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Count all unique colors in image


revnart

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Hey, do you have any idea how to count unique colors in image? some kind of script, plugin or idea?
Yes, I know I can use indexed color for images that have less than 256 colors, but I need to know if my image has more or less unique colors.
My base file uses all of 16,777,216 possible color, and after different transformations I need to calculate the loss of color.

I've found one plugin from:
link: http://www.users.cloud9.net/~gparet/photoshop/#counter
but it doesn't run on my machine.

Any ideas? Thanks for help :)

EDIT:
Just found one that is working, in case someone need here is the link:
http://telegraphics.com.au/sw/product/CountColours
 
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In "design" utility of this is hmm.. small but I needed to know how big is loss of colors after certain things you do in photoshop.

As a somehow useful information for people editing photographs in LAB mode: sRGB has much smaller gamut than LAB but when you convert image to LAB mode you throw away a lot of colors. If you convert it back to RGB you again throw away color data 🙂 so you have much much less colors than in original 😉

Of course during design of business cards etc. It's not so "important" but in photography probably a little 😊 but again I needed this not for my daily routine but for "research" ☺️
 

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