Dominant Color Extraction

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Extracts dominant colors from an image using a Python script. Specify the image path and optionally set the number of colors, quality, output format (hex, rgb, tuple, full), or get JSON output. Helpful for design work, generating color palettes, or programmatic extraction.

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Data & AIBeginner
806/2/2026
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#dominant-color#color-extraction#image-processing#color-palette

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Extracts dominant colors from an image and generates a color palette.

Strengths

  • Easy to use with a single command
  • Supports multiple output formats (hex, rgb, tuple, JSON)
  • Allows choosing the number of colors and extraction quality

Limitations

  • Requires the image to be accessible locally
  • Extraction quality depends on image complexity
  • Does not handle remote images
When to use it

When you need to quickly extract a color palette from an image for a design or development project.

When not to use it

If you require advanced color analysis with segmentation or pattern recognition algorithms.

Security analysis

Safe
Quality score90/100

The skill runs a local Python script to extract color information from an image file. It does not involve network access, external commands, or destructive operations. The allowed tools are limited to Bash (python) and Read, which are used in a safe manner.

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Examples

Extract dominant color from logo
What are the main colors in this logo? /path/to/logo.png
Generate a 6-color palette as hex
Extract 6 dominant colors from this image and show them as hex values: /path/to/photo.jpg
JSON output for programmatic use
Get the dominant colors from this image in JSON format: /path/to/image.png

name: dominant-color description: Extract dominant colors from an image. Use when the user wants to find the main colors in an image or generate a color palette. argument-hint: <image-path> [options] allowed-tools: Bash(python *), Read

Dominant Color Extraction

Extract dominant colors from an image file using the extract_colors.py script.

Script Usage

python ~/.claude/skills/dominant-color/scripts/extract_colors.py <image> [options]

Options

| Flag | Description | |------|-------------| | -n, --count N | Number of colors to extract (default: 5) | | -q, --quality 1-10 | Extraction quality, 1=best (default: 1) | | -f, --format FORMAT | Output format: hex, rgb, tuple, full | | --json | Output as JSON | | --dominant-only | Only output the dominant color |

Examples

# Basic usage
python script.py image.png

# Get 8 colors as hex values
python script.py image.jpg -n 8 -f hex

# JSON output for programmatic use
python script.py image.png --json

# Just the dominant color
python script.py image.png --dominant-only -f hex

Instructions

  1. Run the script with the image path provided by the user: $ARGUMENTS
  2. Present the extracted colors clearly
  3. If the user needs the colors for code, offer to format them as CSS variables, Tailwind config, or other formats
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