Extract Dominant Colors and Handle HEIC/AVIF Images in Laravel 13.24

Laravel 13.24 adds dominantColor() to the Image API for extracting the primary color of an image, plus native support for HEIC and AVIF formats.

Extracting a dominant color for placeholders or UI backgrounds is now built directly into Laravel's Image API. Laravel 13.24 also adds native support for HEIC and AVIF uploads out of the box.

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Image;

$color = Image::read($path)->dominantColor();
// Returns hex string like '#8a6f4c'

• dominantColor() resizes to a single pixel internally and returns hex string
• Images with alpha channels return 8-digit hex (#rrggbbaa)
• HEIC/AVIF image formats are supported natively