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This simple plugin was created in response to a request here.

It simply samples the entire image colour, and allows you to either:
- Display the RGB or grey values
- Set the foregound colour
- Set the background colour
- Add it to the current palette (if editable)

There is a toggle to sample just the layer, or the merged image.

It registers in the Colour menu as "Sample Average Colour..." and should work for RGB, indexed, or greyscale images.

UPDATE: Version 1.3 of the script fixes a bug that was introduced by a gimp bug fix in version 2.6.9.

-Rob A>

This script compliments my "Sample Gradient Along a Path" script and was originally developed to generate the gradients bundled here.  This script simply scales the image to be 1 px high and samples across it, so it only works correctly with horizontal gratent images. 

You can however create some interesting gradients with other images.  For example, an image that is 1/2 black and 1/2 white diagonally will creat a gratent that blends linearly from black to white!  read more »