# imagecolorat

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

imagecolorat — Get the index of the color of a pixel

### Description

int imagecolorat ( resource `$image` , int `$x` , int `$y` )

Returns the index of the color of the pixel at the specified location in the image specified by `image` .

If PHP is compiled against GD library 2.0 or higher and the image is a truecolor image, this function returns the RGB value of that pixel as integer. Use bitshifting and masking to access the distinct red, green and blue component values:

### Parameters

`image`

  An image resource, returned by one of the image creation functions, such as imagecreatetruecolor().

`x`

  x-coordinate of the point

`y`

  y-coordinate of the point

### Return Values

Returns the index of the color.

### Examples

Example#1 Access distinct RGB values

`<?php
$im = imagecreatefrompng("php.png");
$rgb = imagecolorat($im, 10, 15);
$r = ($rgb >> 16) & 0xFF;
$g = ($rgb >> 8) & 0xFF;
$b = $rgb & 0xFF;
?>`

The above example will output something similar to:

    int(119)
    int(123)
    int(180)

### See Also

- imagecolorset()
- imagecolorsforindex()