xFF;

now , how can i find it this color is green light , dark blue , normal blue or red and etc..

Answer 1

you have to create an associative-array that maps value => colorname (or inverse).
fill this array with the data of this table: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors

then you can lookup the color names, that are available in CSS too. additionally you can add more, own, colornames