How to isolate only one colour on image with PHP?

Question

Is it possible to leave (isolate) only one colour in image? Currently I'm interested in green:005d00

Answer 1

You could use gd's imagecolorat() function.
Just iterate over every pixel, check if it is the color you want, otherwise set it to black or white or whatever you want to do with it.

Here's a working example:

function colorEquals($rgb_color, $hex_color)
{
    $r = ($rgb_color >> 16) & 0xFF;
    $g = ($rgb_color >> 8) & 0xFF;
    $b = $rgb_color & 0xFF;


    list($hr, $hg, $hb) = sscanf($hex_color, '%2s%2s%2s');
    $hr = hexdec($hr);
    $hg = hexdec($hg);
    $hb = hexdec($hb);

    return $r == $hr && $g == $hg && $b == $hb;
}

$width = 300;
$height = 300;

// create 300x300 image
$img = imagecreatetruecolor($width, $height);
// fill grey
$color = imagecolorallocate($img, 127, 127, 127);
imagefill($img, 0, 0, $color);

// set a square of pixels to 005d00
$your_color = imagecolorallocate($img, 0, 93, 0);
imagefilledrectangle($img, 10, 10, 100, 100, $your_color);

$white = imagecolorallocate($img, 255, 255, 255);

for($x = 0; $x < $width; ++$x)
{
    for($y = 0; $y < $height; ++$y)
    {
        $color = imagecolorat($img, $x, $y);
        if(!colorEquals($color, '005d00'))
        {
            // set it to white
            imagesetpixel($img, $x, $y, $white);
        }
    }
}

// output
header('Content-type: image/png');
imagepng($img);