How to calculate the average rgb color values of a bitmap

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Published on 2009-07-01T10:24:55Z Indexed on 2010/05/07 2:28 UTC
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In my C# (3.5) application I need to get the average color values for the red, green and blue channels of a bitmap. Preferably without using an external library. Can this be done? If so, how? Thanks in advance.

Trying to make things a little more precise: Each pixel in the bitmap has a certain RGB color value. I'd like to get the average RGB values for all pixels in the image.

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