Purpose -The main aim of this paper is to propose a color-texture classification approach which uses color sensor information and texture features jointly. High accuracy, low noise sensitivity and low computational complexity are specified aims for our proposed approach. Design/methodology/approach -One of the efficient texture analysis operations is local binary patterns (LBP). The proposed approach includes two steps. First, a noise resistant version of color LBP is proposed to decrease it's sensitivity to noise. This step is evaluated based on combination of color sensor information using AND operation. In second step, a significant points selection (SPS) algorithm is proposed to select significant LBPs. This phase decreases final computational complexity along with increasing accuracy rate. Findings -The Proposed approach is evaluated using Vistex, Outex, and KTH-TIPS-2a data-sets. Our approach has been compared with some state-of-the-art methods. It is experimentally demonstrated that the proposed approach achieves highest accuracy. In two other experiments, result show low noise sensitivity and low computational complexity of the proposed approach in comparison with previous versions of LBP. Rotation invariant, multi-resolution, general usability are other advantages of our proposed approach. Originality/value -In the present paper, a new version of LBP is proposed originally, which is called Hybrid color local binary patterns (HCLBP). HCLBP can be used in many image processing applications to extract color/texture features jointly. Also, a significant point selection algorithm is proposed for the first time to select key points of images. results show that using SPS algorithm as preprocess phase, increases classification accuracy. Noise resistant power of proposed HCLBP is compared with previous LBP versions. Low computational complexity, rotation invariant, multi-resolution, and low noise sensitivity are main advantages of our proposed approach. Also, HCLBP operation is a general method which can be used in many other applications to describe images. The proposed significant points selection algorithm can be used in many other image processing applications to choose key points. The proposed approach can be adapted with output images obtained using every kinds of digital cameras such as single-sensor or three-sensor cameras.